Arts & Culture

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 ...

Building power

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If you live in Boulder County, you’ve probably heard the story of Zayd Atkinson and John Smyly. On March 1, 2019, Atkinson, a Naropa...

Writer’s Block has ‘IT’

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It’s a Tuesday night at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café’s weekly open poetry reading. “Writer’s Block,” a poet at the mic says. “Outside the box,” a...

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...

An ordered universe

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In David Foster Wallace’s book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, he attempts to explain the possibility of constructing proof of a...

Reality denied

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"Do you mind if I have a cigarette?” Bradley Books asks as we sit soaking in late spring sunshine on the patio of Luna...

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...

A recognizable, impossible world

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There was an explosion, an accident of some sort, and chaos abounded; people were screaming, running from the smoke — but not Janelle Anderson.Anderson...

Pussy Grabs Back

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This is not a typical burlesque show,” says Jenna Noah, aka Madame Merci, co-founder of Conscious Burlesque and creator of Pussy Grabs Back. “This...

Flamenco gaining ground in Boulder

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The Spanish art form flamenco, known for its percussive footwork, sharp clapping, earthy dance movements and the rasgueos strumming technique, is taking root here in Boulder. There are a variety of classes that teach flamenco technique, the aesthetics of flamenco and...

Layers of injustice

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By now you’ve likely heard that J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, is a TERF.  It’s a term Rowling considers a slur,...

Romanticizing the glitch

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The Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for...