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At Seattle Asian Art Museum, world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei shows his massive toy-brick homage to the impressionist painter.
Brangien Davis is the arts and culture editor at Cascade PBS, where she writes the weekly https://crosscut.com/artsea
At Seattle Asian Art Museum, world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei shows his massive toy-brick homage to the impressionist painter.
Plus, more big moves in Northwest arts and culture, including shifts at Seattle University, The 5th Avenue Theater and Pacific Science Center.
With bonsai treehouses, a wooden womb, angelic paintings and an astrological symphony, Seattle arts events provide an escape from the headline churn.
Shows at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and National Nordic Museum take a pointillist approach to telling timely stories.
Plus, a ballet that swarms with bees, the Sea Slug Animation Festival, a sad but soft zebra and other artistic escape routes.