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When your favorite paintings are not on view at the Frye Art Museum, museumgoers elsewhere may be enjoying them.
Message from the Frye – Summer 2011
This is an exhilarating time for the Frye Art Museum. With the exhibition Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul, we are presenting some of the most spectacular paintings of the nineteenth century.
Degenerate Art Ensemble Videos
Throughout the run of the Frye Art Museum exhibition Degenerate Art Ensemble, the artist group is pleased to present footage of past performances, tours, animation, and other miscellaneous content from their vast collection of random DAE-related video tapes on the Frye website.
Message from the Director – Winter/Spring 2011
As we enter the first days of a new year, and a new decade, we can look forward in anticipation as new exhibitions and programs unfold and as we move closer to 2012 and our sixtieth anniversary as a free public museum.
Implied Violence performance at the Frye Art Museum
On Saturday, October 9, 2010, Seattle artist group performed The Dorothy K: For Better, For Worse, Forever in the Frye Art Museum reflecting pool.
Message from the Director – Fall 2010
This fall and winter the Frye Art Museum is proud to present an exceptional array of historic and contemporary exhibitions dedicated to acclaimed local and international artists.
Community Cinema Seattle presented at the Frye
In a partnership between the Frye and Community Cinema Seattle, cutting-edge documentaries are previewed each month, for free, prior to their airing on the Emmy Award-winning PBS show Independent Lens.
Frye Art Museum’s iconic painting by Gabriel von Max showcased in Munich
The Christian Martyr by Gabriel von Max, one of the most important paintings of nineteenth century German art and a highlight of the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection, will be showcased in a major retrospective on Gabriel von Max at the renowned Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich this fall.
Go behind-the-scenes of a Frye exhibition in online video
Watch how a group of students from Arts Corps created I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me.