Arts & Culture
The zenith
The first sounds are reminiscent of metal on metal, steel against steel, like dragging a pipe across grating in short, regular intervals. An organ...
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Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1890-1950, a CU on the Weekend Program at CU Boulder...
An artist’s eye for a world at risk
You probably haven’t been to Antarctica to see a desert made of ice and the microbial life revealed as that ice retreats. Even if a sheep were to swallow a mountain lion whole, you couldn’t see through its skin to grasp the metaphor. You may have a few words to ...
A good dose of art
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
The Human Scale
How planning for fewer cars, more bikes and more human interaction can save the urban world...
A force of nature
This Mother’s Day weekend is all about nature for Boulder’s classical musicians.
The weekend kicks off Friday night with conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder...
Arts | Week of September 3, 2015
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865- 5000. Through Nov. 29...
No time like the present
There’s no denying the 20th century was one of radical changes. The century was ushered in on horse-drawn carriages and exited in an SUV. Humans invented plastics, factories, nuclear bombs, rock music, the Internet, spandex and iPhones. It was a hundred years ...
Rebel with a cause
In Swahili, the word ujamaa means “familyhood.” Some translate it as “extended family” or “brotherhood,” but for Tanzanian natives like Robert Oyugi, it’s a...
Snapshot of femininity
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...
