Arts & Culture
Home is where the art is
Selling art out of your house has certain virtues. Art in a gallery can look distant and cool, far too impressive for living room walls. But bring paintings home and they seem to change shape, take on greater intimacy, join the family and get comfortable on the ...
Rapping it up
Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West could be the sleeper hit of...
It’s tough for any new game franchise to get the attention it needs during the crowded fall/holiday season. Among games like Halo, Call of Duty, Rock Band and other top-tier video game franchises, it’s easy for a game like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West to be ignored...
Following the strands
Boulder artist Pattie Lee Becker sees beauty in ropes. Using pen and colored pencils, the artist turns twisted fiber visions into enchanting entanglements of colors and patterns on paper. Becker expands 2-D drawings into 3-D sculptures by combining woodblock ...
Bomba bridging cultures
When she was a kid growing up on the east coast, Maria Sepulveda had an intimate connection with her Puerto Rican roots. The Latino community surrounding her was a diverse collection of families from across the Latino world, and she used Spanish with them daily...
2,600-year-old Buddhist relics make a stop in Boulder
Some of the foundational beliefs of Buddhism are peace and lovingkindness among all living things. For the past 30 years or so the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso has been spreading this message in the Western world with hopes of inspiring and making changes worldwide. But ...
The STEAM of dreams
“We believe art is a powerful gateway drug into science,” George Sparks,
CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), says of its...
Runner’s toes
Wednesday, July 9: Pearl Street Mile in Downtown Boulder. 6:30 p.m. 1942 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774...
Change at the ends of the world
If a photograph is a mere snapshot in time, the caption becomes the clock face of history. Being able to read both can illustrate our understanding of the world...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
Finding beauty in everything
Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the third child of immigrant parents, Andy Warhol suffered through his childhood as an outcast and a hypochondriac. It seemed unlikely then that this often bed-ridden child would one day rise to fame as one of the leading figures of the ...