Arts & Culture

Nick Cave can take a garish ceramic bird, and a kitschy ceramic fruit bowl, and a few strings of plastic beads, and put it all together in a way that makes a stunning, and beautiful, sculpture. There’s no breaking that equation down to make the math work on how ugly ...

The name Frida Kahlo conjures different meanings for different people. For some she was an underappreciated artist, who lacked technical skill but had a strong vision. For others she was a feminist who broke gender roles and challenged traditional beauty. Moreover ...

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

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...

The folks in Nederland, Colorado celebrated their 10th Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival from March 4-6. Check out some images from the events: 

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Denver-born T.J. Miller got his break in 2007 when he was cast in Cloverfield as Hud, the goofy camera-holding friend who catalogs New York City’s monster-fueled destruction. Since then, he’s done pretty well for himself. He has 49 television and film acting ...

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 ...

You probably haven’t been to Antarctica to see a desert made of ice and the microbial life revealed as that ice retreats. Even if a sheep were to swallow a mountain lion whole, you couldn’t see through its skin to grasp the metaphor. You may have a few words to ...