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This weekend is packed with art events, and don’t think it stops with the happenings in Pioneer Square: Satellite event Superfine Art Fair is also happening now through Sunday, July 30 in Belltown's Block 41. Follow up an afternoon at SAF with an evening at Superfine. With Miami-based award-winning musical acts on Friday evening, a Night Market on Saturday, art installations, and over 50 local and global artists there's a lot to take in. Thanks to their partnership, Superfine VIPs get access to Seattle Art Fair's public hours for FREE! Use the code EMERALDCITY for 30% off your ticket to the fair. Link in stories.



📸 courtesy of Superfine

It’s in so that means it is time to ! Some selections from a gorgeous and haunting body of work by Justin Duffus at to start the evening. See ya out there,

It’s World AIDS Day: 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the AIDS epidemic, and Gay City, The AMP, and community organizers are hosting a commemoration by Cal Anderson Park this afternoon. A vigil begins at 4:30 by the wonderful centerpiece sculpture by in the AIDS Memorial Pathway.

🌈☄️ Julie Himel at Foster/White giving us big, gorgeous, painterly canvases art 🖼 that each have a bit of a story to tell, sometimes in their vivid palettes, sometimes in a strange glow that permeates the scene, and—in this example—an impasto coup de grace that feels a little hopeful/apocalyptic 💥 Happy art walking!

We are SO excited for the 💎 𝕀𝕟 ℂ𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕕 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖 💎 VIP opening tomorrow at curated by 🌟 🌟 and we’re even more excited for art lovers in Seattle to get a look for themselves at the public opening Friday, October 8. 🎉💃🕺🏽🎨 This promises to be an absolutely stellar collection of work by young, exciting artists from around the country. 🤩 Get hyped.

Works by artists Diana Al-Hadid, Derrick Adams, and Barbara Earl Thomas at the Henry Art Gallery on display now.

at for two✌️ 🆕 shows 🎨 and lucky us, we ran into artist Anthony White 🙌 and snagged a photo of him with his work. 📸 White’s portrait is one of 7️⃣ recent acquisitions by the museum featured in this exhibit of new works, along with a deconstructed canvas by Ko Kirk Yamahira 🖤 a leather sculpture by Rose Nestler .nestler 💙 and a oil on wool work by Juventino Aranda 🖌
We’re here to catch a talk by artist Duane Linklater, whose solo exhibition MYMOTHERSSIDE occupies most of the museum. Check it all out yourself 👀

Today is the last day of “Black Refractions: Highlights From The Studio Museum in Harlem.” We’re sorry to see this amazing exhibit go, and this elegiac piece by the late Seattle-born artist Noah Davis seems fitting to highlight on the last day. Like many artists featured in this show, Davis created a work here that looks at an historical events from outside of time—in this case, the Tulsa Race Massacre, an egregious example of racist, white supremacist violence that was long ignored in mainstream discourse. The scene here puts simultaneously on the precipice of carnage and its aftermath. Though no bombs were dropped during that event, Davis had included a metaphorical bomb hovering over a young woman. But then, actual bombs have been dropped on black communities, such as the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia.
This show is brimming with sorrow and joy, imagination, humor and reverence, giving a sweeping view of black American creativity in the last century and reminding us how history is still with us in ways that words cannot express.

TGIF, especially for those of us back in the office. Need some inspiration for redecorating? This work by David Bailin at Koplin Del Rio seems to have ideas that may help with stress relief AND improved ventilation. See it and a slew of other large scale works for Bailin’s solo show at KDR this month.

Details from Susanna Bluhm’s boisterous paintings at J. Rinehart Gallery. In response to political divisiveness permeating the airwaves, Bluhm set out several years ago to travel through “Red states” and find both inspiration and common ground with people there. Her idiosyncratic but expert play with color, perspective and subject matter makes for a thoughtful and entertaining show. See it at #🎨

Some details of two, big, gorgeous portraits by Ben Ashton for his glorious solo show “To Our Glorious Future” opening this evening at Roq La Rue.

If you haven’t seen the gallery’s new Madison Valley location, this will be a perfect occasion. Ashton has created a spectacular body of work, even including a stereographic painting with a special viewer, AND a 9-foot tall canvas where visitors can take selfies and blends with the art. (You may need to reeeally stretch yourselves, however, to get Ashton’s surreal effects.) 🌈