Arts and Entertainment

Inside Edgar Arceneaux's installation Library of Black Lies, now at Henry Art Gallery.

“Between Bodies" uses multimedia, multisensory works of art to immerse us in discomfiting, sensuously beautiful encounters with other bodies. 

An exciting new voice joined the Seattle curatorial chorus in September, when Shamim M. Momin took over as senior curator of Henry Art Gallery. 
 

Contorting the imagination with choreographer Alice Gosti, ’08.

Through his G'ma Project, artist Che Sehyun (BA, English, CHID | BS, Biology, 2011) is honoring elders, ancestors and culture.

A newly discovered species of whale — found preserved in ancient rock on the Oregon coast — has been named for a University of Washington paleontologist.

UW Scandinavian Studies Department's Lotta Gavel Adams unfolds the evolution of trolls in literature from fearsome forest-dwellers to friendly beings—and back again.

A UW professor offers a complete history of Scandinavia's mythical beasts.

The work of alumni Eirik Johnson, Kristen Ramirez, and Margie Livingston, share the common thread of the natural environment and humans' relation to it in galleries throughout Seattle.

Miha Sarani (BFA, 2015), an art history graduate, began the project after seeing news of the white nationalist march in Virgina and the lack of condemnation of white supremacy that followed.

The Henry’s newest installation uses crystallized books to challenge our perceptions of history. 

Her first instillation, Edgar Arceneaux's "Library of Black Lies," explores "how history is constructed--for and by whom--and the multipicity of 'truth'"

Under the direction of conductor Julia Tai (DMA, 2010), Philharmonia Northwest presents "Seattle Sounds," representing a wide sample of composing ambitions from UW alumni.

The old Burke’s last hurrah will be a New Years Eve party.

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Professor of Art History, explains that there's no history of towering monumental poles being made by the Salish and other Puget Sound region tribes.