Arts & Culture
Mark Rothko: The vanishing figure
If it is true, as Mark Rothko has said, that art lives in the eye of its viewers, then what comes to life in the Denver Art Museum exhibition of his work is the most formative decade of his life. A decade in which the nearly mature artist uses the anguish and angst ...
Tapping into history
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...
A campus for the arts
Seeking refuge from the June heat, student artists flocked to the air-conditioned Boulder Pottery Lab for its Saturday open hours. Inside the old Boulder...
Arts | Week of November 6, 2014
ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303- 492-8300. Through Dec. 20...
Making sense of Boulder fashion
Boulder tends to attract superlatives. It’s been named the foodiest town in America by Bon Appetit. It’s routinely among the fittest, the smartest, most likely to succeed, best smile, greatest ever. But nobody’s ever complimented the City of Brown Woolen Sweaters on ...
How to start
"Good morning, friends,” artist Kimmerjae Macarus says into her iPhone camera. “I’ve been feeling like my sculpture needs to move into something different, so...
From an immigrant´s perspective
In Boulder, talk of changing seasons can lead to anxiety, happiness, or resolution. But what if we had to experience serious change, such as moving into a new environment or changing from a democracy to a dictatorship? Chances are, our interpretation of things wouldn...
Becoming American
What does “becoming American” mean to you? Is it a process? A state of mind? An act of participation? When one becomes American, what’s...
Enhancing the excitability of the whole machine
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,...
BMOCA explores the art of city chicken coops
When was the last time you saw livestock frequenting a fine arts museum? I'm going to say never. Live farm animals might seem like an anomaly at an art exhibit, but as Boulderites swarmed the farmers' market on Sept. 26, their sacks filled with organic produce, live ...
Giving voice
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...
