Arts & Culture

World affairs to be conferenced includes no shortage of arts topicsAfter this many years covering it, there’s not a lot of new things BW can say about the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs in a global sense. Since it was founded in ...

For centuries, humans have been inspired by witnessing their fellow citizens attempt to fly. Despite a lack of wings, we have been awed and amazed when people propel themselves off the ground and into another dimension. A popular 19th-century folk song captures...

Everyone has that one friend who always has something really funny or amazing happen to them, and is really good at telling the story. Truth Be Told is Boulder’s bimonthly story slam where all those people can come out and speak their truth. Participants come up ...

Affordable Art Show. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Dec. 28...

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

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 ...

In an email exchange between cocurators of the art exhibit for Veterans Speak, Army veteran Adam Nilson explains his photography this way: “I have discovered that art is a therapeutic outlet and another way for me to communicate difficult situations and feelings that...

Blame it on kismet, chance or “the rain,” but something funky worked in 2013’s favor. For no discernible reason, the year offered up wildly brilliant unexpected gems (Upstream Color, Spring Breakers) and triumphant blockbusters with brains (The Hunger Games: Catching...

ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20...

Arvada Fine Guild Annual Spring Membership Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. 720-898-7200. Through June 1...

Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20...

43rd Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Art Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 11...