Arts & Culture

Artist Jenny Morgan has always had a talent for painting the human figure. In the early days of her career, Morgan painted hyper-realistic canvases...

Here’s how it was supposed to go: In one of the tall, street-facing windows of the David B. Smith Gallery, a 6-foot-tall neon sign...

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

Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...

Over the past several years, TED talks have become a staple of everyday life. A coworker or family member emails you a bite-sized piece...

When Susanne Mitchell first traveled to Malawi in 1995, she found people very eager to share their thoughts. “People were yelling out their opinions because...

Eighty-eight-year-old Harriet Butcher vividly recalls Sammy Davis Jr. tap dancing on the stage of the Roxy Theater in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Butcher takes a deep breath and closes her eyes as she recalls swooning over the legendary performer...

You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.  Don’t scoff,...

There’s an earthiness in the air as several young people work on potting some 300 flowers in the lobby of the Boulder Museum of...

Ann Cunningham was born in the gravel capital of the world, Oxford, Michigan. Surrounded by a variety of rocks, she’d spend hours sorting through stones...

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”...

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...