Department of Safety: Culturing Anacortes Since 2002

Department of Safety, in Anacortes Washington, first opened in 2002 as an arts and events space that focused on  Sustainability, Art/Creativity, Community, Phenomenology, and making real some ideas they believe in. The DoS will soon  be closing its doors after 8 years of noteworthy exhibitions, events,  site-specific installations, residencies, and extensive show calender. There will [...]

A tiny Tiny Vipers playlist

This playlist is offered as a sweet concession to The Stranger’s 1/19 “Up and Coming” comment: “The Henry curators really ought to be providing Fortino-stocked iPods for their patrons to serve as audio guides for the trance-inducing grandeur of Eirik Johnson’s massive (and massively devastating) photographs. I guess we’ll have to “settle” for this affordable [...]

Corsets: Handmade, Manmade, and Man-worn

In October, Val Mayse brought her University of Washington corset-making class to the Collections Study Center to look at and draw inspiration from a selection of the nearly 40 corsets (dating from 1800 to 1960)  in the Henry’s Costumes and Textiles Collection. (For more information about this collection, including a Google Earth tour of where [...]

Sending my good vibes across the border

This show,  An Invitation to An Infiltration, opens tonight in Vancouver, BC. I am sending it all my good vibes. From the CAG’s site: An ideal context for an examination of the competitive nature of group exhibitions is during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Organized by guest curator Eric Fredericksen, An Invitation to An Infiltration [...]

Tiny Vipers, Crystal Hell Pool, tomorrow, here.

The ovely folks at the stranger wrote a nice little piece about the upcoming Tiny Vipers | Crystal Hell Pool performance this friday at 7pm. The haunting, spare music of Tiny Vipers (aka local folkie Jesy Fortino) is an eerily perfect match for the Henry’s current Sawdust Mountain exhibit. The Henry curators really ought to [...]

New in The Gift Shop >> Moonlight Requisition: Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher

Moonlight Requisition: Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher The Gift Shop at the The Henry Art Gallery On view Saturday, January 23rd through February 14. Get a big sink from the GSA. Paint a WPA-esque documentary-historical-heroic painting. With homemade soap. Anti-bacterial communal hand-washing station with homemade soap. With a gum sculpture. Home-made gum: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chewing-Gum. [...]

Just Kids

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe ends 1/31/10 at the Henry. Patti Smith reads at Benaroya Hall for Seattle Arts and Lectures in less than a week. This post urges you to see the exhibition, and hear her read and perform next week. These work of these two artists is remakably intertwined. From last week’s New York Magazine feature [...]

UW Department of Architecture Lecture Series Winter Quarter

Two free architecture talks – Friday 22 January, Marc Simmons | Front Inc; and Thursday 11 February, Tod Williams | Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Details after the jump.

What are you looking at?

I’m Amy Chinn, currently a museum studies student, and I’m working with Betsey in Communications and Outreach this quarter. I read today, on Beth’s Blog that Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web. What are you looking at? Are you following the Henry on Twitter? Are you a fan on [...]

Final Week for the Atlas of Gifted Ideas

The Atlas of Gifted Ideas Last chance ! This week: Thur, Fri 11am – 9pm Sat, Sun 11am – 4pm at the Gift Shop Henry Art Gallery 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 [...]