Titanic: The Exhibition Titanic: The Exhibition made its way to Seattle in October 2024. Prior to its Seattle debut, the exhibit was experienced by over 35 million people at its permanent locations in Las Vegas and Orlando, as well as a variety of cities across the United States, England, and Canada. This exhibit goes beyond the display of…
Rainier Avenue Radio For the entire month of February, Rainier Avenue Radio, now operating from the Columbia City Theater, will be presenting a museum dedicated to sharing Seattle’s Black history. The “Call to Conscience” museum will house 14 installations honoring Black History Month, including those by the Hendrix Family, the Royal Esquire Club, and the Black Heritage Society….
Sarah Wheeler | The Seattle Collegian “Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles paints ambiguous figures who stretch, intertwine, and merge in and with their surroundings, their bodies subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world, but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm.” That is the greeting I received when entering the exhibit at the Frye Art Museum, the one that prepared me very little for what I was about to experience—which is the point, I realized, because what I experienced was a transcendence from my own self, and my world became acrylic, and colorful, and full of grief.
Tássia Almeida Do you know which word was chosen by the Collins Dictionary as the most searched word in 2021? NFT is the answer. In November 2021, the Collins Dictionary announced that the term “NFT” (the abbreviation for non-fungible token) saw an 11,000% growth in usage last year and thus won the title as the 2021 “Word…
Ana Bungag | The Seattle Collegian Last weekend, I went to the Museum of Museums (MoM) for the first time. Without any idea what exhibits they have displayed, the experience left me feeling surprised and enamored. From adorable doodles of cats to fascinatingly decorated bathrooms, the museum is packed with unexpected and interactive art. For this photo essay, I will be…
Victoria Winter | The Seattle Collegian There’s so much trust that we put in strangers. Driving, eating, shopping — these all require a roll of the dice, a little faith in the stranger next to you. But what about the carousel of foreign bodies rotating around the perimeter of a room, focused only on the boundaries of a frame? Vulnerability stares…
Joshua Scott | The Seattle Collegian Last May, Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese art collector, purchased Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled” (1982) for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction. Maezawa’s purchase made “Untitled” the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction by an American. It also became the highest priced art by an African–American. It is sixth in the world for most expensive…