Arts & Culture

What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…

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If your organization is planning an event of any kind, please email Caitlin at crockett @ boulderweekly.com.  EVENTS Fifth Annual Virtual Colorado Pollinator Summit. 8 a.m.-4...

‘Art of the State’ showcases Colorado art

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Walk into the Art of the State exhibit and you will immediately step into the diverse Colorado art scene. Far from the galleries of...

Faces of nature

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During a snowy day, if you look outside the window, all you may see is a smattering of white flakes coating the landscape. But...

Lost and found

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For the past several years, Loren Eiseley’s story “The Star Thrower,” aka “the starfish story,” has made its rounds across the internet. Published in...

Not entirely politically correct

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The art Todd Herman curates at east window is his way of addressing the injustices of the world.  “There's still racism, sexism—there’s a lot we've...

The conservator’s dilemma at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum

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In the back corner of the Clyfford Still Museum, a glass door allows partial views of the interior of the conservation studio, where every few days, a new painting is unrolled and the work of preparing it to be exhibited — often, for the very first time — begins. ...

Mark Rothko: The vanishing figure

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If it is true, as Mark Rothko has said, that art lives in the eye of its viewers, then what comes to life in the Denver Art Museum exhibition of his work is the most formative decade of his life. A decade in which the nearly mature artist uses the anguish and angst ...

Off Country

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We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and...

The gray area

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For thousands of years, humans have passed stories down to younger generations with the hope they’ll continue the practice. As a member of the...

The show must go on—Dispatches from the 48th Telluride Film Festival

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There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped a burnt...

My fellow Americans . . .

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By the spring of 2020, André Ramos-Woodard (they/them) was mad as hell. It started with Ahmaud Arbery, chased and gunned down by white men while...

Only time to be yourself

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Shantell Martin works fast. With a marker in hand, she stays in constant motion — drawing lines, faces, words, squiggles, stick figures and various...