Marcie Sillman's weekend coronavirus culture picks, March 6-8

The rapidly evolving public health situation surrounding the novel coronavirus hits at the heart of local arts organizations. They depend on audience attendance—and ticket purchases—for a significant slice of their annual budgets.

Most local arts groups say the show will go on-for now. But check before you decide to head out.

Here are a couple of weekend highlights.

VISUAL ART

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art kicks off a four-month exhibition called “Fiber 2020” this weekend with Fiber Fest. BIMA calls it a museum-wide weekend of activities celebrating the fiber arts.

Seattle Art Museum celebrates its acquisition of Georgia O’Keefe’s painting “Music Pink and Blue No. 1” with the small exhibition “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstract Variations,” featuring early drawings and paintings as well as “Music Pink and Blue No. 2,” on loan from New York’s Whitney Museum.

SAM also opens “John Akomfrah: Future History,” its first major video art exhibition.

FILM

Langston! presents a screening of the 1997 film “Eve’s Bayou,” part of its monthly film series Fade to Black. Wednesday March 11 at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.