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Platform Gallery

Platform Gallery was a contemporary art gallery formerly located in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in historic Pioneer Square District in Downtown Seattle. It was founded in 2003 by four artists, including Stephen Lyons, who in 2008 was sole owner. In late 2016, the gallery moved from its brick and mortar space to exhibiting and selling artworks exclusively online. In art critic Regina Hackett's 2005 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article on Pioneer Square, she credits the gallery with contributing to the neighborhood's "core of cultural tolerance and open-minded experiment". The gallery attracted attention for exhibitions of works on paper as well as contemporary photography and sculpture. Platform officially closed at the end of 2023.

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Platform Gallery was a contemporary art gallery formerly located in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in historic Pioneer Square District in Downtown Seattle. It was founded in 2003 by four artists, including Stephen Lyons, who in 2008 was sole owner. In late 2016, the gallery moved from its brick and mortar space to exhibiting and selling artworks exclusively online. In art critic Regina Hackett's 2005 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article on Pioneer Square, she credits the gallery with contributing to the neighborhood's "core of cultural tolerance and open-minded experiment". The gallery attracted attention for exhibitions of works on paper as well as contemporary photography and sculpture. Platform officially closed at the end of 2023.

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  1. date of foundation: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1199958485

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