By the end of last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asking people to “please chill” on making images with his company’s updated AI image generator. “Our team needs sleep,”… Read More
Grant Hinkson spent almost nine years at Amazon, leading design engineering within the company’s Devices and Services Design Group. He left a little over a year ago to launch his… Read More
In the same building where software engineers labor in front of computers to write code and build products, artists are poised in front of easels, painting portraits and landscapes. On… Read More
Another museum is coming to downtown Seattle with the hopes of attracting visitors with a mix of interactive rooms and displays. Museum of Illusions, a global attraction with more than… Read More
Mahee Chandrasekhar, a 9th grader at Redmond High School in Redmond, Wash., is the Washington state winner in the 16th annual “Doodle for Google” contest. Mahee, 15, is one of 55… Read More
A group of elementary and middle school students from districts east of Seattle are working together on a project to help visually impaired people experience paintings in museums through tactile… Read More
WNDR Museum, an interactive, tech-infused art experience near the waterfront in downtown Seattle, has ceased operations eight months after opening. A statement about the abrupt closure is posted on the… Read More
Gage Academy of Art, a longtime school located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, is moving to a modern facility at the base of an Amazon headquarters tower next year —… Read More
A major new exhibition and multi-year initiative celebrating the life and work of artist Alexander Calder has opened at Seattle Art Museum, with a variety of colorful mobiles, sculptures and… Read More
In a building that used to be a grocery store in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood this week, the future of art and technology converged in a display and discussion around… Read More
Seattle’s famous Fremont Troll and the Seattle Kraken’s blue-haired mascot Buoy are going to get some company this summer when six giant hand-built Nordic troll characters come to Seattle and… Read More
Like a lot of kids, Rebecca Wu has been doodling for quite some time. Her dad said she first started making art as a toddler, when she was able to… Read More
Rebecca Wu is one step away from gaining Google homepage fame — and some serious cash. Rebecca, a student at the International School in Bellevue, Wash., has reached the final… Read More
A student at the International School in Bellevue, Wash., is among the finalists in the Doodle for Google contest, and if her artwork receives enough votes it could end up… Read More
Former Microsoft President Jon Shirley and his wife Kim are gifting a significant collection of works by sculptor Alexander Calder to the Seattle Art Museum. The Shirley Family Calder Collection… Read More
Friends and family of the late Seattle artist Jon Strongbow gathered for a memorial panel earlier this month at Emerald City Comic Con to tell stories about one of the… Read More
If you’ve been wondering what it will take to entice more people to visit downtown Seattle, it might just be WNDR. The new high-tech art museum opened Wednesday along the… Read More
The sale of the private art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen shattered auction records on Wednesday night, as Christie’s New York reeled in more than $1.5 billion… Read More
With cranes still swinging overhead and construction continuing on the Spring District in Bellevue, Wash., Meta officially threw open the doors Tuesday on its own offices at the sprawling development.… Read More
James Gwertzman has always been a “tinkerer.” He has early memories of soldering together an AM radio kit with his dad. He dreamed as a kid about going into visual… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s extensive private collection of art, valued at more than $1 billion, will be sold by Christie’s in what the auction house is calling the “largest and… Read More
Legendary auction house Christie’s got a front-row seat to the NFT craze. In March 2021, the 256-year-old art merchant facilitated the sale of a collage of the first 5,000 pieces… Read More
Well before cryptocurrencies and NFTs began to fizzle this spring, Carly Rector was already sour on their use for digital art sales. Rector, who is herself a digital artist and… Read More
Greg Lundgren called it a “rough week.” The longtime artist, arts advocate and current director of Seattle’s Museum of Museums was clearly fatigued from the backlash he’d been navigating after… Read More
Plans for a Seattle art exhibition that would have showcased work by employees of Amazon and Microsoft have been called off after backlash from members of the city’s arts community… Read More
Art lovers curious about what to make of the craze around NFTs and the rush to collect such digital assets will have a physical museum to visit in Seattle to… Read More
Rudy Willingham, the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil Nas X to release TikTok’s first-ever NFT. Willingham has 4… Read More
A new art project being unveiled in Seattle today is part of an effort by Facebook and others to promote the importance of COVID-19 vaccines. The Community Vaccination Art Program… Read More
A little more than a month after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took a rocket ride, his Blue Origin space venture sent another New Shepard suborbital spaceship to the final frontier… Read More
Maybe it’s time to ditch the beach backdrop. Everyone at work knows, after more than a year of this, that you’re in your bedroom for the latest video-conference call. Microsoft… Read More
