Seattle Art Museum

What does it feel like to be in the room with $100 million? You can find out soon. The most expensive piece of American artwork ever sold at auction — a…

Seattle’s reputation as a vibrant, progressive, culturally relevant city is the product of decades of vision and growth. Many Seattleites participated in…

For the past eight years, visitors to the downtown Seattle Art Museum have been greeted by nine white Ford Taurus cars that hang from the ceiling of SAM’s…

Was Pierre-Auguste Renoir a “far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed” who influenced a generation of avant-garde artists, or was he…

Get ready for the next Front Row Center with Marcie Sillman!Join KUOW and fellow listeners at the Seattle Art Museum on July 23 in the Nordstrom Lecture…

Read this description, then imagine the art:It’s a large ceramic jar, created in the 12th century by the Anasazi people who lived in the Southwest and the…

Marcie Sillman talks with Chiyo Ishikawa, deputy director for art and curator of European painting and sculpture at the Seattle Art Museum, about the…

When you walk into Seattle Art Museum’s Pop Art exhibition, Pop Departures, artist Roy Lichtenstein’s red, yellow and blue paintings seem to explode off…

Seattle Art Museum's waterfront Olympic Sculpture Park was still a work in progress when SAM Education Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont arrived here in…

Seattle Art Museum contemporary and modern art curator Catharina Manchanda calls Joan Miró one of the great avant-garde artists of the 20th century. But…