Art
April 23, 2013 | by Amanda Manitach

Honey, please!

Remember back when Regina wrote? Though I liked her sharp-witted, purple prose, one of the things I didn’t especially like about her reviews was the side-by-side, sweeping comparisons she’d often throw out. “Look how this artist’s thing looks like this other artist’s thing! They both put a rabbit...

Events

February 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

The Art of Video Games at EMP

Putting video games in a museum is a potentially stifling move on par with putting rock ’n’ roll in a museum. Fortunately, EMP’s opening night gala for The Art of...
February 26, 2013 | by Rachel Shimp

Talk with Your Hands

“I’ve always loved hands. I’ve tattooed them all over my body,” says artist, tattooist and musician Shannon Perry. “We use them to make art, music, and to touch the...
February 25, 2013 | by Amanda Manitach

An Interrogation

Last call Thursday night at Knee High Stocking Company and Hasan Elahi is drinking something smolderingly amber-colored from a martini glass—I think with rye, punt...
February 18, 2013 | by Amanda Manitach

Love in the Air

On Feb 16, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Amanda Manitach wrote: Hi Matthew! I don't know you much and was wondering if you'd fancy a drink, to hang out sometime and talk art...
February 12, 2013 | by Leah Baltus

Fechin and Chambers at the Frye

Last weekend the Frye Art Museum opened a trifecta of exhibitions—three new shows driven by overlapping ideas about art and communities. The first is a labor of...
February 11, 2013 | by Amanda Manitach

Plain Old Magic

My great-grandmother was a water witch. Farmers in Ohio paid her to run around with a stick from a cherry tree and find buried water. Supposedly dowsing is an...
February 10, 2013 | by Nate Watters

Lions Roam These Streets: Lunar New Year 2013

Feb. 9 marked the Lunar New Year—the year of the snake. A portion of King Street in the International District was shutdown to make way for dance performances,...