Arts & Culture
Fresh perspectives
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...
Revolving time
It’s hard to timestamp one of Stephen Batura’s paintings. While the scenes feel familiar — a river, a field or a construction site — ...
Oneness through chaos
At first glance, the three exhibitions of Colorado artists at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art appear to share little in common. Yet as the viewer ascends from the first to third floor of the museum, encountering the succinctly divergent worlds of each ...
Through the lens
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...
CU Eklund Opera melds Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ with ‘Game of Thrones’
Handel’s opera Ariodante is as old as 1516, when its story was first recorded, and as new as today.
Its theme, the linchpin of many...
‘Local Folk’ exhibits diversity in Boulder County
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,...
Dairy exhibit ‘Tethered’ explores the moments of modern life
When H. Jennings Sheffield was starting out as a photographer, she noticed her colleagues were mostly single and mostly without kids. As an artist,...
The family in the house
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,...
Music on canvas
Born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Boulder artist Jason García’s paintings still carry with them the edge and ferocity of the city. An accomplished artist on various fronts, García’s art has manifested everywhere from murals on city streets to fine art ...
A litte crazypants
Walking down the steps to the basement of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) there’s a graffiti sign that reads: The Dramastics are Loud....
Politics aren’t a team sport
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...
Broadening our vocabulary
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...

















