More than 400 people called or wrote in to The Seattle Times to answer what they look forward to doing once the world gets back to a more pre-pandemic normal life, including me. Responses hit the streets today in the Sunday edition. What are you most looking forward to?

AFTER LEARNING OF ARTIST NADIA Plesner’s drawing Simple Living, which prominently features a Louis Vuitton handbag, the company sued her. The juxtaposition of symbols of incredible wealth beside extreme poverty is a staple of her work. Mass media inspires her. Are children who happen to be refugees more important than […]

So what is actually happening to your brain when you get ‘Zoom fatigue’? “You’ve heard the complaints, and you may have even experienced it yourself: the exhaustion that comes from too much videoconferencing. But, if traditional face-to-face meetings also make us yawn, then what is about the digital version that […]

HOW CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE ARTS CAN DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE “An organization called Path with Art in Seattle, Washington, offers a small case study of how civic engagement through the arts can drive social change. Started in 2008 by a group of women who had experienced the healing power of […]

After her mural at Sound Transit’s Federal Way Extension Link was slashed by vandals — twice — artist Lauren Iida decided to use the repairs to make a statement. Employing a traditional Japanese visible mending technique called Kintsugi, the damage is acknowledged, repairs are highlighted, and the art becomes something […]

I have been looking through archived newsletters and came across this watercolor that I just adore. The detail in the plastic! The use of negative space. I remember being mesmerized when it was on display during a gallery show, but I cannot remember who the artist is. If you know, […]

An art collecting couple recently gifted more than a dozen 20th-century abstract expressionist and European masterworks, collectively worth about $400 million, to the Seattle Art Museum. SAM plans on opening the collection to the public in October. Included are works by Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, […]

Artist Gizem Vural, who is from Istanbul and lives in New York City, is featured in the Spring 2021 issue of Audubon magazine. She has been busy creating images of blue jays. The cobalt blue plumage wooed her. “This specific hue that the blue jay has mesmerized me.” “For inspiration, […]

In a new essay for Harper’s Magazine honoring Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese argues that streaming services have “systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced” the art of cinema by turning films into “content.” He distinguishes between human curation that highlights particularly meaningful works of art and algorithms that “treat the viewer […]

I love this site. Artists create their own versions of movie posters.