Arts & Culture

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 ...

After 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 1948, it’s kept on keeping on with its half-spontaneous intellectual...

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...

Friedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will,...

Gene Sherwood. Gwen Meux. Eve Drewlowe. Muriel Sibell Wolle. Virginia True. Anne Jones. These are just some of the names of the artists who...

Growing up in the ’60s, when Melanie Walker and her sister would come home complaining about a problem at school, their father would joke,...

Born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Boulder artist Jason García’s paintings still carry with them the edge and ferocity of the city. An accomplished artist on various fronts, García’s art has manifested everywhere from murals on city streets to fine art ...

Rendered in prismatic colors, their skin defies race.  More than a dozen visages stare back at patrons of The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse at Norlin Commons...

Sunday, April 6 Arvada Kite Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Stenger Soccer Complex, 11200 W. 58th Ave., Arvadaa, 720-898-7000. What better way to celebrate the beginning of spring than to hang out outside and enjoy a nice breeze? The Arvada Kite Festival is celebrating ...

It was a winding road that brought Jane Burke back to Boulder as curator of the city’s flagship contemporary art institution. But during the...

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 ...

Colorado-based photographer Angela Faris Belt was uploading pictures to her computer when something dreadful occurred: it crashed. Once the shock settled, with a glass of wine in hand, she ran a recovery program to see what she could salvage. As it turned out, not ...