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The Museum of Northwest Art’s permanent collection takes center stage in the exhibit “Re Building: Celebrating the Role of the Permanent Collection in Building Up MoNA’s Significance, Past and Present.” That mouthful of a title identifies the 40 year commitment to “building up and cementing the reputation of the institution as a remarkable repository of the modern and contemporary trajectory of Northwest art” as the website states.

Through September visitors can view a sampling of over 2,400 artworks ranging across all media and spanning from the early 1900s to the present. The...