Arts & Culture
A recognizable, impossible world
There was an explosion, an accident of some sort, and chaos abounded; people were screaming, running from the smoke — but not Janelle Anderson.Anderson...
My fellow Americans . . .
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...
Ally is a verb
Rendered in prismatic colors, their skin defies race.
More than a dozen visages stare back at patrons of The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse at Norlin Commons...
The sounds of science
On a golden summer evening, the harmonized voices of children fill the Chautauqua meadows with a song about a flesh-eating bacterium: “Oh Giardia, I...
Mark Rothko: The vanishing figure
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 ...
Faces of nature
During a snowy day, if you look outside the window, all you may see is a smattering of white flakes coating the landscape. But...
Keeping it weird and accessible with Left Hand Artist Group
A break in Colorado’s early spring snows brought a warm, sunny day to Longmont last April. Outside the Senior Center in Roosevelt Park, locals...
Romanticizing the glitch
The Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for...
Just give a damn
In 2012, the world shook with the news that Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed African American boy, was shot and killed. He wasn’t the...
The steep walls of the pyramid
Success, acclaim and wealth can be a dream come true for many artists. But when Jonathan Saiz’s artistic career began to take off, he...
Pussy Grabs Back
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...
Layers of injustice
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,...