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Every year, the Snoqualmie Valley space hosts “The Actual Twin Peaks,” the last word weekend journey for die-hard Twin Peaks followers—the lineup contains panels, movie screenings, panels, e book signings, performances, and extra. VIP tickets are bought out, however there are nonetheless loads of free and á la carte occasions obtainable, together with a David Lynch memorial, a Mulholland Drive dialogue, trivia, a 1989-themed promenade, a screening of Robocop with actor Ray Sensible (who performed Leland Palmer), and extra. JB
(Varied areas, Snoqualmie Valley)
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The SoDo-based taproom will play Twin Peaks on their huge display screen all day lengthy, whereas Fulcrum Espresso Roasters and Pie Hen Bakeshop will serve the requisite espresso and cherry pie from 2-4 pm. Different attracts embrace a particular cider launch, a themed cider cocktail, restricted version merch, and unique themed T-shirts obtainable for buy, and friends carrying Twin Peaks-inspired outfits will get $1 of their drinks. A portion of proceeds will profit the David Lynch Basis’s efforts to help inventive wellness and training. JB
(Seattle Cider Taproom, Industrial District)
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Kitty Craft seems like what you’d get for those who taped an album by the Sundays over an album by the Beastie Boys—wistful vocals, dreamy strummed guitars, and surprising hip-hop beats. From 1995 to 2000, Minneapolis-born artist Pamela Valfer launched three timeless indie pop albums below the cutesy moniker that followers of Gen Z queens like Clairo and Beabadoobee would vibe with. Clairo, by the way in which, is an authorized Kitty Craft fan…want I say extra? Do not miss a uncommon native efficiency from the lo-fi legend after a gap set from native singer-songwriter Blaize Jenkins. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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Longtime New York-based rock band Mercury Rev returns to Seattle to help Born Horses, their first album of authentic materials in 9 years (their earlier album, Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited, was a tribute to the enigmatic nation queen). TBH, the brand new album has not gotten nice evaluations—Pitchfork gave it an astonishing 4.5, which, for reference, is similar rating that they gave Katy Perry’s newest album, 143. Nevertheless, I do not assume this was deserved. Born Horses is completely fulfilling with melodramatic spoken phrase tales atop jazzy Angelo Badalamenti-esque instrumentals. They are going to be joined by digital artistLiz Lamere (proto-punk pioneer Alan Vega’s spouse and collaborator). AV
(Madame Lou’s on the Crocodile, Belltown)
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As a longtime admirer of jazz innovator Alice Coltrane, I typically sulk on the actuality that I’ll by no means get to see her carry out stay (she handed away again in 2007). And, given the mercurial nature of free jazz, I’ve needed to settle for that her studio albums and stay recordings are simply the tip of the iceberg in the case of the genius that she supplied the mortal world. Fortunately, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (her son with John Coltrane) is bringing his mom’s otherworldly compositions on a short three-date tour, performing alongside harpist Brandee Youthful, pianist Gadi Lehavi, bassist Rashaan Carter, and drummer Elé Howell. I’ve chills simply fascinated by listening to the opening bassline to “Journey to Satchidananda” carried out stay. AV
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
READINGS & TALKS
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Longtime journey guru, hometown hero, and America’s sweetheart Rick Steves has shared his “backdoor” tips for making journeys extra stress-free and cost-effective for longer than a few of us have been alive. In his backpacking memoir On the Hippie Path — Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Journey Author, Steves tracks his “Hippie Path” trek within the ’70s, throughout which he “jumped off a transferring practice…bought excessive for the primary time in Herat, [and] battled leeches in Pokhara.” Attendees can seize a duplicate of the e book and listen to extra reflections from Steves at this discuss. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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The College of Washington’s winter 2025 lineup of public lectures showcases must-hear audio system like Wesaam Al-Badry, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Megan Ming Francis, and others. (They’ve reminded us that there’s “no time for hate,” which was a bit exhausting to swallow after a sure somebody took workplace on January 20, aka MLK Day.) Present up for the final of the season’s considerate talks from Victor Luckerson and Margo Okazawa-Rey on February 26 and March 4, respectively. They will ship lectures on the aftermath of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath and transnational feminism. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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Half screening, half stay studying, and half fundraiser, this occasion (deliberate with the queer-led nonfiction literary arts group Nonfiction for No Cause) will increase cash for the Northwest Abortion Entry Fund, which gives assist for individuals searching for healthcare out of state. Sadly, it is extra important than ever to help organizations like NWAAF. The award-winning documentary Zurawski v Texas follows ladies who, after being denied abortions, banded collectively to sue the state of Texas; after the screening, the viewers will hear from three Seattle writers sharing “nonfiction works on abortion.” LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown)
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This lineup is stacked. Actually most individuals into heavier music find out about Deftones and may/do respect them however for me personally, the truth that the Mars Volta are on this invoice is big. For a minimum of one queer child dwelling in stiflingly conservative rural America, the Mars Volta gave license to put on tight clothes, be flamboyant, and get offended on the state of the world. I bought a tattoo within the Mars Volta font after I was 18 for fuck’s sake, that’s how a lot they meant to me, however I digress. Opening this wild present is Fleshwater, the extra grunge-leaning aspect undertaking of Vein.fm. PORTLAND MERCURY MUSIC EDITOR NOLAN PARKER
(Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown)
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Poet’s poet Maggie Smith plumbs the depths of her disintegrating marriage in You Might Make This Place Lovely, reflecting on modern womanhood and gender roles with an inquisitive, empathetic eye. In the event you dig Deborah Levy and Rachel Cusk, this memoir can be up your alley. Smith will discuss her reckoning with “the ability dynamics that persist even in lots of progressive properties” at this discuss. I am listening. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
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Egypt-born, Portland-based writer Omar El Akkad, whose debut novel American Conflict gained an Oregon E book Award for fiction and whose second novel, What Unusual Paradise, tells the story of a younger Syrian refugee, will cease by Seattle Public Library to speak about One Day, Everybody Will Have All the time Been Towards This. El Akkad’s nonfiction debut attracts from latest historical past (the Conflict on Terror, Ferguson, local weather change, Black Lives Matter protests, and the genocide in Gaza) to reckon with the lies of the West and “carve out some sense of chance in a time of carnage.” He’ll be joined by Ijeoma Oluo, who penned the highly effective tomesSo You Need To Discuss About Race,Mediocre: The Harmful Legacy of White Male America, andBe A Revolution: How On a regular basis Folks Are Preventing Oppression and Altering the World — and How You Can, Too. LC
(Central Library, Downtown)
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It might not be “Fats Lil Slut Summer season” but, however prep your ‘matches anyway. Stavros Halkias, the spunky, Baltimore-born Greek American comedian who beforehand hosted the often-controversial “dirtbag left” podcast Cum City alongside fellow weirdos Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen, will take a break from “posting to social media like his profession depends upon it” (GQ, lol) to roast your five-year plan on stage. This is your probability to verify in with the body-positive king earlier than he begins grilling once more. LC
(Moore Theatre, Belltown)
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Prolific cellist/experimental artist Lori Goldston, whose first main look was on stage with Nirvana throughout their iconic MTV Unplugged set, will play a hometown present simply earlier than embarking on a seven-week European tour. Count on to listen to compositions from her newest solo album, Excessive and Low, which was recorded proper within the Chapel Efficiency Area. AV
(Good Shepherd Heart/Chapel Efficiency Area, Wallingford)
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On his new album Blues Blood, alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins drew inspiration from private and generational reminiscences to provide a piece that’s without delay emotionally transferring and sonically soothing. Blues Blood is Wilkins’ first album with vocals, and he’s joined by friends Cécile McLorin Salvant, June McDoom, and Ganavya. Portland cinematic instrumental undertaking Kennebec helps on this invoice. AV
(Triple Door, Downtown)
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you’ll be able to strive beating SAD with SAM once more this yr. The artwork museum will supply free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self away from bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and stay performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown)
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This spirited weeklong occasion places a highlight on the movers and (cocktail) shakers of the Seattle bar scene with particular libations obtainable at collaborating venues, plus excursions, the industry-only Bartender’s Circle Summit, and extra. Saturday’s Carnival of Cocktails occasion will characteristic over 200 spirits to strive, plus pop-up cocktail bars, grasp lessons, tastings, meals vans, and different festivities. JB
(Varied areas)
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California rapper and popular culture polymath Tyler, The Creator wants no introduction at this level in his profession. His musical output, which started in his teen years, began out with darkish themes and controversy earlier than delving into the softer components of himself. On Tyler’s newest album, CHROMAKOPIA, this trajectory continues with heavy raps woven along with vibrant pop hooks, jazz melodies, and narration from his mom. He’ll help the album after opening units from entice rapper-turned-psychedelic rock wizard Lil Yachty and LA-based alt-hip-hop duo Paris Texas. AV
(Local weather Pledge Enviornment, Uptown)
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See somebody? Say one thing. I Noticed U, The Stranger‘s tackle Craigslist Missed Connections, returned final yr, which implies you’ll be able to learn pickup traces like “How’s your praxis? As a result of I feel we could possibly be greater than only a concept ;)” everytime you need. Sudden Productions has since devised an improvised response to the column, reworking the weekly listings into comedy units that “think about what would occur if the people truly went out on a date.” LC
(Sudden Productions’ Market Theater, Pike Place Market, Friday–Saturday)
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Dan Savage’s pioneering erotic movie fest will premiere an all-new lineup of horny movies that includes all genders and orientations at On the Boards once more this yr. Since 2005, HUMP! has introduced inclusive, inventive, and kinky movies to the large display screen—scope out the sex-positive fest in particular person for a tantalizing deal with. This yr’s HUMP! options not one however two feature-length lineups of “sizzling, heavy, and hilarious ‘soiled’ movie shorts,” and half one features a feast of spanking-new movies to your eyeballs. It is value a enterprise exterior of your intercourse dungeon, however you’ll be able to nonetheless put on the latex catsuit. LC
(On the Boards, Uptown, Friday–Saturday)
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Chantal Akerman’s 1975 drama Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was awarded the primary slot on Sight & Sound‘s 2022 critics’ ballot of the best movies of all time. (It conquered each Vertigo and Citizen Kane for the primary time in 60 years, and was the one movie directed by a lady to ever attain a prime ten place within the ballot.) The flick is the right selection for many who have a tendency towards the “arthouse cinema” finish of the curiosity spectrum. Why not carve out a mere three-and-a-half hours to delight in its avant-garde, fiercely feminist glory? LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Thursday)
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Ingmar Bergman swapped toy troopers for a film projector as a baby, igniting a wierd and lifelong obsession with shadows, faces, and the silent depth of emotion. Bergman’s movies had been worshipped by just about each director you recognize—Fellini, Kurosawa, and Kubrick amongst them. Even the reclusive painter Andrew Wyeth noticed Bergman as a kindred spirit. My advice? Reward your self just a few moments to hunt the metaphysical inside the mundane this month. SIFF Cinema Uptown’s sequence contains screenings of Summer season with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Persona, and private favourite Winter Mild. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tuesday–Sunday)
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In the event you sometimes watch the Oscars with a passing curiosity within the nominated brief movies, maybe feeling intrigued however figuring out that you’re going to by no means get an opportunity to see them on display screen, have I bought the chance for you. SIFF Cinema Uptown will display screen the nominees within the stay motion, animation, and documentary classes, so you’ll be able to predict the winners and scope out standouts like Victoria Warmerdam’s I am Not a Robotic and Nebojsa Slijepcevic’s The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent. Pepper that into dialog later, your pals will assume you might be cool. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Sunday)
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Seize your rose water and your candelabras, women, ‘trigger nothing says “Valentine’s Day’s over” like a clique of ribbon-and-lace-clad boarding schoolers gone lacking in pastoral Victorian-era Australia. In the event you’re something like me (wistful, simply romanced), this screening of Peter Weir’s eerie dreamhouse Picnic at Hanging Rock is bound to take your breath away. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Thursday)
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David Lynch’s unusual, alchemical imaginative and prescient made an impression the world over, however let’s face it: The Pacific Northwest lays declare to the auteur. Positive, a lot of Lynch’s movies are set in or round Los Angeles, however one cannot deliver him to thoughts with out two phrases popping up. Twin. Peaks. Though Lynch solely lived in Washington for a portion of his childhood, the cinemas of Seattle have “proudly declared Twin Peaks to be the quintessential and defining work of PNW movement photos and David Lynch as considered one of our biggest artists.” I’ve to agree. The Beacon, SIFF Cinema Downtown, the Grand Phantasm, Northwest Movie Discussion board, North Bend Theatre, and Pacific Science Heart Theater will have a good time his life’s work with screenings by August. LC
(Varied areas, Friday–Sunday)
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Common native burger joint chain Li’l Woody’s eleventh annual Burger Month sequence options 4 weeks of particular burger collaborations dreamed up by a few of the metropolis’s brightest culinary luminaries. Remaining specials are the Lago Burger (a quarter-pound Royal Ranch grass-fed beef patty, goat cheese, roasted tomatoes, pomodoro con aglio and balsamic salsa, arugula, shaved crimson cabbage, pickled crimson onions, and parsley on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from Cafe Lago chef Lauren Thompson (February 18-24) and the Catahoula Burger (a quarter-pound Royal Ranch grass-fed beef patty, Tillamook white cheddar cheese, crimson eye barbecue sauce, honey jalapeño slaw, bread-and-butter pickles, and Worcestershire tabasco aioli on a Li’l Woody’s bun) from FlintCreek Cattle Co. chef Eric Donnelly (February 25-March 3). Burger fans who buy all 4 specials will obtain a restricted version Li’l Woody’s woven market bag, and through their Burger 4 Burger program, Li’l Woody’s will donate the identical variety of burgers bought to a corporation of every chef’s selection. JB
(Li’l Woody’s, Capitol Hill, Monday–Sunday)
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The oldsters at Freakout Information and The Crocodile deliver you Freakout Weekender, a spectacular weekend mini-fest filled with indie royalty and native favorites. Highlights out of the greater than a dozen artists embrace Colombian psychedelic funk trio BALTHVS, instrumental rock undertaking Orions Belte, neo-shoegaze outfit Glixen, and Portland storage rockers Spoon Benders. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown, Saturday–Sunday)
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Iconic soul group WAR has a means of making songs that evoke the heat of laying out within the grass on a sizzling summer season day. It’s possible you’ll know their basic hits like “Low Rider” and “Why Cannot We Be Pals,” however as you dig deeper, you’ll proceed to seek out carefree and politically pushed songs that stay related in at this time’s world. The legendary seven-piece band hasn’t stopped because the ’70s, working with modern frontrunners by the years comparable to Tupac, Janet Jackson, and Kendrick Lamar. They return to Seattle for a four-night stint at Jazz Alley. My fingers are crossed that they’re going to play songs from their 1972 album, All Day Music. AV
(Jazz Alley, Belltown, Thursday–Sunday)
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is chargeable for Hamilton‘s e book, music, and lyrics, and he has squashed a dizzying variety of phrases and ideas into this beautiful manufacturing. You do not like musicals? Nice. However the Pulitzer-winning Hamilton is inconceivable to flee—its hip-hop, jazz, and rap numbers have made individuals everywhere in the nation rethink their inflexible anti-musical stance, and supplied them juicy, controversial historical past about considered one of their founding fathers. Take it for a take a look at spin; you are gonna hear about it endlessly anyway. LC
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Mozart’s 18th-century opera The Magic Flute tells of a mystical world crammed with freaky beasts, cheeky fairies, real love, and a really useful flute. So, do not anticipate the manufacturing to be classically stuffy. Barrie Kosky’s recent interpretation ups the ante much more, pulling inspiration from silent motion pictures and incorporating “eye-popping hand-drawn animation.” LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Wednesday/Saturday–Sunday)
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This Black Historical past Month, why not witness a harmonious merging of conventional African dance, modern choreography, and spoken phrase efficiency? If this sounds intriguing, iconic choreographer Ronald Okay. Brown’s dance firm EVIDENCE has bought you lined. Brown, who makes use of motion “as a approach to reinforce the significance of group in African American tradition and to acquaint audiences with the fantastic thing about conventional African varieties and rhythms,” will current a program of Afro-Cuban dance varieties, Latin-inflected jazz, and poetic items that “look at ideas of stability and fairness.” LC
(Meany Heart for the Performing Arts, Northeast Seattle, Thursday–Saturday)
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Keep up-to-date with latest additions to the Henry’s sprawling 28,000-piece everlasting assortment at this exhibition, which presents new work, sculptures, and works on paper on corporeal themes. Count on figural and bodily works, plus people who “contemplate circumstances and experiences of energy, marginality, and vulnerability in addition to inside psychological landscapes.” I am intrigued by Daybreak Cerny’s Tabletop Sculpture, which incorporates glass, wooden, pencils, felt, clips, hooks, and different supplies. (In the event you’re drawn to Cerny’s work, try her new exhibition on the Frye, too.) LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Thursday–Sunday; closing)
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That includes items from the gathering of artwork patron Frank Bayley (the grandson of Emma Baillargeon Stimson, the primary feminine director of the Seattle Artwork Museum) and celebrating his friendships with “seven internationally famend Korean artists,” Meot: Korean Artwork from the Frank Bayley Assortment builds intriguing conversations by positioning modern Korean artworks alongside historic works in comparable mediums. The impact highlights how conventional Korean art-making has persevered and developed throughout centuries, together with examples in buncheong ware, work, images, calligraphy, wooden, and extra. LC
(Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, Capitol Hill, Thursday–Sunday; closing)
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The Henry’s newest exhibition reimagines the function of sunshine in images, not merely as a “beacon of fact” however as an energetic power that shapes, conceals, and distorts our perceptions. Featured artists like Karen Truax and Manuel Lucero look at how mild reveals hidden layers of fact by shifting standard senses of area, identification, and time. With intentional overexposures, shadows, and subtle glows, their works additionally problem mild’s affiliation with objectivity. Head to Overexposures to glimpse the layered, complicated relationship between mild and actuality—the present contains experimental works from the Henry’s collections, together with pictures by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Arthur S. Siegel. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Thursday–Sunday; closing)
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I’ve written incessantly about Peter Gronquist’s art work—In Manifest, the Portland-based multimedia artist’s large-scale sculptural work included bone fragments, dyed wasp paper, wool, lace, rose quartz, and “fossilized” occasion posters as supplies, whereas Mild File displayed a physique of abstracted works impressed by each photographic and portray processes. Gronquist’s sculptural work are nonetheless a deal with to look at—his brushstrokes are seen, his textures really feel sedimentary and excavated from an historical supply. Gronquist’s present assertion for Alchemist is a little bit of an artwork piece in itself: “Every exhausting, shell-like carapace, resting on serene color-fields of milk-gold and blooming pink, illustrate the artist’s obsessive, ritualistic manipulation of supplies,” it explains. “Your entire portray turns into a form of ‘psychic tundra.'” Language can solely go to this point, although; you will wish to see how Gronquist works with satin, resin, and salvaged paper in particular person. LC
(Winston Wächter Nice Artwork, South Lake Union, Tuesday–Saturday; closing)
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Ric’kisha Taylor’s life has all the time shimmered, and that radiance carries into her artwork. Her fascination with “hair equipment, DAX grease, [and] her mom’s glittery debit playing cards” informs a uniquely opulent and ultra-tactile collage fashion. In Gleaming, she delves into cultural assimilation and intimacy avoidance by augmented photographic imagery, intricate peyote stitching—a way honed by Indigenous beaders—and exact stitching strategies handed down by Black elders. The outcomes are as dazzling as they’re deliberate, evoking popular culture references whereas remaining layered, expressive, and deeply thought-about. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., Monday–Thursday; closing)
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Susan Skilling’s watercolors on Thai mulberry paper have a hushed, ephemeral high quality, with dreamy compositions of timber, gestural abstractions, and delicate figural varieties. The image subject is crammed with washes of muted blues and greens, or saved spare with single figures floating in area. The works in Wanderings have a somber modesty, but in addition really feel imaginative—examine Untitled #7, as an illustration, to this determine from an illuminated manuscript. LC
(Greg Kucera Gallery, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Saturday)
