Art

Photographer Frank Sakae Matsura spent less than a decade in northern Washington state in the early 20th century but left an unforgettable visual legacy of the Okanogan River Valley.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will lead a sold-out workshop Friday at Central Library and discuss poetry Saturday at the Bing Crosby Theater with local poets Laura Read and Gabrielle Bates for EWU's 25th annual Get Lit! Festival. 

This weekend's concerts by the Spokane Symphony, however, did not follow the customary template.  They began with one of the most challenging – technically, intellectually and spiritually – concertos ever written, and followed that with a work requiring huge resources that comprises the final profound utterance of one of history's greatest musical geniuses.

From staff reports

The installation looming at the entrance to Humaira Abid’s solo exhibition at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture appears to be a treacherous, life-sized barbed wire fence. What makes the skin-ripping obstacle impossibly beautiful is the realization that the Seattle-based artist hand-carved each individual barb from wood.

Do you save the colorful paper that is wrapped on your roll of toilet paper? The wrapping is lightweight and ideal to use as origami paper.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse standing proud atop the Oregon cliffside. Golden wheat fields rolling across the Palouse in Washington. The clear, blue waters lapping at the shores of Idaho’s Redfish Lake. For over 30 years, Andy Sewell has brought scenes from the American Northwest to life with his paintbrush.

You can find them in area parks, on hiking trails, tucked into Little Free Libraries and even at Cancer Care Northwest facilities – small pieces of artwork, free to the finder.

Art collections by members of the Columbia Plateau tribes and South African women are coming to the MAC. 

Specialization is the norm in much of America today. So there is a level of surprise when someone is a master of a number of disciplines.

Jan. 18—Growing up in Missouri, Jamilee Lacy used to travel to Seattle to visit extended family over the summer. With a hometown the size of Fayette, which currently has a population under 3,000, Lacy said she considered Seattle her "first city." Years later, Lacy is preparing to make Seattle her new home as she takes the reins as executive director of the Frye Art Museum on March 1, ...

A leopard appears at the top of a wall before making his way to center stage and breaking out in dance. Colorful toucans flit about the stage, and a pair of ring-tailed coatis make mischief.

An iconic store closing a generation ago can’t kill a holiday tradition.

Mayra Gallo showed up at her restaurant in Greenville, S.C., several days ago and couldn't believe what she saw: Her Santa decoration - which she made and placed in front of her eatery as part of a holiday display - was gone. Someone had snatched it.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An Oakland woman last week sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, claiming it bought then secretly sold a Vincent van Gogh painting the Nazis stole from her grandmother. 

BrrrZAAR, the local winter art market put on by the nonprofit Terrain, returns to River Park Square on Saturday with 70 vendors offering their locally made wares. It's the fourth iteration of the event, which is intended to showcase local artistic talent and offer a variety of fairly priced, handcrafted gifts for shoppers, said Ginger Ewing, executive director and cofounder of the nonprofit.

Are you ready for Christmas? More than 2,600 kids ages 4 to 19 sure are. They made drawings that were turned into ornaments to hang on 58 trees around the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. You can see them along the Pathway of Peace in President’s Park near the White House.