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The golden mask of Psusennes I is seen during a preview of the King Tut exhibit Wednesday. (ELAINE THOMPSON/The Associated Press)

King Tut exhibit will set gold standard in Seattle

12:19 PM - All that glitters really is gold when you’re an Egyptian pharaoh. Gold sandals, gold statues, gold jewelry. They are some of the 130 artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other Egyptian sites on display starting Thursday at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center.
▶ PHOTO GALLERY: King Tut exhibit at Pacific Science Center

Art & Museums HEADLINES

Tickets for LeMay car museum grand opening available online

Published May 23rd, 2012 - 2:00AM

Advance tickets are now available for the June 2-3 grand opening weekend at LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM). Museum-goers who want to join the celebration of the Northwest’s newest destination and don’t want to wait in line can go to https://www.lemaymuseum.org/museumtickets/.

New Chihuly space shines under Space Needle

Published May 21st, 2012 - 7:06AM

With admission prices up to $19, going to the new Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center might be an expensive way to see art by the iconic Tacoma-born glass artist that you can see in Tacoma for free.

Tacoma Art Museum talk connects faith to issue

Published May 20th, 2012 - 11:12AM

Three reverends, a pastor and a rabbi walked into an art museum on Saturday, but this was no joke.

An unfettered ‘Butterfly’

Published May 18th, 2012 - 12:05AM

It takes a superb performance to make a non-Puccini fan enjoy three hours of the endless melodies and over-the-top emotion that make up “Madama Butterfly,” but that’s what international soprano Patricia Racette brings to the Seattle Opera production of this work. She springs off a supportive cast and elegantly restrained visuals to deliver the all-out passionate acting she’s deservedly famous for.

UWT gets gift of Picasso from peace activist

Published May 7th, 2012 - 11:11AM

The University of Washington Tacoma now has an original Picasso drawing hanging in its library, courtesy of Tacoma peace activist The Rev. Bill “Bix” Bichsel.

Startling drama 'Terminus' undulates between good, evil

Published April 20th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Director David Domkoski created Assemblage Theater specifically to produce a single play: Mark O’Rowe’s gritty and poetic “Terminus,” winner of a “Fringe First” award in the Edinburgh Festival. It is so dark and graphic that few American theaters are willing to produce it, but Domkoski said as soon as he read it, he knew he had to.

Tacoma Opera squeezes Puccini classic ‘La Bohme’ into Rialto Theater

Published March 30th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Plenty of people have heard of “La Bohme.” You might know the beloved Puccini opera from its original incarnation as the tangled love story of a group of starving artists in 1880s Paris, which draws crowds in opera houses around the world. You might know it from the 1990s Broadway hit musical it inspired, “Rent,” or from the 2001 pop opera “Broadway Bohme.” Or you might just know some of its gorgeous arias.

Susan Warner named new executive director and curator of Museum of Glass

Published March 20th, 2012 - 3:27PM

The board of trustees of Tacoma’s Museum of Glass has named Susan Warner as the museum’s new executive director and curator, beginning today. The move comes just two months after the resignation of former director Tim Close, who cited a need for a change in leadership as his reason for leaving. Warner, who has worked for the museum since 2001, has served as interim director since Close resigned in January after five years of leadership.

Tacoma Art Museum hosts controversial show that focuses on sexual identity

Published March 18th, 2012 - 3:47AM

The ground-breaking show “Hide/Seek,” which examines 120 years of American portraiture through a lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender lens, opened Saturday night at the Tacoma Art Museum, the show’s only West Coast venue.

Controversial show at Tacoma Art Museum draws a big crowd

Published March 17th, 2012 - 7:35PM

More than 750 people had RSVP’d to Tacoma Art Museum’s opening party Saturday night for controversial gay art show “Hide/Seek,” and by 7 p.m. the museum already was filling up with visitors from far afield as Portland.

Tacoma cultural center celebrates International Women’s Day

Published March 2nd, 2012 - 12:05AM

March 8 is International Women’s Day. One place to celebrate it in Tacoma is at Native Quest. The new-ish Native American cultural center in the warehouse district has a free celebration at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The center is free anytime and is worth the stop.

Getting it write: Ages 6 and older begin to bloom with free writing help

Published March 2nd, 2012 - 12:05AM

It’s 3 p.m. on a Wednesday, and in a classroom at Tacoma’s First Creek Middle School, a group of boys is slouched around a table after school. They’ve just been challenged to write a composition in seven minutes about the differences between sixth and seventh grades. At first embarrassed, then more confident, they read their work aloud – except for one boy who refuses, looking down. After the group begins the next assignment – adding and editing – a grizzled 62-year-old man sits quietly beside him.

Review: Characters allows ‘Suite’ actors to show off their chops

Published February 10th, 2012 - 12:05AM

The cast of Neil Simon’s “California Suite” at Tacoma Little Theatre is better than the script. Five actors play 11 different characters in four scenes, each scene a different story related only in that each story takes place in rooms 203 and 204 of the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles in 1976.

Hilarious antics keep laughs coming during Lakewood Playhouse production

Published January 27th, 2012 - 12:05AM

“Play It Again, Sam” at Lakewood Playhouse is in many respects a typical Woody Allen tale, full of urban angst and featuring a frustrated and bumbling Woody Allen avatar. It’s a small comedy of romantic absurdity filled with hyperbole and wittily pseudo-sophisticated dialogue.