Green Work

I wish my three minute artist videos were as cinematic as this one. Enjoy… the end is the best part. Amazing “clean” work by Moose. Video by Doug Pray.

Chinese Paper Cuts at Suzzallo

I was strolling through Suzzallo Library today when I noticed that there is a new exhibition going up in Room 102 (it’s on the left after you walk through the main entrance). It is an exhibition of Chinese paper cut art called Cutting Ribbons for the Olympics. The theme of the show is Chinese folk [...]

DXARTS Video Screening Tonight

UP: DXARTS Undergraduate Student Video Wednesday, May 21, 5 PM Henry Auditorium FREE DXARTS presents a special screening of video shorts created by students in the course “Experiments in Digital Video: The Architecture of Time.” These works are final projects from this intensive, year-long sequence that explores the ideas and methods from the beginnings of [...]

Animation on the streets

More video! This one has been posted around the interwebs this week, and I thought it should be seen on Hankblog. It’s a wall-painted animation called Muto, and it’s by Blu, a street artist from Bologna, Italy. This is a pretty amazing clip, not to be missed. Blu is one of several artists that will create giant murals on [...]

SANAA in NYC

I recently discovered that Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) are now showing their work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The show goes until June 15. SANAA designed the new New Museum building, which appears as a stack of boxes, each one shifted off-center from the level above or below [...]

Seeing the Big Bang

Here’s another informative lecture hosted by the Henry! If you are a fan of Josiah McElheny’s The Last Scattering Surface, you won’t want to miss this one. Seeing the Big Bang: Lecture by Thomas Quinn Thursday, May 15, 7 PM Auditorium FREE Josiah McElheny brings together the diverse fields of conceptual art, studio art and [...]

MFA Solo Shows at the CMA

Since the Master of Fine Arts annual exhibition opens in one week, we thought you would be interested to know that some of the artists will also have solo shows at the Ceramic and Metal Arts (CMA) Gallery at the UW (4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive – Google Map). Each artist will have an opening [...]

The Gates: Screening at the Henry this Saturday

The Gates Saturday, May 10, 2 PM FREE In 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed The Gates, one of the largest art installations created in history. Beginning with footage from the artists’ first announcement of the project in 1979, this new HBO documentary by renowned filmmakers Albert Maysles and Antonio Ferrera chronicles the 25 years Christo [...]

Nine Spaces, Nine Trees

As a University of Washington student, I pass by the Henry Art Gallery and continue through the western entrance of the campus fairly often. I’m a somewhat recent transplant to Seattle, so when the installation of Robert Irwin’s Nine Spaces, Nine Trees began (on the lawn immediately to the east of the Henry), I didn’t [...]

Save the Date: The Violet Hour Opening Celebration

The Violet Hour Opening Celebration: Friday, June 20, 8pm Member and Patron Preview: 6pm Food, Drinks & Summer Revelry in the Henry’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Sculpture Court Live music by Zeke Keeble! FREE Members $8 Students & Seniors $10 General Admission The Violet Hour is curated by Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski. Major support is [...]