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Ai Weiwei at SAM Operational Updates April 24, 2025
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Organizes Major Retrospective of Global Art Icon Ai Weiwei March 7, 2025
Seattle Art Museum's Brotman Forum to Host New FriendsWithYou Commission February 4, 2025
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) to Expand Exhibition of Ai Weiwei Work to All Three Locations December 16, 2024
SAM Security Officers Union Begins Strike; SAM Leadership Offers Market-Leading Wages, Competitive Benefits November 29, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Announces Slate of Free, Engaging Public Programming Accompanying Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder October 30, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Welcomes David A. Perez and Jennifer H. Roberts to its Board of Trustees October 28, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Presents Solo Exhibition of Prize-Winner Bethany Collins October 15, 2024
Seattle Art Museum to Deinstall Middle Fork Sculpture From Entrance Lobby October 4, 2024
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Awards Samantha Yun Wall the 2024 Betty Bowen Award October 3, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Receives $500,000 in New Funding from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to Energize Downtown Seattle Arts and Culture Sector September 24, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Presents Retrospective of Boundary-Breaking Artist Joyce J. Scott September 17, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Presents Major Exhibition Juxtaposing Two Singular American Sculptors: Thaddeus Mosley and Alexander Calder September 12, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Appoints Dr. Aaron Rio Curator of Japanese and Korean Art August 20, 2024
Wednesdays Are Back at the Seattle Asian Art Museum August 1, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Extends Calder: In Motion and Announces Next Exhibition in Multiyear Calder at SAM Initiative July 15, 2024
Seattle Art Museum Announces Scott Stulen as New Director and CEO June 25, 2024
Seattle Asian Art Museum Presents Meot: Korean Art From The Frank Bayley Collection June 18, 2024
Seattle Art Museum to Present Major Retrospective for Ai Weiwei in 2025 May 22, 2024
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Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (Bronze)
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Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism
Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light
Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies
Tariqa Waters: Venus is Missing
FriendsWithYou: Little Cloud Sky
Lay Your Burden Down
Ash-Glazed Ceramics from Korea and Japan
Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne EnchantĂŠe
Yirrkala: Art from Australiaâs Top End
Lessons from the Institute of Empathy
Impressionisms: The Global Nineteenth Century
American Art: The Stories We Carry
Chronicles of a Global East
Boundless: Stories of Asian Art
Pacific Species
Cosmic Beings in Mesoamerican and Andean Art
Art and Life Along the Northwest Coast
Conscious Constructions
Only Connect: The Art of Devotion
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