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Friday, January 18, 2013

The True Classic/New Classic of Seattle Art

Posted by on Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM

Whats glowing behind that doorway at the Frye?
  • Whats glowing behind that doorway at the Frye?

...This is! Its a light sculpture by Lilienthal|Zamora, installed at the Frye in December, halfway through the run of Mw. Is it a stage set? An installation after the late California artist Michael Asher, who once built a physical archive of every exhibition ever held inside a certain museum?

This is the final weekend of Moment Magnitude (Mw), the Frye Art Museum's experimental exhibition that takes stock of local culture with videos, photographs, sculptures, opera rehearsals, dance performances, music videos, the inaugural performances of new musical compositions, drawings, installations, ceramics, environmental art, writings, and documentations of early performance art. I wrote about it in October:

Though its organizers would cringe at the "b" word, Mw is not unlike a biennial. It puts forward a case about Seattle—that its current aesthetic is fundamentally hybrid. It wants to consider what's great here and now, whether or not it fits the museum mold—huzzah—even if the wall labels are woolly. ...

...it's unusual in that it's a truly connective group show without a topical theme. You have to spend a little time, but the connections are worth it.

The more fixed art—what's in the galleries—is an unprecedented mix of new, new-classic (pieces seen recently and loved), and true classic Seattle.

The Peoples Grand Opera
  • The People's Grand Opera
Happenings have been ongoing; it's not a static show. On Sunday at 3, the writer Rebecca Brown will give a rousing closing walkthrough. Recommended. Before that, at 1:30 on Sunday, there'll be a performance of The People's Grand Opera—a project I'm excited to see, created and with original songs by Sara Edwards (based on the writings of Walt Whitman) and including 40 community singers and sets by NKO. The People's Grand Opera also has an open rehearsal at the museum from 2 to 4 pm Saturday. Seeing work in progress has been a major source of Mw's pleasure for me.

Another new and recently added piece you don't want to miss is the sonic portrait of the doomed housing project Yesler Terrace, created by teenagers who live there in conjunction with the artists Tad Hirsch and Laura O'Quin. Press the little red buttons on these handsome boxes to hear the mesmerizing sounds of people talking, singing, having their hair done, just living.

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Dr_Awesome 1
I am fascinated by light and art installations using light (natural or technology-based). That installation is wonderful.

Do not forget to look up too- the craftsmanship and skill showing in the hundreds and hundreds of carefully labeled and neatly installed wires is amazing. Some artists dont grasp or use technology well. A broken or malfunctioning work is a sad thing. This piece was stunning in concept, size, and execution.
Posted by Dr_Awesome on January 18, 2013 at 1:15 PM
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I am looking forward to seeing it. I love how much it looks like their 3d model.
Posted by timmiche on January 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM
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Finally over with. That moment maggggg went on for way too long.
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Posted by thang on May 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM
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deborah

i am giving this testimony cos l am happy My name is mrs. Deborah Collins from Houston,taxes.i never believed in love spells or magic until i met this spell caster once. when i went to Africa in April 28th this year on a business summit. i ment a man called dr. Atakpo.He is powerful he could help you cast a spells to bring back my love’s gone,misbehaving lover looking for some one to love you, bring back lost money and magic money spell or spell for a good job.i’m now happy & a living testimony cos the man i had wanted to marry left me 3 weeks before our wedding and my life was upside down cos our relationship has been on for 2 years… i really loved him, but his mother was against me and he had no good paying job. so when i met this spell caster, i told him what happened and explained the situation of things to him..at first i was undecided,skeptical and doubtful, but i just gave it a try. and in 6 days when i returned to taxes, my boyfriend (is now my husband ) he called me by himself and came to me apologizing that everything had been settled with his mom and family and he got a new job interview so we should get married..i didn’t believe it cos the spell caster only asked for my name and my boyfriends name and all i wanted him to do… well we are happily married now and we are expecting our little kid,and my husband also got a new job and our lives became much better. in case anyone needs the spell caster for some help, email address atakpotemble@yahoo.com Great Atakpo i thank you very much thank you in 1000000 times.. if not you i would have been losted and wasted thank you. please make sure you contact him for any financial difficulties okay.. What a powerful man such as Dr Atakpo.. he is so much powerful..\\ email him for any difficulties.. atakpotemble@yahoo.com

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Posted by jennifer6 on May 21, 2013 at 2:12 AM

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