Part of the Summer of Awe →
Explore the exhibition in photosRadios, projectors, mechanical marvels, paintings, and room views in twelve real installation photographs.Start the photo tour →
Beautiful Things Exhibition.
Curated by Andrew ConruExplore the exhibition in photosRadios, projectors, mechanical marvels, paintings, and room views in twelve real installation photographs.Start the photo tour →Watch the walkthrough
Ten minutes through the whole show.
Walk through Seattle’s first hundred years in one room: radios, early film projectors, mechanical music, everyday objects, and around 40 museum-quality paintings, including work by our Seattle Prize fellows.
We’re open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 6. Come on in, we would love to see you. Free to walk in, a guided tour starts about every 15 minutes.
Occidental Fine Arts Center · 311½ Occidental Ave S · Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 6 · Free admission all summer
Antiques that talk
Yes, these are playful AI-made clips. But it takes a lot of play to make a 125-year-old washing machine look this fun. You have to see it to believe it, so come see the real thing.
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First Thursday · See the crowd from July’s ArtWalk. The next one is August 6.Watch the footage →
Behind it
The making of →
How Andrew brought these to life with real antiques, the Seattle archive, and AI in service of the truth.
Bonus
The AWWW Wall →
A wall of pet portraits. You learn who someone really was by how they loved their animals, just like we do.
Visit
See it in Pioneer Square →
311½ Occidental Ave S, free admission. Touch the real things, all summer.
New work
Seattle Art Prize Fellows →
Contemporary work hanging in the same room as the antiques.