Monthly Archives: November 2010

Artdish Seeks Your Support

For ten years, Artdish has provided readers in the Northwest with full-length critical reviews of local art exhibitions, dance performance, music and theater by some of the best art critics in the region. This year Artdish became an affiliate organization of Shunpike to take advantage of its management services and not-for-profit 501(c)3 status. This arrangement [...]

Steal This Image!

Join Henry Director Sylvia Wolf, Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski, and guest artists Elizabeth Zvonar, Holly Ward, Philip Miner, and Anne Mathern on November 19, in the Henry Auditorium, for a conversation about appropriation in contemporary art practice. From European collagists in the early 1900s to contemporary installation artists who cull elements from the garbage [...]

Ver(A)rt Calling Artists for Submissions

Are you an artist or a curator? Ver(A)rt Gallery (housed in the central part of the Vera Project in Seattle Senter) is currently holding a Call to Artists to select artists for group and solo shows in the gallery throughout 2011. The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting work from new and local artists, and emerging [...]

Up and Out

In conjunction with the exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, the Henry Art Gallery will be hosting a special screening of the film Up and Out by Christian Marclay. In this feature-length video collage, Marclay uniquely couples work by Michelangelo Antonioni and Brian De Palma to create a new film, overlaying Antonioni’s 1966 [...]

Amie Siegel in Seattle (and free tickets!)

The Henry is delighted to welcome Amie Siegel to Seattle! Her work will be featured in The Talent Show, an interactive exploration of themes related to notoriety, privacy, and the tension between exhibitionism and voyeurism against the backdrop of television’s reality shows and talent competitions, as well as web-based social media that create a new [...]

Art Students Talk Tonight!

Via Slog: Art Students Talk Tonight! Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM Seattle students will lead the mayor in talking about arts education tonight, and you can go out and support and listen to them. It’s the sixth annual Arts in Education Forum—a student-directed forum. The students are Sanai [...]

November header: Hank works on his ‘stache

Check out our new Hankblog graphic illustrated by Alexandra Famisaran, winner of November’s header contest! A few words from this talented artist: “My name is Alexandra Famisaran and I’m an art student over at Cornish College of the Arts. I like animals such as birds, cats, axolotls (so ridiculous!), and other creatures that roam this [...]

FLASH POINTS: Art21

This post is an excerpt from Art21′s FLASH POINTS Blog – if your not already a reader of the Art21 Blog, I highly Recommend it! Using variable media – taking the form of tapestry and sculpture to performance, cinema, and stereoscopic imagery— William Kentridge calculates a not so obvious curve to create socially informed work that challenges the way [...]

First Thursday Art Walk: November 4, 2010

Joey Veltkamp’s Guide to First Thursday Art Walk: November 4, 2010. ALSO: City Arts’ Best Of Walk Awards will be held at Vito’s on First Hill November 4 (8:30pm). Stop by to cast your vote for which finalist you think should take home $500. Guest judges are Betsey Brock,(ME) Communications and Outreach for Henry Art Gallery andWhitney [...]

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