Pierre Huyghe’s ‘UNTITLED (HUMAN MASK)’ 2014: To create this video, the French artist filmed the actual macaque waitress, Fuku-chan, where she works, a restaurant north of Tokyo. Black Box Festival brought this stunning new video to Seattle earlier this month for a premiere that happened two days before its New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Pierre Huyghe’s ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’ 2014: To create this video, the French artist filmed the actual macaque waitress, Fuku-chan, where she works, a restaurant north of Tokyo. Black Box Festival brought this stunning new video to Seattle earlier this month for a premiere that happened two days before its New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. COURTESY OF MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK / HAUSER AND WIRTH, LONDON / ESTHER SCHIPPER, BERLIN / ANNA LENA FILM, PARIS

Two hardworking women are making Seattle art history several times over this month. It happened at least three times the week of May 10. On Sunday, independent curator Julia Fryett presented the premiere of a work of art—a 19-minute video called Untitled (Human Mask) by the French artist Pierre Huyghe—two days before the piece made its debut at the behemoth Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On Thursday, Fryett received a FedEx delivery sent straight from the Museum of Modern Art to her apartment. Inside the package was a Blu-ray of the bizarre yet touching 82-minute film Tomorrow Is Always Too Long by Phil Collins (not the singer), a new work that made its American debut at MoMA—which Fryett unveiled in Seattle, too…

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...