Arts & Culture

‘Local Folk’ exhibits diversity in Boulder County

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Executive director of the Firehouse, Beryl Durazo has inclusivity on the brain. “Especially in Boulder County, diversity is an important role to play in anything,...

Fresh perspectives

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Peer through A Window Into Your Imagination, the new exhibition of two Colorado artists at SmithKlein Gallery, and you’ll glimpse a vibrant world rife with beauty. The surreal dreamscapes of Tammi Otis hang across from Bryce Widom’s impressionistic meadows and open...

More than just pretty still lifes

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In the 19th century, Paris was undergoing major change. The city was starting to blossom and open its narrow designs, shedding its medieval past....

Politics aren’t a team sport

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W. Kamau Bell has been busy these last few years. As a socio-political comedian who hosts three podcasts and a CNN documentary series, there’s...

Women are beautiful, naturally

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Through the decades in which women marched for liberation from secretarial jobs, sexual monogamy and bras, Garry Winogrand walked the streets, his palm-sized camera in hand, photographing women. He caught them with their guard down, their knees too high for their ...

BMOCA explores the art of city chicken coops

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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 ...

Dia de los Muertos: A celebration of life, death and culture

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Right now in Mexico, thousands of people are preparing for Día de los Muertos and the great celebration to honor their loved ones who have passed on. Altars are being created, filled with photos, candles and items that held significance for deceased friends and ...

CMF’s mid-summer mini-fest puts the focus on French music

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The mid-summer mini-festival, happily restored to the Colorado Music Festival season, this year will fill Chautauqua Auditorium with the sounds of French music —...

Through the lens

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In the summer of 1871, America was celebrating its 95th birthday and the recent acquisition of more territories due to the Mexican-American War. Manifest...

The family in the house

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For writer/director/editor Trey Edward Shults, making movies is a family affair. It doesn’t matter if he’s shooting in his parent’s home in Spring, Texas, for 2015’s Krisha,...

Finding beauty in everything

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Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the third child of immigrant parents, Andy Warhol suffered through his childhood as an outcast and a hypochondriac. It seemed unlikely then that this often bed-ridden child would one day rise to fame as one of the leading figures of the ...

Broadening our vocabulary

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Each person in Fazal Sheikh’s photography has a story of survival. The men, women and children have persevered through wars, refugee camps, abuse, social...