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Jen Graves

Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, at places like Cornish College of the Arts and Centrum. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 14 years.

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  • Suggests

    Stroke of Genius

    There are several layers of good in Stroke of Genius: One, it’s a slide show at dusk in the gardens of the James and Janie Washington Cultural Center...
    Posted on 08/22/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘12 Hands 60 Toes’

    The best part of the Museum of Glass in Tacoma is its working hot shop, which attracts visiting artists who deserve the top billing they get.
    Posted on 08/15/2012
  • Visual Art

    Underclass Zoo

    Noah Davis Paints the Jerry Springer and Maury Povich Shows
    Posted on 08/15/2012
  • Suggests

    SAM Remix

    Once every summer, there’s a line around the block to get into SAM Remix at the Olympic Sculpture Park, and with good reason: When else does Seattle party around art until midnight outdoors?
    Posted on 08/08/2012
  • Visual Art

    Art for Eye Athletes

    Ben Beres Is a Printmaking Fiend
    Posted on 08/08/2012
  • Visual Art

    I Love What You've Done with Your Spaceship!

    Matthew Offenbacher Improves the Lives of Astronauts (and Others) at SOIL
    Posted on 08/08/2012
  • The Sweets Issue

    Eating the Emerald City Volcano: Mount Rainier on Fire

    Eating the Emerald City Volcano: Mount Rainier on Fire
    Posted on 08/08/2012
  • Suggests

    Slideluck Potshow

    It started 12 years ago: a slide show narrated by local artists, known and unknown, in fashion or design or photography or painting or video or whatever you can think of...
    Posted on 08/01/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Farewell, My Queen’

    Marie Antoinette’s critics, toward the end of her life, didn’t just call her rich and clueless—they hissed that she was an Austrian lesbian slut.
    Posted on 08/01/2012
  • Visual Art

    Solar Power

    Sun Worshipers and Seattle's Unrequited Love for the Sun
    Posted on 08/01/2012
  • Film

    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: Always Interesting, Never Insightful

    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: Always Interesting, Never Insightful
    Posted on 08/01/2012
  • Suggests

    Jeremy Gregory

    For a year, Jeremy Gregory has been furiously making posable puppets out of found materials—while they seem quite alive, they do not seem quite healthy.
    Posted on 07/25/2012
  • Visual Art

    Time, Stuff, and Love

    The Fresh Mix of Art and Vinyl at the Henry
    Posted on 07/25/2012
  • Film

    Let Them Eat Ladycake

    Farewell, My Queen: The Lesbionic Final Days of Marie Antoinette
    Posted on 07/25/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl’

    Any exhibition of art inspired by vinyl records could easily be nostalgic or dudey.
    Posted on 07/18/2012
  • Visual Art

    Smart Museum

    SAM’s New Director Is a Star
    Posted on 07/18/2012
  • Visual Art

    Money, Maleness, and Fear

    Mike Simi's Vague Menace
    Posted on 07/18/2012
  • Film

    Trishna: A Brutal Thomas Hardy Reboot in Mumbai

    Trishna: A Brutal Thomas Hardy Reboot in Mumbai
    Posted on 07/18/2012
  • Block Party

    Adding Visuals to the Audio

    For the First Time Ever, There's Art at Capitol Hill Block Party
    Posted on 07/18/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘A Thin Thread’

    Rumi Koshino and Mugi Takei take the instability of the world and enshrine it in faint watercolor paintings that draw you in to see better or sculptures made of delicate materials you could tear.
    Posted on 07/11/2012

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