Arts & Culture

Collections of Navajo rugs tell stories of life, myth

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Whimsical animals, zigags, birds and plants woven into Navajo rugs tell stories through silence. Created by Navajo weavers in the late 1800s, these pictorial rugs reflect the cultural impacts propelled by trading posts and the building of railroads in the Southwest...

Everybody’s talking

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How do you measure happiness? That’s the question Cara Cruickshank wants to explore with the latest installment of her long-running immersive art project dubbed...

Creative evolution

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Anyone who has driven down 30th Street has probably seen it out their window. But in case you’ve never stopped for a closer look, the brightly colored slab of concrete next to the skatepark in Scott Carpenter Park is a penalty-free place for graffiti: the Boulder ...

Arts | Week of July 31, 2014

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Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 14...

CU Eklund Opera melds Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ with ‘Game of Thrones’

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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...

poetry

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After reading the Boulder Weekly’s story on Scholastic National Student Poets Program and the subsequent essay issue of the paper, local poet Troy Suben approached the editorial staff with an idea: What about running poetry in the paper on a weekly basis? We’ve ...

Arts | Week of Dec. 3, 2015

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Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 20...

Arts | Week of April 30, 2015

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Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303- 497-1174. Through May 30...

Inappropriate laughter

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The pilot of Tig Notaro’s semi-autobiographical Amazon Prime series One Mississippi wastes no time setting up the darkness that is — in all its...

No spectators

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Strolling across the property where artist Android Jones lives, it seems fitting that a man whose art is often experienced projected against domes would...

Shades of white

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What does diversity mean? There are the obvious diversities — cultural, racial, economic — and the not-so-obvious — intellectual, political, spiritual...

Takin’ it to the streets

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Street Wise Boulder is back, Sept. 7-13, for its second year, bringing muralists (and 3D artists) from around Colorado and as far away as...