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British museums offered a Titian for a steal of a price: $92 million
A British aristocrat is offering two public art museums a $92 million bargain -- a Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Titian.

Sound Transit shows Tomiko Jones' video piece on Broadway
In Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods, the most engaging public art isn't coming from the city, county or state arts commissions. It's coming out of Sound Transit.

Bumbershoot: Young dancer's career soars on the PNB stage
R.M. Campbell: For anyone who hasn't seen Lucien Postlewaite dance, the company's Bumbershoot performance on Labor Day at the Bagley Wright Theatre offers a good introduction.

Bumbershoot: Theater makes a fast break for its 10 minutes of fame
Theater at Bumbershoot is dance with puppets, or a bump-and-grind grounded in literary theory and self-help. It's a high-tech slide show and fake poetry. When real playwrights and actors are involved, they have 10 minutes to make good.

Bumbershoot: The virtues of community are touted in a series of performance art parties
Regina Hackett: Good intentions prevail at a series of performance art parties in the making, all of which are intended to draw you -- yes, you -- out of your shell, in the Northwest Courts during Bumbershoot.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2008
New mural behind Goodwill was created by students
Occupying a massive expanse behind the Goodwill outlet at Fifth Avenue and Holgate Street is a new mural that uses images of everyday signage as backdrop for a beautiful thing.

Seattle Rep names Jerry Manning as acting artistic director
Jerry Manning, casting director at Seattle Repertory Theatre for the past eight years, has been named acting artistic director.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008
'Search and Destroy' is a boring mission
"Search and Destroy" harks back to the 1980s. Was it really that boring?

Actors are pure, hilarious perfection in ACT's 'Intimate Exchanges'
ACT's "Intimate Exchanges" is a powerful showcase for Seattle stage veterans at the height of their power.

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008
Best new art at Seattle Art Museum? Look down
To see the top acquisition from Seattle Art Museum's second-quarter list, you'll need to look down.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2008
Mad for modern architecture? This tour's for you
Docomomo WEWA -- full name: Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement, Western WA -- and the real estate consortium 360° Modern are sponsoring a rare tour of homes in the historic Hilltop Community south of Bellevue on Sept. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m.

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