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Les and Carolyn Stephens never intended to become art collectors. The longtime Spokane residents first began acquiring art in the 1970s as a way to...

Maryam Arslan creates portraits of decadent comfort foods saturated with sugar and grease. As long as art has been made, artists have found in food an endlessly elastic metaphor. From Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s illusory paintings of royal portraits as heaps of fruits and vegetables, to artists’ depictions of lavish banquets for wealthy patrons, food and art are remarkably intertwined and have appeared in myriad contexts over centuries. Autumn (1573), Guiseppe Arcimboldo Even after hundreds of y...