Art

Much has changed for Terrain since it debuted in 2007. The region’s largest multimedia art and music event started small 16 years ago.

John Johnson sees things in slabs of marble.

A drawing class at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., changed the trajectory of Gordon Wilson’s life.

Dylan Lipsker was neither an artist nor interested in art seven years ago. But after a brain injury caused him lasting severe insomnia, he found a new passion and career as one of Spokane’s most promising artists.

It is hard to keep a secret.

Aug. 17—Washington State University welcomes artist Jeffrey Gibson and his exhibition to its Schnitzer Museum. His exhibit, "Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation," will run Aug. 22 to March 9, according to a news release. It can be viewed between the museum's newly extended hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. ...

While curating the Music in Manito concerts, which are slated for Tuesday and Wednesday at Manito Park, Zuill Bailey decided to move in another direction to appeal to teens and young adults. The artistic director for Northwest Bach has tabbed the Attacca String Quartet and Simply Three, a pair of crossover classical acts, for the event.

The last time Dream Theater played Spokane, gas prices were $1.35, pop star Olivia Rodrigo was 5 months old and Arnold Schwarzenegger was months away from becoming governor of California.

Duncan Sheik never envisioned writing music for theater. That was so even after befriending playwright Steven Sater a quarter century ago.

Musicians are typically tucked away in the pit during a musical. However, the band is front and center during “Bright Star,” which runs Friday through July 23 at the Spokane Valley Summer Theatre.

When Hollywood came calling, Kim Stout answered quickly.

Picture the following: It’s a bright summer Sunday, and the air is fresh and warm. You decide to go to the pool. You grab your towel, your sunglasses, your Pizza Hut-branded bucket hat and your Arby’s Beefy Aloha swimsuit, stamped with a Hawaiian shirt pattern and images of the fast-food chain’s beef and cheddar sandwich. Your Taco Bell x Crocs slides are waiting for you at the door, along with your Rao’s Homemade sauce jar-shaped luxury purse. Later, you’ll switch it out for your sandwich-size BAGuette bag from Panera for a night out on the town.

Woodworkers from around the United States and a traditional Japanese timber framer are building a beautiful wooden bell tower to house a new bell sculpted by artist Mark Kubiak.

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a great American novelist who tackled what he regarded as great American themes: history, violence, the nature of evil, the myth of the West. His 12 novels, which remodeled the cheap set pieces of genre – especially the Western and the crime thriller – were exceptionally bloody. He wrote in two stylistic modes, per New Yorker critic James Wood: His prose could be flat or ornate, terse or maximalist. (In all cases, he tended to eschew commas.)

A new mural in the Garland District shows a lonely boy at his desk, surrounded by his colorful thoughts and silhouettes of people cheering for him.

A love letter – or perhaps it’s a love comic strip – to Spokane from Stephan Pastis? The mind behind the amusing comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” crafted a clever nod to the Lilac City.