Arts & Culture
Classic Caesar
Man landing on the moon. The Vietnam War. Two gulf wars. VCRs. Video games. Cell phones. The Internet. Cassette tapes. Compact discs. DVDs. AIDS....
Chief Niwot’s Curse
On the longest night of the year, we sit cross-legged in a circle and watch unfamiliar faces across from us flicker in candlelight. We...
Arts | Week of July 31, 2014
Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 14...
Exhibit chronicles the career of Boulder artist Martha Russo
Martha Russo didn’t always dream of being an artist. As an accomplished field hockey player, Russo took a year off from Princeton University in...
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Friday, April 4 Opening Night of the MFA 2014 Spring Thesis Exhibition. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492- 8300. High-caliber fine art will be displayed at the Spring 2014 exhibition of work by the University of Colorado master’s students at the CU Art...
What can’t be spoken
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...
Conversing with Georgia
At first glance, the common thread between the artworks in Aftereffect is less than obvious. There are different mediums, subject matter and styles, from...
The unexplainable phenomenon
Moving from behind his computer, Goodgold starts to dance to synthesized music. There’s a pause — and he waits for a live keyboard cue...
Rapping it up
Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...
Not going quietly
They are each unique, with nuanced journeys of hardship, trauma and, ultimately, resolve. They are also bound together by their similarities: Latinas, facing impossible...
Only time to be yourself
Shantell Martin works fast. With a marker in hand, she stays in constant motion — drawing lines, faces, words, squiggles, stick figures and various...