ArtSEA: How an NYC story resonates with Seattle artists
Plus, Black History Month continues at Northwest Film Forum, National Nordic Museum and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
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Playwright Radha Blank stars as frustrated playwright Radha in The Forty-Year-Old Version on Netflix. (Jeong Park/Netflix)
There’s nothing quite like the joy of encountering a fresh artistic voice you want to hang out with for a good chunk of time. I experienced it while watching the new Netflix movie
The Forty-Year-Old Version, written, directed by and starring New York-based playwright
Radha Blank. It’s not a local story, but it resonates widely and is one of the most self-aware, insightful and funny portrayals of pursuing a creative life that I’ve seen in a long while.
Greg Kucera is bidding
adieu to Seattle and
bonjour to a literal castle in France: The founder and director of Seattle s blue chip gallery for the past 37 years will retire starting sometime this year. But the space isn t going anywhere. Jim Wilcox, Kucera s employee of the past 21 years, bought the gallery along with his wife, Carol. Wilcox and Kucera will be co-directors of the space for several years, then Kucera s ownership will slowly decrease with time. In a blog post, Kucera said the gallery continued to have good business during the pandemic, which is a good sign for our future. I ll have more on this later, but if you want to check out Greg s medieval new digs, watch this video (turn the volume all the way up for effect).
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.