

Michael Upchurch
Novelist Michael Upchurch (“Passive Intruder”) has written about books and the Seattle arts scene for the past 30 years.
Latest work


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What the Seattle Art Fair has for you
Battling robots and an Earth-orbiting satellite. Thirty “possible portraits” of Chelsea Manning. Gigantic puppets of Seattle’s early White settlers

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9 things to do in Seattle
MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and Tete-a-Tete This past spring, Mickalene Thomas wowed Seattle Art Museum crowds with wildly colored, textured

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Mother as muse in a powerful show of Black beauty
Every artist who ever lived has had a mother. But not many have had a mother like Mickalene Thomas’s.

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5 must-sees at Seattle Chamber Music Fest
Just as it’s a thrill to see dancers up close instead of across the yawning distance of a concert