Sneak preview at 911 tomorrow evening!

The whole scoop, for your reading pleasure, below. Find out more at 911 Media Arts, too.

A post from guest blogger Claire Fox (SHAG  - Student / Henry Advisory Group Member) and also the Northwest Film Forum’s Bike-in Intern. This is an incredible event. Don’t miss it. Unless you’re in Anacortes at What-the-Heck-Fest, which is a perfectly reasonable excuse, and maybe the only one.

The Seattle Bike-In is a community-based art project using filmmaking as a tool for expressing the importance of alternative transportation and community-driven development. As in years past, we’ll be encouraging people to bike to the event and will be setting up tables for organizations such as 20/20, Bikeworks, Sierra Club, and World Naked Bike Riders to distribute information. In this way, the Bike-In will inform area residents on a number of community-based resources and businesses that are working to make bicycling a safe and enjoyable activity for all in the community. Local political leaders will be invited to partake in the evening in order to get to know their constituents community concerns, particularly in regard to alternative transportation. We’ll also have music provided by the Vera Project and will try, as usual, to include a community potluck.

This year’s event is looking particularly stellar as the Bike-In and Sustainable Capitol Hill’s sustainability fair, called Imagine Capitol Hill, will be complementing each other nicely as an all-day community gathering. We’ve also got a great movie lined up: Jørgen Leth’s A Sunday in Hell, a classic documentation of the Paris-Roubaix bike race.

In hopes of making the Bike-In as successful as possible, we’d love to see the Henry community come and participate at this event. Form a bike gang and come over to Cal Anderson together, and we can do the same on the way home. Bring dishes for the potluck, come hang out with other bike enthusiasts, take a nap in our area of the park so we look like we have even more of a crowd, or dude, just come and hang out. It’s going to be a grand old time. And the movie is great. I mean, it’s Jorgen Leth! Have you seen The Five Obstructions?

Just received an announcement for an interesting program coming up this week:

Art and the Environment: A Dialogue

Olympic Sculpture Park

PACCAR Pavilion

Thursday, July 17, 2008

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

College of Architecture and Urban Planning Dean Daniel Friedman will join panelists Peter Boal, artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet; Maggie Walker, Seattle arts and environment advocate; and SuttonBeresCuller, representing Northwest artists, in a July 17 panel discussion entitled “Art and the Environment: A Dialogue,” co-hosted by the Seattle Art Museum and the Cascade Land Conservancy. The discussion, moderated by political journalist Michael Kinsley, focuses on common interests of the arts community and environmentalists in conserving critical landscapes and creating vibrant urban spaces.

The free event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17 in the PACCAR Pavilion at the Olympic Sculpture Park. To reserve a space, email boxoffice@seattleartmuseum or call the SAM Box Office at 206-654-3121.

Sheila Farr’s thoughtful review here.

This was at the Henry in 1985, I think.
Thanks, Shu and Joe! (Nice blog on art, architecture, design, and culture)

I love art that keeps working in my brain long after it goes away. Check out Regina Hackett’s new post on Art To Go, Kader Attia: The wow afterthought.

Artist Lecture: Matthew Buckingham
Friday, July 11, 6:30 PM
Auditorium
FREE to members; $5 general admission
Tickets available at the Henry Admission Desk beginning July 3; seating is limited.

Images: Matthew Buckingham. Everything I Need. 2007. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist; Matthew Buckingham. False Future. 2007. Film projection. Courtesy of the artist. Matthew Buckingham. The Spirit and the Letter. 2007. Continuous video projection with sound. Mary Wollstonecraft:Kate Miles. Courtesy of Film and Video Umbrella. Photo: Romain Forquy

Join us at the opening celebration of Play the Story and hear exhibiting artist Matthew Buckingham discuss his unique process of unearthing and reconsidering distinct historical moments and what they have to tell us about present day concerns.

Members: For your free Matthew Buckingham lecture tickets and to RSVP for the Members’ Reception following the lecture, please call 206.616.8783 or email specialevent@henryart.org Not a member? Join or renew online here.

It’s shaping up to be an arty weekend, for sure, despite the sunshine, and that the temperature in Lake Washington is no longer unbearable for swimming. Friday is Matthew Buckingham’s lecture at the Henry, and the first chance to see Play the Story. Saturday, (I cannot think of a lovelier place to spend a summer evening) Crawl Space opens Remake, a new show of works by guest artist Mike Bray.

Check it out (the video takes a minute or so to load - be patient):