Press Reviews

The Puppet Show

Another Bouncing Ball, June 19, 2009
Dominance and submission - I'm your puppet »
By Regina Hackett

Another Bouncing Ball, June 19, 2009
Puppets at the Frye - baby please don't go »
By Regina Hackett

Another Bouncing Ball, June 19, 2009
Prelude to a puppet: the catalog (Hello Dave) »
By Regina Hackett

Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, May 31, 2009
Puppet People: Marionettes in motion make for unsettling notions »
By Christopher Werner

The Daily (University of Washington), May 28, 2009
Puppets and paintings »
By Randy Ferreiro

The Seattle Times, May 22, 2009
Frye's "Puppet Show" explores control and manipulation »
By Gayle Clemans

The Stranger (SLOG), May 21, 2009
Puppets Are Better Than Humans, Part III »
By Jen Graves

The Stranger (SLOG), May 20, 2009
Puppets Are Better Than Humans, Part II »
By Jen Graves

The Stranger, May 19, 2009
Go, Figure: The Best Puppet Show Ever at the Frye »
By Jen Graves

The Stranger (SLOG), May 15, 2009
Puppets Are Better Than Humans, Part I »
By Jen Graves


Over Julia's Dead Body: Gabriel von Max's Mystics and Martyrs

The Stranger (SLOG), May 15, 2009
Make It Strange »
By Jen Graves



The Oregonian, April 15, 2009
New books from Washington; book notes »
By Jeff Baker

Senior Voice (Alaska), April 1, 2009
Scott Fife and a taste of Seattle's art scene: Part 2 (PDF) »
By Jean Bundy

The Stranger, March 17, 2009
We Can Work It Out: The Frye's New Book Calls a Truce in the War of Words and Art »
By Paul Constant


The Munich Secession and America

The Stranger, February 3, 2009
Rebels with a Memo: Rewriting Art History at the Frye »
By Jen Graves

The Seattle Times, January 30, 2009
Frye's exhibit on German artistic rebellion shows art on the cusp of something big »
By Gayle Clemans

International Art Treasures, January 5, 2009
The Munich Secession »


Transatlantic: American Artists in Germany

International Art Treasures, January 5, 2009
German Influence »


Empire

Seattle Weekly, December 23, 2008
Fleeting Victories: Cultures collide at the Frye—and it’s your last two weeks to see the carnage »
By Victoria Ellison



The Stranger, December 22, 2008
My Top 10 in Art (The Frye's 2008 Dario Robleto exhibitions at #3) »
By Jen Graves

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 26, 2008
Three Frye Art Museum exhibits offer contrasts in perception »
By Regina Hackett


Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt

Capitol Hill Times, November 24, 2008
Napoleonic dreams of glory take over the Frye »
By Steven Vroom



The Seattle Times, November 19, 2008
Frye's Robin Held honored »
By Sheila Farr


Empire

The Stranger, November 12, 2008
Dias, Riedweg, and the Art of Figuring Out Where You Stand in the World (Podcast) »
By Jen Graves

The Stranger, November 11, 2008
How to Look at Other People »
By Jen Graves



KING 5 TV, October 27, 2008
KING 5's Best of Western Washington: Best Museum »


Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt

The Seattle Times, October 10, 2008
Napoleon joins forces with video artists at the Frye »
By Sheila Farr


Empire

Everett Herald, September 26, 2008
New Frye exhibit could be a challenge »
By Theresa Goffredo

The Stranger, September 10, 2008
Fall Arts Calendar: The Stranger's Noncomprehensive, Only-the-Best Guide to Your Near Future »
By David Schmader

The Seattle Times, September 9, 2008
Fall Arts Guide: Art exhibits not to be missed »
By Sheila Farr

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 9, 2008
Fall Arts Guide: Regina Hackett's visual arts picks »
By Regina Hackett


Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections

Seattle Weekly, September 1, 2008
Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections »
By Erika Hobart


Oliver Herring | Task

The Stranger, July 8, 2008
The Art of Doing What You're Told »
By Jen Graves

The Stranger, July 3, 2008
Oliver Herring: The Man Who Says Yes to Everything (Podcast) »
By Jen Graves


Dario Robleto: Alloy of Love

The Seattle Times, June 15, 2008
The alluring alchemy of Dario Robleto »
By Sheila Farr

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 6, 2008
Death-obsessed Robleto mixes, matches and turns art on its interactive head »
By Tim Appelo

The Stranger, June 4, 2008
Death: The Remix »
By Jen Graves

The Spectator (Seattle University), May 28, 2008
Frye's latest exhibit shows soldiers' love in times of war »
By Taylor Olson


Heaven is Being a Memory to Others

The Stranger, May 21, 2008
Hey Dario, I Just Got Your Woolly Mammoth Hairs In, Give Me A Call (Podcast) »
By Jen Graves

Houston Chronicle, May 16, 2008
Portrait of an artist in demand »
By Douglas Britt

Queen Anne News, May 14, 2008
Frye exhibit is "Heaven" »
By Nancy Worssam

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 9, 2008
Dario Robleto attempts, and fails, to open a new eye onto the life of Emma Frye »
By Regina Hackett


R. Crumb's Underground

Queen Anne News, February 11, 2008
R. Crumb is Truckin’ at the Frye »
By Nancy Worssam

The Stranger, January 30, 2008
Perfectly Goddamn Delightful: There is no safe distance from R. Crumb »
By Jen Graves

Seattle Times, January 30, 2008
Adult-comic legend's work comes to Seattle »
By Mark Rahner

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 30, 2008
Frye Museum goes "Underground" with a godfather of the comix movement: R. Crumb »
By Regina Hackett

Seattle Gay News, January 18, 2008
ZAP! R. Crumb's Underground at the Frye Art Museum through April »
By Maggie Bloodstone


Dreaming the Emerald City: The Collections of Charles and Emma Frye and Horace C. Henry

Queen Anne News, November 22, 2007
Dreaming the Emerald City at the Frye »
By Nancy Worssam

The Stranger, November 21, 2007
The Pepsi Challenge: The Henry's and the Frye's original collections together for the first time »
By Jen Graves


Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands

Seattle Times, August 10, 2007
Ironing out the contradictions in our consumer culture »



Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 2, 2007
Two artists at the Frye are at their best when they leave behind their influences »
By Regina Hackett


David C. Kane: Fiat Mambo

Seattle Times, June 17, 2007
David Kane: An artist on the verge »
By Sheila Farr