Arts & Life Tacomans just voted to tax themselves for arts funding Tacomans have done what King County residents could not: They've passed new tax to raise money for the arts. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Seattle Art Museum director Kimerly Rorshach announces her impending retirement Kimerly Rorshach says she'll step down from SAM next fall, the day after the grand re-opening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Seattle Art Institute lays off 10 faculty members The Art Institute of Seattle has laid off most of its full-time faculty, but things could be worse. Eighteen of the Institute's sister schools will shutter in December Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life How does choreography survive? Check out these diagrams Playwrights create written scripts; music composers write down scores. But how do you write down and save a dance? Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life 'Seattle son' Chris Cornell immortalized outside MoPOP Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will forever live outside of Seattle's music museum, MoPOP, as a life-size statue. Casey Martin
Arts & Life Can Seattle theaters beat the scalper bots? Washington state outlawed automated ticket bots in 2015, but resales are still legal. And Seattle arts organizations worry that consumers are being duped by deceptive websites that mimic their own. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Oh phooey! SAM won't be getting 'Chop Suey' In 2007 patron Barney Ebsworth promised an Edward Hopper painting to Seattle Art Museum. After Ebsworth's death, his heirs decided to put the painting and more than 80 valuable artworks up for auction. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Moving the Burke Museum’s entire collection is a dinosaur of a task The Burke Museum's new building is finished. Now comes the hard part: moving an enormous and fragile collection. Marcie Sillman