Hometown Boy by Liu Xiaodong

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I like to go to the Seattle Asian Art Museum, a small museum that is always so quiet.

A few weeks ago, I saw Liu Xiadong‘s Hometown Boy series.

After studying in Beijing and settling there, the artist went back to his hometown, an industrial city, and painted with vivid colors his old friends, ordinary people, houses and streets that have not changed in decades.
A lot of realism and sensibility.

— Seattle Asian Art Museum through June 29, 2014
Volunteer Park – 1400 East Prospect Street

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The London Plane

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The London Plane: a New Opening in Pioneer Square.
It has a beautiful interior, not so much because of the decoration itself but because it is in the middle of a retail store that sells creative arrangements of flowers, pastries, cheese, canned and tinned food…
I had lunch at the bar, where a choice of newspapers are made available to you.
I had a large salad (chicories, cucumber, chickpeas, avocado, with tahine herbs dressing) that was very fresh. The Rhubarb Galette (tarte à la rhubarbe) was tasty but a little bit too sweet. They do not serve espresso but a very good drip coffee from their neighbor Caffè Umbria.
I’ll go back and give it a second chance because I really enjoyed having lunch in such a pleasant place and the owners are the same people in charge of Sitka & Spruce and Bar Sajor, two restaurants that I really like.

—  The London Plane 300 & 322 Occidental Ave. S