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FACT: Founded in 1927, the Henry is the oldest public art museum in Washington State. Take that, SAM! FACT: Horace C. Henry was fond of French and American landscape paintings. He founded the Henry with his 172-piece collection, a hefty endowment, and his OK for the museum to move beyond the works he'd collected and showcase contemporary art. Fellow museum founders the Fryes, on the other hand, required their museum to display the works they'd collected for all time. FACT:......

No comments, just schedules. (Because we're lazy, that's why.) At Center on Contemporary Art, 410 Dexter Ave. N.: Wednesday 11/9: Charles Burns promotes Black Hole at 7 p.m. (More details below.) At Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 South Main Street: Tuesday 11/8: Joshua Wolf Shenk promotes Lincoln's Melancholy at 7:30 p.m. Thursday 11/10: Dan Savage promotes The Commitment at 7:30 p.m. Friday 11/11: Doug Peacock promotes Walking It Off at 6 p.m. Friday 11/11: Daniel Quinn promotes Tales of Adam......

Seattle native Charles Burns will appear at the Center on Contemporary Art Wednesday to sign copies of and promote the new Pantheon collection of his 12-issue comic book series Black Hole, originally published in stapled pamphlet form by everyone's favorite local funny-book manufacturing concern. While most everyone recognizes Burns as the mastermind behind everything from the slick album cover art for Iggy Pop and Believer magazine, as well as those weird Altoid ads, few people know that he is also the real life......