ACT Theatre noted on their blog on 3/31/11 that Pinter Fortnightly will be canceled due to the death of Seattle Actor Mark Chamberlin. A memorial service will be held tonight instead of original scheduling.
Pinter Fortnightly, Monday evening readings of works by the late Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter, performed by some of Seattle’s favorite local actors, was to kick off tonight with The Birthday Party. There is no word on if The Birthday Party will be rescheduled. The next schedule Pinter Fortnightly will take place on April 18th, with …

Ever spend an afternoon looking through your old box of schoolwork your mom and/or dad kept around? You get a kick out of it remembering how awe.some. it was back when you made it. Well, there is a place you can go and see other highschoolers glory work–only theirs is actually chosen by super-qualified judges to be published and promoted by the Alliance of Young Artists and Writers, for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

The exhibition is called ART.WRITE.NOW, and is featured at SAM through April 24th 2011.

In celebration and honor of the late Joe Deal, Henry Art gallery exhibits a collection of his work and the work of his peers, titled “Views of the Altered Landscape”. The exhibit opened this past December, just 6 months after Deal’s death. Deal was a landscape photographer, who was particularly interested in the different shapes it could take at the hands of humans.

For those that have seen the lines of hundreds of attractive individuals, possibly in wigs, tuxes, or short skirts on First and University, you might still be wondering what sort of mischief was missed. Seattle Art Museum throws a quarterly party, one of Seattle’s best at that, dubbed SAM Remix. On Friday, March 11th, SAM will open its doors to young and old for yet another sold-out SAM Remix party.
For the uneducated, it’s one of the few opportunities to see SAM at night full of dancing smiles with drinks in …

The 1994 Danish TV show “The Kingdom,” otherwise known as “Ringet,” has been described as a Z-grade horror film, a starkly black comedy, and a directorial sequel to “Twin Peaks.” Never heard of it? Well, now’s your chance! SIFF Cinema in Seattle Center will be showing a marathon of the entire  single-season series this Sunday, March 13. It’s only going to set you back $20, and it’s going to be awesome!
The series is described as being set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, the city and country’s main hospital, nicknamed “Riget”. The …

Flat & Bright promises to be a multimedia installation of the latest collaborative work from local artists Julie Alpert and Andy Arkley at SOIL Gallery. The show will include animation with original music, site-specific installation, flashing lights and giant fold-up plywood characters.

Linda Jo Nazarenus is a painter that focuses on Southwest subjects of Americana. The brightly colored, detailed paintings of Nazarenus attest to the dominance of nature in the vast unpopulated areas of the Southwestern United States, while also inspiring the viewer to think of the deep history and culture that has been established in the same landscape.

This month Davidson Galleries celebrates women in art, or rather women who make art. Davidson Galleries is featuring prints by women from 1800 to 2010.” Historically, social roles and an absence of training in the arts excluded many women from making prints. However, by the beginning of the 19th century more women began to take up printmaking as a source of income and as an outlet for personal expression” (Davidson Galleries).

From the very beginning, the KURT exhibit brings viewers face-to-face with its subject as he was most commonly presented by the media: the exhibit opens with a series of seven photos from Charles Peterson, showing an obviously intoxicated Kurt Cobain in the process of falling over and upsetting a drum set. Another photo of a more flamboyantly-dressed Cobain, taken at Seattle’s Pier 48 during the 1993 broadcast of MTV’s Live and Loud event, reminds us of the man as the media typically presented him. I’m surrounded by middle school students …

If you only have time to visit one art gallery on first Thursdays, make it the Seattle Art Museum. The SAM has two, sometimes two and a half floors of fascinating art, and this month is no exception. It’s Warhol and Cobain in July; it’s hard to describe Warhol’s work in print, as the man was just so eccentricly brilliant at times, when he wasn’t being ridiculous. Both of these sides are on display in his exhibit. In contrast, Cobain is much more of a love letter to the man’s life, with all of the art having a distinct feel towards the reverent, making the juxtapositions of the two exhibits very interesting, particularly considering Warhol’s views on fame…

I originally went to the Seattle Asian Art Museum because I had been told that there was a display of Japanese woodblock prints which is one of my personal favorite styles of art. While the SAAM isn’t usually a stop on most art walks, due to its location up on Capitol Hill (and consequently, away from the action), I would encourage you to visit. Although the woodblock exhibit ends on the 4th of July, there are plenty of other exhibits to see, particularly in the new acquisitions section. So let’s talk about some of them, shall we?