Arts & Culture

Among the anachronisms likely to linger in former Communist-bloc countries, where borders were closed and travel limited for half a century, one might not expect to find figurative painting. But for a handful of rising artists from a generation who have forgotten ...

On a wintry afternoon in New York state, far from her beloved New Mexico and its ochre, umber and rust palette, the color and line that had drawn her in and kept her coming back, Georgia O’Keeffe sat painting the piece of that landscape she could bring with her when ...

There’s something about folk music — the twang of a banjo, the lonesome drawl of a singer’s voice — that captures a certain melodrama...

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...

A detailed close-up reveals a freckled girl covered in blue glitter with a pimple peaking out above her left eye. Titled “Blue Poles,” this was the first painting I saw by artist Marilyn Minter...

Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865- 5000. Through Nov. 29...

We love our local arts scene here in Boulder County — but with so much going on, it can be hard to keep up....

Friedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will,...

The Boulder Bach Festival opens its 2018–19 season at the Stewart Auditorium in Longmont, Thursday, Sept. 13, with a concert, and something more. The 7:30...

Peer through A Window Into Your Imagination, the new exhibition of two Colorado artists at SmithKlein Gallery, and you’ll glimpse a vibrant world rife with beauty. The surreal dreamscapes of Tammi Otis hang across from Bryce Widom’s impressionistic meadows and open...

Maria Montessori believed in the innate intelligence of children.  “The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have...

When Lisa Siciliano bought her neighbor’s camera on a whim in 2002, she had no idea that such a small decision would alter the course of her life...