Arts & Culture

Born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Boulder artist Jason García’s paintings still carry with them the edge and ferocity of the city. An accomplished artist on various fronts, García’s art has manifested everywhere from murals on city streets to fine art ...

Saturday, July 19-Sunday, July 20: Open Arts Fest, Pearl Street Mall, Boulder...

Artist Jenny Morgan has always had a talent for painting the human figure. In the early days of her career, Morgan painted hyper-realistic canvases...

The first sounds are reminiscent of metal on metal, steel against steel, like dragging a pipe across grating in short, regular intervals. An organ...

We’re suckers for a good year-end list here at Boulder Weekly. And as enthusiastic (some might say obsessive) consumers of culture, there’s no shortage...

Central City Opera (CCO) is offering two operatic mainstays in their historic 1878 opera house this summer, Bizet’s Carmen (July 8–Aug. 6) and Mozart’s...

A massive painting on melted bubble wrap depicts American rock legend, Gene Simmons of Kiss, complete with proverbial white and black face paint and his signature facial expression. The painting hangs to the right of another painting on bubble wrap, this one ...

Reiland Rabaka’s got a diagnosis for the American people: historical amnesia.  How else could so many people feel justified in taking to social media to...

Len Barron, a retired 80-year-old educator, has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with one Albert Einstein. He says he has gone into more than 200 schools since 1989 doing talks on the physicist and education, and for years that included a one-man show he’d perform, ...

As Kerry Larkin has traveled the country with her handmade quilts, she’s discovered that people in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. — just like people in rural Pennsylvania where she grew up and her current home in Colorado — have stories about quilts...

Michael Grab thrives on the impossible. In fact, the professional stone balancer has made the phrase “as impossible as possible” the motto by which he creates...

After hauling backpacks weighing almost 100 pounds to 13,300 feet above sea level, waiting out a snowstorm and finally reaching the perfect spot on...