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Seattle, Washington, has more than 400 permanent pieces of public artwork throughout the city, supported by private collections and the municipal Percent for Art program, which directs one percent of funding for capital improvement projects into artwork. [1] In 2013, the collection's permanent and portable works were valued at a total of $39 ...
Horiuchi Mural, also known as Seattle Mural, [1] is a mural by Paul Horiuchi in Seattle Center, in Seattle, Washington. It was commissioned for the Century 21 Exposition (1962) and was billed as the largest artwork in the Pacific Northwest. The mural measures 60 feet by 17 feet. [2] [3]
The Wall of Death is a permanently sited public art installation [3] located under the University Bridge in Seattle, alongside the Burke-Gilman Trail and NE 40th Street in the University District. It was designed and built by Mowry Baden and his son, Colin, in 1993.
The text "Black Lives Matter" was first painted in large white letters on Pine Street between 10th and 11th avenues, during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. [3]After the letters began to deteriorate, the mural was etched permanently into the road surface in September [4] and repainted with colorful, block letters, each contributed by a different artist.
The entertainments in Seattle in its first decade were typical of similar frontier towns. [3] The first established place of entertainment was Henry Yesler's one-story 30 feet (9.1 m) x 100 feet (30.5 m) hall (built 1865), which hosted monologuists, Swiss bellringers, phrenologists and the like.
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Black Sun is a 1969 sculpture by Isamu Noguchi located in Seattle, Washington's Volunteer Park. The statue is situated on the eastern edge of the park's man-made reservoir, across from the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The view from the sculpture includes the Space Needle, Olympic Mountains, and Elliott Bay. [1] [2] [3]
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