Compose stanzas in unknown languages all weekend at the Henry, be a bumper booster at Shorty's for international finger flippers, and give your Saturday night over to a trip back to the roaring 20s courtesy of the Conor Byrne. more ›

If you’re an art lover (or a Seattlest reader, which you are, right?) and you’ve been around the Emerald City arts community for any length of time, chances are you’ve come across a SuttonBeresCuller (SBC) installation. more ›

What's more American than loving art? Probably a lot of things. But if you're looking to skip the fireworks in favor of films, books an visual displays that still celebrate the Land of the Free, we've got you covered there, too. more ›

Rogovin, who turns 100 on December 30, is an heir to the legacy of social documentary photographers like Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis, who--armed with a camera and driven by conscience--worked to document the lives of people whom much of society had ignored or taken for granted. Rogovin's series on Appalachian miners, taken from 1962-1987, are particularly impressive. more ›

Monday night, South African artist William Kentridge sold out a performance/lecture at Kane Hall. By the time we arrived forty minutes early for the 7:30 event, a line of almost two hundred people were already snaked from the doors to the lecture hall, up the stairs and around the second floor. more ›

MyBallard points out an APB for Spewie, the purloined gargoyle. At the Henry Art Gallery, jobs are reportedly disappearing like unattended Rembrandts. And every day, the newspaper industry gets a little more grotesque: Reporter Newspapers, the chain of suburban weeklies owned by Canadian businessman David Black, laid off their photographers today, including a friend of Seattlest. more ›

7:00 p.m. // The Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, West Edge of the UW campus on 15th Avenue NE // Free more ›

Seattle's Alliance Française--cheese-eating commies, the lot of them, but what would we do without those fabulous sauces?--is celebrating the graphic novel (or "bande dessinée") this week. Things kick off Wednesday at the Alliance Française with an introduction to 20 giants of the genre by Fantagraphics's Kim Thompson. (Not for kids! they say.) Then Thursday is a screening of the documentary Tintin et moi at the Northwest Film Forum. This will disabuse you of the notion that Europeans aren't racist, imperialist pigs just like us. Friday it's down to Fantagraphics to Meet David B. and his art, then Saturday it's David B. again giving at talk at the Seattle Central Library. Sunday David B. joins Jim Woodring and Peter Bagge at the Henry Art Gallery, for a talk moderated by Kim Thompson. Ça y est! more ›

When the creativity faucet is on full blast, it can get tricky to turn it off--so these 25 local artists aren't even going to try. Instead, they have signed up to participate in a 24-hour art marathon in a beautiful old building in Georgetown, presented to the general public by CoCA for the 16th year in a row. By the time you read this, the marathon will have commenced; there are still twenty-some hours to pay your $25 (or $50 with wine and dinner) and get in on the silent and live auctions. This weekend's also the monthly Georgetown Art Attack--seems like it has potential to be quirky and interesting, right? Everybody loves arting in Georgetown! more ›

ART/MUSIC DIALOGUE: Cross your artistic boundaries when World music KEXP DJ Jon Kertzer and UW School of Music Professor Philip Schulyer dialogue about how Algerian music influenced and shaped a current Henry Art Gallery exhibit by French-Algerian Kader Attia. more ›

FACT: Founded in 1927, the Henry is the oldest public art museum in Washington State. Take that, SAM! more ›

It seems that everyone in town is buzzing about Maya Lin's new exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. Personally, we only really know Lin through her premiere memorial in DC, and, really, there is no denying the power and simplicity of that work. There is, however, great scope to her work. The Vietnam Memorial launched her career, but she is also responsible for another simple, powerful monument--the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Creating works which inspire reflection and hope without trivializing the events they commemorate is a difficult line to walk. With the amount of criticism she endured from her first project, her own resilience has also become a subtext of her work. In fact, the 1995 Academy Award winner for best documentary, A Strong Clear Vision, revealed that resilience and exposed the sensitive soul that accompanies it. more ›

Tucked away through an easy to miss doorway, the skyspace appears, from just outside, to be a goofy, oddly painted kind of storage room. "Is this it?" we said to the bored UW student posing as a security guard, but she was too busy staring at the floor to respond. Inside, the exceptionally bright and clean walls and hand carved wood benches are precisely shaped to mess with the viewers sense of space: the room feels small and large at the same time, drawing you in to figure out why (We stopped to review what substances might have been in that post-lunch brownie, but confirmed the sensations were created entirely by the space itself). more ›

It was just a single line in the weekly newsletter from the Northwest Film Forum, but it set Seattlest's heart a-flutter: more ›