Sneak Peek

Check out the videos from Vortexhibition Polyphonica!  Below is just one of ten different videos shot right here at the Henry of staff members talking about their favorite piece in the show.  You can see them now on www.vimeo.com.  Doing my practicum for the UW Museum Studies course, I have been working here with Communications [...]

Flower Powder

Last week, while looking at the beautifully embroidered Lotus Shoes in Vortexhibition Polyphonica, I had the pleasure of talking with Henry’s Curator of Collections, Judy Sourakli, who told me some strange and cool things about these small wonders.  These are the shoes that were made for women with bound feet.  Yes, the painful disfiguring cruel [...]

COMING SOON: Videos from Vortexhibition Polyphonica

As a Museum Studies student at the UW, I have been working on a practicum project here at the Henry that involves shooting video of staff members with their favorite piece in Vortexhibition Polyphonica.  I asked people why they chose what they did and that’s what we get to see on the videos!  Some people [...]

Wow.

The Kiki Smith show I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith, is a must-see. It is beautiful. I could not quit thinking about it for days after seeing it. The art, the photographs, the sculpture, it’s all fabulous. The thing that most impressed and completely floored me is the way the photographs are [...]

Have you seen Milton Rogovin’s photos yet?

Hi, Amy Chinn here.  I wanted to share how moved I am by one of the exhibitions upstairs. The photos are beautiful. They really are. Right off the lobby, to get to the Skypace and galleries, you have to walk through the room where Happy 100th Birthday, Milton Rogovin! is showing. Visitors stop in their [...]

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 [...]