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  • caption: Georgia O'Keeffe's "Music Pink and Blue No. 1"
    Arts & Life

    Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks

    The rapidly evolving public health situation surrounding the novel Corona virus hits at the heart of local arts organizations. They depend on audience attendance---and ticket purchases—for a significant slice of their annual budgets. Most local arts groups say the show will go on-for now. But check before you decide to head out. Here are a couple of weekend highlights.

  • caption: Seattle Art Museum's Chiyo Ishikawa
    Arts & Life

    Seattle Art Museum's Chiyo Ishikawa will step down

    Chiyo Ishikawa has organized some blockbuster shows during her 30 years at Seattle Art Museum; from a rare showing of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester, to an exhibition from the Picasso Museum in Paris. Now the museums’ chief curator says it’s time to pass the baton to the next generation.

  • caption: University of Washington dance students in Alethea Alexander's "Seagulls"
    Arts & Life

    Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks

    This weekend people around the world celebrate the lunar new year; in China, it’s the start of the Year of the Rat. Here in the Pacific Northwest you can observe the holiday at a number of gatherings. KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman offers these suggestions for new year festivities plus a few other weekend cultural offerings.