Charles and Emma Frye were Seattle collectors with reactionary Old World taste in painting. They left behind a flawed collection with a seriously large $92 million endowment, and now the institution’s new handlers have jumped both feet into the 21st Century with advnturous shows. “What is the frye’s core audience thinking? In a twinkling, rip van winkle became a wide-awake laboratory of contemporary experiment. Put another way, the frye time-traveled from a stuffy 19th century to a progressive 21st, without stopping, even to refuel, in the 20th.”