Arts & Culture

History lies close to the surface in Gold Hill. It’s tangible in the town’s rustic and sometimes dilapidated buildings, in the charred woods that...

When Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, was completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in the late ’60s, he spent a summer as program director for a camp of chronic schizophrenics. The camp took 25 patients from a Boston ...

Melanie Yazzie is an artist. She’s a painter, printmaker, sculptor, jewelry designer and an art teacher. As the head of printmaking at the University...

The 2017 season of the Central City Opera (CCO) is well launched, with two splendid productions in the main theater: a musically solid and...

More than once as we sit soaking up sunshine and sipping on tea in her backyard, Anne Waldman alludes to her own death—but not...

Art is often made in isolation, but the community around its maker can inspire and influence the final result. Sometimes, an art scene is more than the sum of its parts...

"I know it’s hard to believe, but these days I feel upset a lot of the time,” says artist Kathryn Jill Johnson with a...

Punketry versus Jazzetry. Either you know what it is or you don’t. If you do, you’re probably a poet — and not just any...

It was a winding road that brought Jane Burke back to Boulder as curator of the city’s flagship contemporary art institution. But during the...

Helios Lucida’s exhibition at the Firehouse Art Center proves Oscar Wilde was right: Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.  The Conifer resident’s...

Some people might call Steve Hackman a rulebreaker, a rogue in the world of classical music. But the composer known best for his “mash-up”...

R. Alan Brooks has been busy.  Over the last several years, one success has led to another for the Denver-based writer. In 2016, Brooks teamed...