PARIS – The Louvre announced Monday it had selected a team of French, German and American architects to design its ambitious expansion project, which will transform one of the world’s foremost museums but has faced mounting criticism because of its cost.
Since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, the Smithsonian has been the administration’s favored target for its new museum-focused culture war against diversity and inclusion, and narratives of U.S. history that include the ugly truth of slavery, Native American genocide and the ongoing struggle for the rights of women, Latinos, Asian Americans, immigrants, LGBT communities and others.
At 11, Tim Bovard undertook his first taxidermy experiment on a piece of roadkill. He had found an unlucky skunk and improvised its reanimation using an instruction book, much to the alarm of his friends’ parents.
The Inland Northwest’s largest plein air art festival is growing, relocating and rebranding this year, with the former Brush on the Bluff event transforming into the Forest to Frame festival at Finch Arboretum on Saturday.
Growing up, artist Liv Hebert Watkins saw the dinner table as a holy space, a place of community. Her parents, both artists, were inclusive and inviting, so there were often people Hebert Watkins didn’t know seated around the table, transforming a simple piece of furniture into a symbol of openness and sharing.
Not enough time, too many distractions, no clue what to create – there can be a lot of reasons to not pick up the pen, the paintbrush, the instrument collecting dust in the corner.
Most people see Spokane’s West Plains as a wide-open plateau of flood blasted basalt and grasslands surrounding marshes and clusters of pines topped off with a lot of airplanes. The winds sweep across it, and the frosts come early. Among this rugged landscape, however, are people who have built close knit communities that look after each other and celebrate their friendships. And their art.
For too long, we have treated public safety as if it begins and ends with arrest, prosecution and incarceration. It does not. Public safety is determined by what happens next.
I am a firm nonbeliever when it comes to the cult of John F. Kennedy, but like an atheist admiring the King James Bible, even I can appreciate some of the Kennedy scriptures. So as our latest lunar mission circles back to Earth, I found myself revisiting the speech at Rice University that launched us moonward. In that address, Kennedy declared that America would be ascending to the moon for the same reason that mountain climbers attempt Everest: because “space is there, and we’re going to climb it.”
Horror movies about what lies beneath the ocean’s surface pack a unique dread. Films such as “Underwater,” “The Abyss,” “Sphere” and “DeepStar Six” all depict dark or slithery monsters, hellbent on human destruction.
For Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, the Spokane Print and Publishing Center co-founder and board member, Spokane Print Fest is about all creating awareness of printmaking.
In a 1937 letter to Herbert Kimbrough, dean of Washington State College’s School of Music and Fine Arts, abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still wrote, “During the summer of 1936, while (colleague Worth Griffin) and I were painting on the Indian reservations in the State of Washington, we were struck by the abundance of valuable and colorful material that is offered the creative worker. We came to the conclusion that something should be done to bring this material more forcibly to the attention of the people of the state, and potential artists, in particular, in a way that is not possible in the class rooms at the State College...”
The way a piece of art is interpreted depends on who’s looking at it. The viewer may be spot on with the artist’s intension or they might see something the artist never considered.
When D. Lish’s Burgers owner Hunter Schertz stumbled upon pictures of Mindy Allen’s brilliant artwork on Facebook, he knew she would be the perfect chef to add a pinch of creative charm to the exterior facade of his North Division Street restaurant.
It happens sometimes that after spending enough time with someone, a friend or co-worker, you begin to dress alike. You show up to the office only to find you’re both wearing stripes, or you meet for coffee and see your friend wearing a similar shade.
