In May 2025, the Henry Art Gallery introduced a free admission model for all prospective visitors. The model was made possible through a $162,000 grant donated by 4Culture, a cultural funding agency ...

After 20 years as director of the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, Richard Andrews announced that he will leave the institution in February. The longest serving director in the Henry’s 80 ...

There’s something new on every floor of the Henry Art Gallery this fall — and that includes some video you can actually walk on as it’s projected on the parquet beneath you. Here’s what’s on offer.

So much is going on at the Henry right now, it’s kind of sick. First of all, there’s James Turrell’s “Knowing Light,” otherworldly chambers of light that throw wide the doors of perception, and ...

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington is known for encouraging students to take charge, experiment and learn. And since 1999, instructors at the gallery have encouraged students to ...

This article appears in print in the November 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Shamim Momin arrives at a time when many artists, arts administrators and museums are feeling a new sense of urgency ...

James Turrell's paintings look as if he sprays them on the air. In a sense, he does. His "paintings" are really light projections, and his installations are celestial charts. The University of ...

HAMMOND — Dennis J. Leise grabbed his steel-bodied resonator guitar, slung it over his shoulder with a strap made from "do not cross" police tape and took the stage before the packed house. He started ...

First, an apology: If you’re reading this column, you’re probably expecting a live-music review and recapitulation—and you’re well within your rights to expect such a thing, but at David Byrne’s I ♥ ...

Spring has sprung, and the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery has turned flirtatious. If bees do it, why can't buildings? Because they can't, and nobody wants to see them try. And yet the ...