Laura Stebbins
“Thanks for coming to my workout,” said the breathless performance artist after completing one of his larger-than-life portrait paintings.
The artist was David Garibaldi, and he completed several of his large portraits of pop icons at Iowa State’s After Dark...
Why are we fascinated by gangsters, thugs and criminals? Even tales nearly 100 years old can attract large audiences, as seen when the Dexter Roundhouse was recently packed with people wanting to hear again the bloody stories of Bonnie...
“I want statistics to look sexy.”
That’s what an Iowa State University statistics professor once told visual artist Thomas Rosborough he wanted to see in the mural planned for Snedecor Hall, home of the ISU statistics department. Rosborough recalled the...
The popular Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead, was celebrated at the Des Moines Art Center Sunday, Nov. 1, with ceremonies honoring longtime community volunteer Aurora (Boli) Bejarano Lumadue, who died in 2014 at age 84.
The popular, life-affirming event...
Robert B. Reich, former labor secretary in the Clinton administration and current chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, spoke this month at the...
Minions, monkeys and a monster—Oh, my!
Head to Chariton, Iowa, and the surrounding area for the fourth annual Lucas County Hay Bale Art Contest. The creative designs vary from several rectangular bales forming Snoopy atop his dog house to many...
“A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated…Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner...
My dad was less than impressed on our first visit to the Crazy Horse Memorial decades ago.
It was hard to imagine Crazy Horse on the rock in front of us, the monumental task ahead of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, the...
All the elements of the traditional West were in play: mounted riders speeding across the grassland gathering and directing buffalo, a rising cloud of dust created by the running herd, the neighs of horses, the crack of whips, and...
Maybe every presidential candidate campaigning in Iowa should be required to speak from or at least spend some time wandering through the beautiful Cowles Commons at Third and Locust streets in Des Moines and pondering the 10 peace quotations...