Arts & Culture
Tips for thrifty living
Sparrow is a self-taught visual artist, pianist and chef — and has a master’s degree in creative writing. He lives in a doublewide trailer...
#InstaNovels
You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.
Don’t scoff,...
Arts | Week of Dec. 2014
Affordable Art Show. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651- 2787. Through Dec. 28...
Martina Hoffmann’s world as art
%uFFFDBoulder-based artist Martina Hoffmann says growing up in equatorial Africa as a blond-haired, blue-eyed child was “a beautiful experience.” The German-born painter remembers how indigenous children would surround her, touching her skin and hair with curiosity ...
Arts | Week of November 6, 2014
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...
Making people uncomfortable
There’s a saying in sales: Show up and throw up.
It means knowing your product inside and out, and being ready to offer that knowledge...
Better than diamonds
Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...
An ordered universe
In David Foster Wallace’s book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, he attempts to explain the possibility of constructing proof of a...
Outside the frame
Growing up in the ’60s, when Melanie Walker and her sister would come home complaining about a problem at school, their father would joke,...
Thrust up, twisted and frozen in time
Seeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows,...
Between past and present
History lies close to the surface in Gold Hill. It’s tangible in the town’s rustic and sometimes dilapidated buildings, in the charred woods that...
Lost and found
For the past several years, Loren Eiseley’s story “The Star Thrower,” aka “the starfish story,” has made its rounds across the internet. Published in...