Police say Gene Hackman's death 'suspicious enough' to probe
Police say Gene Hackman's death 'suspicious enough' to probe
February 28, 2025 | 8:39 AM GMT
Police said Feb. 27 that actor Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead alongside a dog in their Santa Fe home, calling their deaths 'suspicious.'
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Aligning itself with contemporary art reminds non-Natives that the Muckleshoot–all Indigenous people–are contemporary. That they don't exist solely in textbooks and sepia photographs. That Muckleshoot people, and culture, and art are every bit as contemporary as anything or anyone else. The Question The Leviathan exhibit – A large-scale kinetic sculpture by Casey Curran. Jim Bennett Photo Bakery for Cannonball Arts Lundgren was born and raised in Seattle in the 1970s. He's been an arts curator and producer in town for 30 years. He's consumed by a nagging question. 'In the 90s, we had 13 art critics and a lot less money. In 2025, we have maybe two art critics and a lot more money,' Lundgren said. 'How did Seattle get so much bigger, so much richer, and our art community is diminishing? There's got to be a way that you can grow your creative class alongside the growth of a city.' That's the question Lundgren dedicates his professional life to solving. 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(Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images Seattle suffers from the same phony accusations hurled at many big cities in America: dangerous, derelict, drugged out. Kernels of reality and anecdote spun into gospel and motif by media and politicians rooting for the failure of cities. Rooting for the failure of urbanism and liberalism and diversity. 'My mom lives in Bellevue, across the lake from Seattle, and in Bellevue, (the belief is) downtown Seattle is filled with drug addicts, and you're going to get shot or robbed, or step over somebody that's on the nod, that the downtown core is hollowed out because of the pandemic, and that there's no nightlife, there's no energy,' Lundgren explains. 'The narrative of downtown Seattle is that it's shitty, the same narrative that San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles and parts of Portland have.' Lies. Not that the truth matters anymore to huge sections of the country. The truth is, Seattle's downtown is gorgeous. And safe. Full of world class attractions like the Space Needle, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Pop Culture, the Wing Luke Museum–America's only pan-Asian art and history museum–Olympic Sculpture Park with its magnificent Alexander Calder Eagle, Chihuly Garden and Glass. Alexander Calder's 'The Eagle' sculpture with Space Needle in background. Chadd Scott An $806 million renovation of Seattle's central waterfront begun in 2010 wraps up this year. A $100-plus million expansion of Seattle Aquarium served as centerpiece. 'The (roof) of the new aquarium became this deck with panoramic views of the Olympics (Mountains) and of Elliot Bay that connects the front end of Pike Place Market to the waterfront,' Lundgren explained. 'Everything feels so well considered and well built. I walk down to the waterfront now and I'm like, 'This is fantastic!' I'm such a critical person when it comes to urban design and architecture, and it is just spectacular.' Field Architecture, the firm responsible for New York's High Line, arguably the most influential urban redevelopment project in America over the last 50 years, handled the waterfront's new design. 'The pandemic was rough for everybody, and fentanyl was rough on a lot of American cities, but I have fallen in love with downtown Seattle all over again from being down here,' Lundgren said. Cannonball Arts will offer more to love, with a location right downtown by the new waterfront. That location, with its ability to siphon off a small percentage of the 40 million tourists who visit Seattle and King County each year, along with the center's scope, makes the idea just crazy enough to work. If kooky Meow Wolf can become a global sensation in Santa Fe, NM drawing off a small portion of Santa Fe's tourist pool and local residents, a far smaller number than Seattle has, why can't Cannonball Arts similarly excel? 'I would never have opened a 2,000 square foot art gallery in downtown Seattle because it doesn't have the critical mass and the momentum,' Lundgren said. 'You have to go in big and make a destination that will draw people out, (where) they can spend a couple hours. If we're truly successful, we've changed people's relationship to art, both from a corporate level and from a visitor level. I want people to see Cannonball as a place they can come once a week and hang out, not once a year, or every couple of years. I want it to be more like a YMCA that people have memberships to and meet their friends at and socialize in.' Cannonball Arts feels like the answer to Lundgren's question. Visit The Toxic Beauty exhibit – A rideable mechanical soft-form sculpture of a 9-foot nudibranch by Stephanie Metz. Jim Bennett Photo Bakery for Cannonball Arts Cannonball Arts operating hours will be 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Sundays, and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday. Ticket prices are as follows: Adults: $25 ($28.46 with taxes and fees) Seniors (65+): $20 ($22.94 with taxes and fees) Students w/ ID: $20 ($22.94 with taxes and fees) Children under 10: Free Cannonball event rentals are available for groups of up to 2,500 guests. For tickets and more information, visit More From Forbes Forbes Seattle Art Museum Becomes the Alexander Calder Destination with Shirley Family Collection By Chadd Scott Forbes Initial Public Art Commissions Announced For Pittsburgh's New Arts Landing By Chadd Scott
