Arts & Culture
John Waters brings bag of Christmas smut to Boulder
Christmas typically implies a lot of wholesomeness like steaming beverages, wrapped packages and a general influx in morality. But this Christmas, there’s another man...
Hanuman Festival tries to heal the world through yoga
Right: Mia and Joe from Cat’s Gymnasium in Boulder, who did not want their last names used, demonstrate the shoulder-to-shoulder pose during the Hanuman Festival on June 18...
Bolder Boulder and beer bongs
Around 9:05 a.m. on Memorial Day, I stood with my feet a few inches behind the Bolder Boulder starting line, ready for my wave to begin its 10K quest on a sunny, clear morning. Ron Bostwick, director of course entertainment, pumped up the excited throngs ready to run...
Inspiration and location
The fascinating acrylic-onwood paintings of Caitlin Buck, a Boulder native who graduated from Naropa University in 2012, will see their three-month appearance on the walls of the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse end this month. Buck, 28, lately focuses on realistically ...
A brilliant history
The story of Cartier jewelry is one that’s less about objects and opulence than it is one about wearers and workers — the jewelry makers, that is, and the people who went on to adorn themselves with the pieces made. As much as the Denver Art Museum’s Brilliant: ...
Revisiting Modernism
Landscapes of shapes. Aspen groves minus trees. Angled bedrooms. In Modernism Revisited, Denver artists Tracy Felix, Sushe Felix and Susan Cooper fracture the familiar for a fresh view of the Colorado mountains, nature and life...
‘Encounters 2016’ spotlights printmakers
After meticulously carving out the perfect design, it is time to put the first round of ink onto the stamp and press it onto...
‘Dead Space 2’ is one of the scariest games ever made
Back in 2008, EA Games dropped one of the scariest games in this generation of gaming, Dead Space. A horror game set in the emptiness of outer space, Dead Space brought back that fear factor gamers had when space horror debuted in the mid-’90s with the classic video ...
Naropa’s matchbox art fundraiser: Sparked to make a difference
The drawing shows a purple bird’s nest holding five eggs, each a different color, balanced on the limb of a tree. Filling the sky around the tree branches is a crowd of birds, open V shapes drawn in orange pastel. It’s a simple drawing, but a big story...
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...
The virtue of cool
The art in PUSH.POP.KICK. isn’t what you normally find on the walls of Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center. Loaded with themes of violence, racism, drugs and sex, the skateboard-themed show hangs counterculture on white walls more familiar with the politically correct. ...
Venturing off the pavement
WIlliam Matthews’ watercolor paintings show a predilection for cowboy hats and men astride horses, their faces rarely in view as they head out away from the viewer and into an open range. It’s a trick. It says “get on or get left behind...
