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👀 There's a new addition to our Porcelain Room! Created by contemporary artist Diego Cibelli, "Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne Enchantée" is a site-specific response to the iconic room's evocative ceiling fresco, "The Triumph of Valor Over Time" (ca. 1757) by Giovanni Tiepolo. Learn more about this work and take an up-close look at its astonishingly intricate details now at SAM! https://lnkd.in/gXjFHhMd [📸 Alborz Kamalizad]

🌈 TWO WEEKS TO GO! With "Anida Yoeu Ali: Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence" on view for only two more weeks at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, we're throwing it back to the beginning of June when Anida Yoeu Ali and her rainbow brigade of chadoras took to the streets to interact and engage with Seattleites across the city. In this reimagined iteration of "The Red Chador," titled "The Red Chador: Afterlife," Ali lead the chadoras in a dazzling procession that reclaimed the gaze of the Muslim woman from the rising threat of both Islamophobia and homophobia. Joining Ali for this performance were Selma Al-Aswad, Sabreen Akhter, Nisreen El-Saadoun, Hiba Jameel, Soraya Sultan Meer, and Yireidi Valencia-Martinez. Get an up-close look at Ali's dazzling sequined chadoras and more of her large-scale performance works through Sunday, July 7—reserve your tickets now! visitsam.org/ali

Playfully irrelevant, intentionally weird, and seriously funny—welcome to the world of "Poke in the Eye" at SAM! Now on #SAMBlog, get an inside look at the newest exhibition to take over our fourth floor galleries, featuring the vibrant and eclectic artworks by Pacific Northwest artists from the 1960s to today. https://lnkd.in/gAtTD6yP

👋 Meet Scott Stulen! Following an extensive eight-month search, we're thrilled to announce Scott as the next Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum. Scott, an innovative leader renowned for his dynamic vision and commitment to community engagement, will officially begin his new role at SAM later this August. Read more about this exciting news on #SAMBlog! https://lnkd.in/gq5mfVTF

With "Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture" opening last week, the exhibition is getting tons of press! Read the newest edition of Muse/News to find out what critics from 425 Magazine, SEAtoday, and KING 5 Media Group's Evening and New Day NW had to say about this homegrown SAM exhibition—it's now on #SAMBlog! https://lnkd.in/gStc3CCp

Jeffrey Gibson is an artist "in-between": between cultures, between aesthetics, and between normative gender expectations. In his artwork, Gibson foregrounds his Indigenous, queer identity, often with bold colors and materials that make his personal history and intentions undeniable. 🏳️🌈 Our Pride celebrations continue on #SAMBlog with a new essay by Nicole Block, SAM Collections Associate. In it, Nicole reflects on Gibson's identity expression as seen in "Between Rabbit and Fox," on view in "American Art: The Stories We Carry." Read it now! https://lnkd.in/gPRUQkVV

With his usual artistic materials in short supply at the height of World War II, Alexander Calder turned to wood and wire to create a new series of sculptures. In 1943, James Johnson Sweeney and Marcel Duchamp, who were in the midst of curating a major retrospective of Calder’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, proposed calling these new sculptural works ‘Constellations.’ Check out #SAMBlog now to explore Calder’s constellations as part of the free smartphone tour of “Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection” at SAM. https://lnkd.in/gg9yVwZ8

🎬 Lights, camera, action! Carrie Dedon, SAM Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, recently appeared on New Day NW to share how she curated SAM's newest exhibition "Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture." Watch the interview now! https://lnkd.in/gGQWRwW4

It's opening day of "Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture" at SAM! A reclining boar, an unflushed toilet, a turkey-shaped Airstream, and a pile of dirty dishes—the artworks in Poke in the Eye are as eccentric as they are varied. This SAM-organized exhibition celebrates the aesthetic practices that emerged across the West Coast in the 1960s and ’70s. These artists used traditional craft techniques and bold color, centered figuration and narrative, and often employed an irreverent sense of humor. Get tickets to see this homegrown exhibition of eclectic artworks—it's now on view! visitsam.org/pokeintheeye [📸 L. Fried]