Arts & Culture

A glitch is the system

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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 ...

Two ways of looking back

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So much of art is a reflection of the time period in which it was created, and two new, very different exhibitions at the University of Colorado Art Museum, American West and Interlaced, demonstrate that point very clearly...

In 10th year of Studio Tour, 66 artists open studios to...

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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...

Making space for art

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In the past few years, a group of North Boulder artists, coalescing as the NoBo Art District, has been diligently showing its work, holding monthly First Friday exhibitions at various locations north of Pearl Street...

Rock Band 3 continues to rock on

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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 ...

KGNU turns 32

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

CU plans to create new, consolidated arts department

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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...

Drawing the line

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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 ...

A logical explanation

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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 ...

Visiting a haunting history

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

Same language, new story

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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 ...

Holy sheet

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After having visited Bloodshed / The 13th Floor, and Zombieland / Asylum, my Halloween Haunted House Tour had immediately gone from happy-go-lucky, and "phew, my pants are still on," to "I will never be able to sleep with the lights off again, and my goodness how is ...