Today is the day!

Happy Birthday, Milton Rogovin! Today Milton Rogovin turned 100 years old. To commemorate his life’s work, the Henry organized an exhibition of Rogovin’s photographs. Come check it out! If only we allowed food in the galleries… cupcakes and champagne sound delightful! Some notable facts on Rogovin’s life and career: 1. Rogovin bought his first camera [...]

Is the work shocking?

“Yes – it’s shockingly small and shockingly beautiful.” A line from Victoria Josslin’s very perceptive review of Polaroids: Mapplethorpe for ArtDish. Read the whole thing here.

Happy Birthday, Patti Smith! January = Patti Smith Extravaganza

Patti Smith was born December 30, 1946. How are you going to celebrate her birthday? Tonight at 9 PBS station KCTS (click here for the National sched.), broadcasts Patti Smith: Dream of Life. “Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an intimate portrait of the legendary [...]

Nudes, flowers, friends: Polaroids: Mapplethorpe in the Stranger

“If you want a Robert Mapplethorpe to love, you need the early Polaroids. The Polaroids are the warmest and the hottest things he ever made, these fuzzy palm-sized original prints of him and his friends and lovers in the zone between playing and posing. Each one, whether it’s a naked self-portrait—he’s hooded and chained, staring [...]

TONIGHT: Retracing Robert Frank at the Northwest Film Forum

Copyright John Cohen/Courtesy Deborah Bell Photographs, New York. Tuesday, Dec 22 at 07:00PM Tuesday, Dec 22 at 08:30PM Wednesday, Dec 23 at 07:00PM Wednesday, Dec 23 at 08:30PM (buy tickets here) More than 50 years ago, in 1958, Robert Frank’s seminal book, The Americans, was published to great acclaim—as well as to negative reviews that [...]

Interview with Salvatore Salamone, Costume Designer and Yes Men Collaborator

On the occasion of the museum’s screening of the Yes Men (Tonight! @ 7 PM): An interview with Salvatore Salamone, costume designer extraordinaire and Yes Men collaborator.  (Yes, this is the man behind the Management Leisure Suit and Survival Ball costumes.) Salvatore, who is based in Los Angeles, has contributed his costume design skills to [...]

Opening Friday Evening: The Atlas of Gifted Ideas

The Atlas of Gifted Ideas Opening this Friday, 7pm The Gift Shop An atlas is usually a collection of maps, charts and tables, most commonly of the earth’s geography, but there are also atlases of the solar system, moons and planets and things further out. In the end, an atlas is a collection of visual [...]

Paint the Town!

Projections: Margie Livingston and Matthew Offenbacher Paint the Town This projections event examines the current state of painting in contemporary art and culture. Seattle artists Margie Livingston and Matthew Offenbacher will moderate an evening of short slide presentations by local painters, focusing on what people are currently looking at and thinking about, creating an idiosyncratic [...]

Argentina: Hope in Hard Times – Screening Tomorrow Night

Argentina: Hope in Hard Times (2005) is  Seattle filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young’s documentary of the creative and inspiring grassroots effort to rebuild communities in the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001 economic collapse. Join in the processions and protests, attend street-corner neighborhood assemblies, visit workers’ cooperatives and urban gardens, and take a close-up look at [...]

The Henry Hosts Big Brothers Big Sisters

Last Saturday, the Henry education team paired one of our favorite high school programs – the longstanding Roosevelt High School Partnership program, through which museum staff train Roosevelt students to lead public gallery tours – with a champion group of matches from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. (A Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) [...]