A superb tale is always worth the retelling…with Puppets.

The Handspring Puppet Company, founded in Cape Town in 1981 by  Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, started working with William Kentridge in 1992 on the award winning production of Woyzeck on the Highveld. Since then the company has collaborated on a number of multi-media works.  first performed in 1998 at the KunstenFESTIVAL des Arts in [...]

Please silence your cell phones, iPods, corduroy pants, and crinoline dresses.

BRIAN MILLER from the Seattle Weekly tunes into + Room – Room here at the Henry. The trick to appreciate this collaboration between Yann Novak and Jamie Drouin is to walk back and forth between the two rooms (which consist of white walls, benches, and speakers) and listen for the difference. The two visiting artists [...]

Cat On Mat = You Throw Darts

Abstraction through Wiki – Inspired by editing hours of audio for our new Henry ArtCast,  Jacob Dahlgren: Signs of abstraction. Cat on Mat (picture 1) the arrow between the agent and CAT:Elsie depicts an example of an is-a relationship, as does the arrow between the location and the MAT. The arrows between the gerund SITTINGagent [...]

The New York Times Thinks We’re Special

WE  = University Museums, that is. University museums are unlike other museums. They are not intended to be powerhouse displays of masterworks, though some have their share of these. They are, before all else, teaching instruments intended for hands-on use by students and scholars…The august public museum gave us fabulousness. The tucked-away university gallery gave [...]

Congratulations On The Boards

Kudos, OTB, for an amazingly successful Intermission Impossible last Friday. It breaks my heart to have stayed home with food poisoning while Seattle’s best and brightest were spinning this brain-searing magic.  I hear it was pretty freaking incredible. Now, for your viewing pleasure, Western Bridge’s Eric Fredericksen brings it: Maybe you’re amazed, and you want [...]

Color of the Day

Wednesday Night – Pecha Kucha it up

(That sounds slightly dirty, no? It’s not.) Pecha Kucha Night V. 10, Take Part in Art – Curated by Artist Trust Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 – Ouch My Eye 6:00 PM Artist Trust and Pecha Kucha Night Seattle have teamed up for the ArtsFund “Take Part in Art Festival!” We’ve assembled an incredible roster of [...]

Museo del Prado – on Google Earth

The Prado announced a while back that it will be posting high resolution photos of their collection online through Google Earth.  You can fly around the Prado 2nd life style and take a detailed look at works from the former Spanish Royal Collection. Viewing a Velasquez or a Rembrandt in a place like Spain’s Prado [...]

A Schizophrenic Poetic Robert Frank Road Movie

A Robert Frank movie – featuring a very young Christopher Walken! It’s showing tomorrow and Thursday – catch it while you can. (Oh, how I wish it were this Robert Frank movie. Maybe someday….) Check it out: Me and My Brother Part of the yearlong 1969 series February 18-19 at 8pm The first feature film [...]

I’m a little bit Kountry, a little bit Rock and Roll.

Roy McMakin is currently featured in Wallpaper, Designboom, Dezeen, and The Evening Standard for his London exhibition Another Kountry at Established and Sons. Who came to the exhibition opening? In addition to these arty design pubs and blogs – Hello Magazine was there taking pictures of Mary and Stella McCartney: