Othello (paintings) Othello (paintings) Othello is a series of paintings executed in 1985 by Nabil Kanso. The subjects of the paintings are loosely based on Shakespeare’s tragedy "Othello". The series comprises 60 paintings dealing with themes of love, race, jealousy, betrayal, and evil. They depict scenes embodying compositions of figural and metaphorical imagery that may be seen as visually reflecting the intimate and dramatic relationship between Othello and Desdemona, and the tense and uneasy relation that passes between and through Othello, Desdemona and Iago. The "Othello" paintings depict a sequence of figural images with oil and acrylic on canvases and paperboards ranging
Othello station southeast corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street in 2011. A second phase of the project, the 355-apartment "Othello North", will be built on the north side of Othello Street and open in 2017. An additional low-income housing project was built north of Myrtle Street by Mercy Housing on surplus land used for equipment staging, which was auctioned by Sound Transit for $1.9 million in 2014. The 108-apartment building opened in July 2017, with its lowest rents at $450 per month. The southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street was planned to be