I'm one of those people who always reads the labels in art museums. And some art has become memorable , first for the experience of...

Question: is all art inherently political? Here’s one way to think about contemporary art: it’s an expression of how artists interact...

Having learned a few years ago that my father worked on and witnessed atomic bomb tests on Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the mid-1950’s,...

It’s been said before (and more explicitly), but I f-ing love science! A scientist can envision many peculiar worlds; not only the one we...

Remember when your definition of “old” kept changing as you grew from a child, through adolescence, through your 20’s, 40’s and so on? I...

Symbols are powerful because they’re a shortcut to the brain, to the soul. Few are as powerfully evocative in the modern western world than

Black Rain has become a metaphor in Japan for the atomic bomb and its aftermath. Hibakusha testimony is a blunt reminder on this horrific 73

Awareness is creeping in that the Alaskan Way viaduct will be leveled sometime this year, another surge in the great Seattle overhaul;...

It’s not hard to be making art in a city like Seattle, where the arts are fairly hopping, artists throw open their doors, there’s no...

I’m always curious about what inspires and sparks an artist. Personally, I find it hard not to be provoked by what’s going on in the...