Arts & Culture

Collage as an art technique and craft might be ubiquitous today, but when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first began experimenting with incorporating found materials into their paintings in the early 1900s, it was a radical innovation. Art has never been the same ...

It’s tough for any new game franchise to get the attention it needs during the crowded fall/holiday season. Among games like Halo, Call of Duty, Rock Band and other top-tier video game franchises, it’s easy for a game like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West to be ignored...

In the business world, a computer glitch typically is the first step in a cascading series of problems better avoided. But in the art world, the dreaded glitch is being harnessed as its own medium, with the flaws, hiccups and imperfections layered atop digital pop ...

A perfect example of the invaluable contributions community radio stations make came on the radio as I drove to work last week...

Art lovers frequent museums or galleries or art shows in order to view the works of the artists they love. Rarely do they get to meet the creator of a certain piece, let alone see them work...

Drawings are generally seen as the preliminary sketches for later, more polished works, but two exhibitions in Denver, at the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum, are making the case for viewing drawings as artworks in and of themselves. Each exhibition ...

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 ...

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...

Among the anachronisms likely to linger in former Communist-bloc countries, where borders were closed and travel limited for half a century, one might not expect to find figurative painting. But for a handful of rising artists from a generation who have forgotten ...

Artwork in museums is usually meant to be seen and not touched, not tasted and not smelled. But the Denver Art Museum is partnering with local perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz to organize an event that turns that notion on its head. On May 1, Hurwitz will lead a tour ...

Rock Band 2 came out way back in 2008, and we’ve had Rock Band Beatles and Rock Band Green Day to hold us over until Rock Band 3. While the band-specific music games are great if you’re a fan of the band (and who isn’t a fan of The Beatles?), most players want a ...

When people find out that Ralena Gordon spends her time photographing abandoned mental institutions, often the first question they ask is about ghosts...