Arts & Entertainment, Literature, Visual Arts

In the world, immigrants move to and fro / Trying to let their homelands go

You have just a few days left to see the “Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura” exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The exhibition closes February 19, and, accompanied by the adjacent exhibition, “Looking West, Finding East,” it offers visitors a potent vision, corrective and celebratory, of less-illuminated street corners in Seattle’s past. (I believe if you go to see SAM’s Gauguin exhibition, your ticket stub will also get you into SAAM for up to a week after.) Continue reading In the world, immigrants move to and fro / Trying to let their homelands go

News, Politics, Travel

Rising Visa Denials and Delays Keeping Artists and Arts Groups on Pins and Needles

This Thursday, On the Boards will open a show you almost didn’t get to see, “L’Effet de Serge” by France’s Vivarium Studio. For the first time, says On the Boards, their request for an artist’s visa was denied. “In our 34-year history we have brought hundreds of foreign artists to the U.S. and this is the first time that we have encountered this kind of visa difficulty,” reads the OtB blog. Especially on the West Coast, a crackdown of sorts on visa issuance seems to be in progress, and no one seems to know why. Continue reading Rising Visa Denials and Delays Keeping Artists and Arts Groups on Pins and Needles