Monthly Archives: April 2010

These are a few of my favorite things…

If you’re up for a fun and casual art event this Friday, April 30, come on down to SAM where I’ll be giving a short tour as part of the museum’s “My Favorite Things” series. I honestly have too many favorites, so I plan to speak on a few pieces currently hanging in the contemporary [...]

Rest your weary head with Kiki Smith

Third Drawer Down, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum and Kiki Smith is launching a limited edition textile project this Saturday.  They’re pillowcases! Kiki Smith x Third Drawer Down x Brooklyn Museum On May 1st, 2010 Third Drawer Down and Brooklyn Museum will be launching a new special limited edition by Kiki Smith in conjunction [...]

Open Floor: W3AVE

This Thursday night come on out for April’s Open Floor event, W3AVE.  We will be hosting a live collaborative art session featuring 18 talented artists working in the Seattle area.  This event is organized by S3A which is a group that promotes events and artists in the alternative art scene here in our very own [...]

Three new plays, three performances, in three Henry exhibitions! Tonight @ 7:30

Last night, around 7PM, I met with three writers in Light Reign, our James Turrell Skyspace, I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith, and in Vortexhibition Polyphonica. After our meeting, these writers went home and wrote three plays – using our exhibitions as a springboard for content. This morning, we met three directors and twelve [...]

Go Dutch, next week, with Space.City

Space.City invites you to hear Dutch architect Mels Crouwel, making a special trip to Seattle from Amsterdam around volcanic clouds for this appearance: Tuesday, April 27, 6:30 pm   Seattle Public Library Microsoft Auditorium. Crouwel is one of the Netherlands’ most successful architects.  His recent career monograph, BC AD will be available for purchase and signing after [...]

Call for entries: PCNW 15th Annual Photo Competition

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Get your pocketbook ready

Next week is the School of Art’s annual art sale: Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 10am- 7pm Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 10am- 4pm Jacob Lawrence Gallery The UW School of Art sale is back!  BuyART! The University of Washington School of Art is please to announce that it is bringing back the semi-annual art sale, BuyART!  [...]

How Are You Feeling Today?

A Little Emotional? Feeling happy, tragic, or insignificant? We’ve got a tour for that. Its national poetry month and in addition to the poetry works installed here on site the Henry, in a partnership with Wave Books, has come up with a bevy of ways to make your April visit a little more poetic. On [...]

Cremaster Cycle @ SIFF

April 9-15th SIFF Cinema will be showing Matthew Barney’s epic cinematic venture,  Cremaster Cycle. You can see each cycle individually or opt for an 8 hour marathon of what Jonathan Jones refers to as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.” Artist Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle, unavailable in [...]

Picasso’s Guernica Revisited: A Lecture by T.J. Clark

Commissioned by the Spanish Republican government, Pablo Picasso’s iconic painting from 1937 pictures the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by Germany in the Spanish Civil War. By traveling Guernica around the world (to venues such as the World’s fair in Paris) Picasso successfully revealed the unknown horrors of this war. The large-scale Cubist [...]

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