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At Seattle Asian Art Museum, world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei shows his massive toy-brick homage to the impressionist painter.

Plus, more big moves in Northwest arts and culture, including shifts at Seattle University, The 5th Avenue Theater and Pacific Science Center.

With bonsai treehouses, a wooden womb, angelic paintings and an astrological symphony, Seattle arts events provide an escape from the headline churn.

Shows at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and National Nordic Museum take a pointillist approach to telling timely stories.

Plus, a laser show from the top of the Space Needle is among the new artworks premiering this weekend.

Plus, a ballet that swarms with bees, the Sea Slug Animation Festival, a sad but soft zebra and other artistic escape routes.

Nadia Catarina Munno, a fifth-generation pasta maker, tells how she carved out a career cooking spaghetti on social media.

Plus, Seattle has a new Civic Poet, and a crop of fresh books by Northwest authors hits the shelves. 

Researching the life of a musician born in 1888 led to dead ends, deep appreciation for keepers of the past and questions about whose history is told.

Plus, Seattle Opera stages a wildly animated take on a classic, and more theater picks — from nonlinear dramas to a big Broadway hit.

Plus, a new jazz walk bops through Pioneer Square, and a look at legendary Northwest photographer Al Smith.

Plus, Seattle Art Museum trades in a tree sculpture for plastic clouds, and ways to plan a Super Bowl-free weekend.

Plus, Century Ballroom announces there’s hope for its survival while other Seattle arts spaces move, shake and innovate.

With Sound Transit considering a second station on Dearborn close to the group’s building, artists worry the project could force out tenants.

With costumes by Wicked designer Paul Tazewell and sets by artist Preston Singletary, PNB hopes to breathe new life into the 19th-century classic.