Some State Lawmakers Want To Remove Seattle’s Lenin Statue. But It’s On Private Property

By Marcie Sillman
The statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. CREDIT: FLICKR PHOTO/MARTIN DEUTSCH
While some art lovers look down their noses at the monument to children’s television icon J. P. Patches, the replica of a rocket and other sculptures, Fremont’s public art has a bevy of defenders.But a group of state lawmakers is not among them. If they have their way, one of Fremont’s signature artworks, the 16-foot-tall statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, Read More

In A World Full Of Surveillance, This Artist Stares Back

By PBS Newshour
When artist Trevor Paglen looks up at the night sky, there's beauty and wonder, but also a planet completely transformed by humans into a "landscape of surveillance." His new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Sites Unseen,” offers a new way to look at very familiar landscapes. Jeffrey Brown reports on Paglen’s latest obsession: how artificial intelligence Read More

Moscow Woodworker

By McKayla Fox
Moscow Woodworker Local Moscow artist, Kristin LeVier, discusses her passion for creating flowing, life-like sculptures out of wood. Full Transcript As an undergraduate, I studied Molecular biology and biochemistry. But I always wanted to be an artist and a scientist. My name is Kristin Levier and I’m an artist, a sculptor and I live in… Read More

David Byrne Presents Found Sound Installation

By Sueann Ramella
  The Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. PHOTO BY NIGEL CHADWICK / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Did you know London has a tempo of 122.86 beats per minute? So says musician David Byrne, of Talking Heads and solo career fame. Byrne’s new sound installation , titled “Get It Away,” builds a song around sampled… Read More
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