Scotch and beer in Fremont, a fantasy convention, free entry to the National Parks, a lipstick party and works from Jasper Johns to Rothko. Yup, Seattle's pretty awesome

It’s time to spring forward (literally this Sunday, you guys) and plan your arts calendar for the sunny (well, sunnier) season. We’ve sifted through everything that’s coming up and selected the spring shows you’ve got to see

At a new show, Close’s intense gaze sees more deeply than most—even if it’s hard for him to see himself

Of his subjects in The Migration Series, painter Jacob Lawrence “believed in these anonymous migrants,” says Patricia Junker, curator of American art at SAM