Art

From staff reports

Several times throughout the state’s history, Washington has been witness to just how powerful fire can be.

DENVER — A historic 200-year-old painting of President George Washington stolen from a storage unit last year was recently recovered, according to the Englewood Police Department. The early 1800s painting was reported stolen in January 2024 from a storage facility in the 3300 block of Santa Fe Drive. It remained missing until investigators received an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip earlier this ...

On the top floor of Entropy – the art gallery, record and vintage store located downtown – Karen Mobley is showing off some “Big Doodles.”

For artist Joel Stehr, his favorite part of the creative process is “the satisfaction of having a vision in your head and coming to an end product.”

On a table in the Saranac Art Gallery, which was displaying the work of late artist Leslie LePere from Feb. 7 to March 1, sister Louise Kodis paused at a tin containing at least one hundred rainbow decal stickers, with a note above labeled “Take One.”

Spokane Falls Community College is soon opening their doors and new art studio space to Indigenous artist Inanna McCarty.

NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the seventh century B.C. was probably stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in the 1930s.

The software I use to transcribe my interviews has started naming each audio file based on the content of the interview. It’s a new thing; the files used to be called “Note” by default. It’s unnecessary, but I don’t mind it.

Local artist and educator Elise Beattie has been selected to showcase her art at the Northwest Watercolor Society’s Signature Member Exhibition in Seattle.

When Britt Rynearson was around 11 years old, she had her first art entrepreneurial experience selling handmade beaded jewelry at a local farmers market. Putting each set of earrings on their own backing card and bagging up purchases for customers was “the coolest thing” for the young artist.

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event on Monday, many of them gracing the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center stage with their poetry, paintings, dances and essays with the theme of “Powered by Courage.”

Throughout its history, Spokane has had close ties to Japan.

On a corner of each of Becker J. Gutsch’s hundreds of glass artworks is one little red dot.

Lila Girvin, a local painter who gave her art, heart and soul to support local creatives and arts organizations, died Jan. 9 at her South Hill home surrounded by family. She was 95.

In my 36th year as a photojournalist at The Spokesman-Review, I have photographed thousands of assignments for the newspaper. Most are routine, such as a high school basketball game, a dedication of a new middle school or a portrait of a community leader. Looking through the many images I made in 2024, I think my standouts are the simple, beautiful photos that I came across at unexpected times. These are a just few of my favorites.

Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.

Some people are very specific about the “right” time to focus on the holidays. There are those who start decorating as soon as Thanksgiving leftovers are in the fridge, while others aren’t in any hurry to untangle the string lights they tossed in the attic after last year’s festivities.