Arts & Culture
Speaking for America
"Like campers around a campfire sharing ghost stories, except all the stories are supposedly true, and the thing we’re gathered around is not a...
Hanging with Hannibal
Everybody kind of stinks, in my opinion. I don’t really like anyone,” says comedian Hannibal Buress.
As most comedians do, Buress draws from his daily...
Drawing the line
Drawings are generally seen as the preliminary sketches for later, more polished works, but two exhibitions in Denver, at the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum, are making the case for viewing drawings as artworks in and of themselves. Each exhibition ...
Too good to be true
Suzanne Heintz is notorious for her family photos. She captures the everyday household chores, the family vacations and the holiday festivities. In the photos, Heintz is vibrant and lively, usually with a big smile. In contrast, her husband, Chauncey, seems a bit ...
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...
Outside the frame
Growing up in the ’60s, when Melanie Walker and her sister would come home complaining about a problem at school, their father would joke,...
Arts | Week of August 21, 2013
Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443- 2122. Through Sept. 14...
Thrust up, twisted and frozen in time
Seeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows,...
Big shoes to fill
Theater lovers anywhere outside of New York City must cultivate one similar trait: patience. When a new show opens on Broadway, unless you buy...
Dioramas: the theater of science and discovery
It’s a busy Saturday afternoon at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science but there are no lines for any of the exhibits. Free...
Martina Hoffmann’s world as art
%uFFFDBoulder-based artist Martina Hoffmann says growing up in equatorial Africa as a blond-haired, blue-eyed child was “a beautiful experience.” The German-born painter remembers how indigenous children would surround her, touching her skin and hair with curiosity ...
Arts | Week of Dec. 10, 2015
A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24...
