Seattle Art Museum
A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle
The Seattle Art Museum’s gift of more than 45 works from collectors Jon and Kim Shirley makes for a compelling performance
Seattle Art Museum receives 48 Calder works and $10m from former Microsoft president and his wife
The trove of works from Jon and Kim Shirley includes many mobiles and stabiles, and comes with a commitment to fund ongoing programming on the artist
Three US museums win prize to fund acquisitions at Expo Chicago fair
Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
Revising a mostly white ‘greatest hits’ narrative, Seattle Art Museum will overhaul its American art galleries
Museum invites three artists to serve as co-authors of collection displays and enlists 10 local experts to help generate inclusive stories
Travelling Jacob Lawrence show spurs discovery of a second missing painting in New York
Museums now appeal for information on three unlocated panels in the artist’s 1950s Struggle series
A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
Seattle Art Museum responds gamely to fake news release saying it is dissolving
Institution says announcement that it will be run by organisations led by black and indigenous Americans was “a well-done piece of satire”
Four North American museums cancel exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections
National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime
A work by Hopper, promised as gift, heads to the auction block instead
Christie's to sell $70m painting once pledged to the Seattle Art Museum
Seattle set to get first Asian paintings studio in western US
Mellon Foundation grant helps to establish conservation centre at city’s Asian art museum
Seattle to unveil Doug Aitken’s digital Land Art
The US artist Doug Aitken has created an “urban earthwork” for the façade of the Seattle Art Museum, which is due to be unveiled this month (24 March).
Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'
The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations
Knoedler and Seattle Art Museum settle over Matisse lawsuit
In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family