Arts & Culture
Visiting a haunting history
When people find out that Ralena Gordon spends her time photographing abandoned mental institutions, often the first question they ask is about ghosts...
Recycled Reincarnation
When a mirror breaks, some worry about seven years of bad luck, but Jane Glotzer just sees an opportunity for a new art project. Glotzer is a mosaic artist, but instead of shelling out pretty pennies for pricey new materials, she visits second-hand shops, finds ...
Off Country
We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and...
Step lively for dance
Scanning the room, your eyes become locked with a potential partner in a visual embrace that seems to extinguish the outside world. Once intertwined, forceful and deliberate movements make up an exotic language that has no words...
CU plans to create new, consolidated arts department
The University of Colorado Boulder is moving to combine its three arts departments — Art and Art History; Film Studies; and Theatre and Dance — into a single entity, tentatively known as the Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts (IPFA...
The art in everyday
At first, you might not notice Jorge Pardo’s artwork in the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s latest exhibit Saber Acomodar: Art and Workshops of...
For the sake of the endeavor
Under the dim light of the full moon, a group of poets gathers in a hollow of Pearl Street’s Morrison Alley. Most people come...
The intimate is political
In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Boulder-based artists Julie Maren and Joy Alice Eisenhauer were excited. The two had partnered...
Not so endless love
When the Museum of Broken Relationships put out a press release in November announcing an upcoming exhibition in Boulder, it began with a question: Do happy people break up too...
A logical explanation
One word resonates through my mind when movies suggest the existence of “the Other” or people exchange scary stories: fake. It’s fun to watch horror films and pretend there are witches, ghosts and monsters lurking about, but it’s just that — imaginary. While part of ...
CMF ends on a high note
When you plan a summer festival, you want to end on a high note. And this year, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Colorado Music Festival...
