Arts & Culture
Jenn Zuko on the art of violence and sex, on stage
You’re at the theater, watching a lovely scene succumb to violence. You’ve just seen the marriage of a young couple but now, moments later,...
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...
Exhibit at Firehouse questions technology
The violin is iconic. Whether because of its lovely sound or its elegant design, the violin conjures of feelings of tradition and beauty. Which...
Scents for a woman
Artwork in museums is usually meant to be seen and not touched, not tasted and not smelled. But the Denver Art Museum is partnering with local perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz to organize an event that turns that notion on its head. On May 1, Hurwitz will lead a tour ...
CMF’s mid-summer mini-fest puts the focus on French music
The mid-summer mini-festival, happily restored to the Colorado Music Festival season, this year will fill Chautauqua Auditorium with the sounds of French music —...
Weaving stories
Not many textile artists have to go through security checkpoints every morning.
Anna Olsson did. For five years, the psychologist-by-day and artist-by-night worked in...
Arts | Week of Jan. 15, 2015
Art Therapy: Portal to Another World. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Jan. 18...
Building power
If you live in Boulder County, you’ve probably heard the story of Zayd Atkinson and John Smyly. On March 1, 2019, Atkinson, a Naropa...
Clyfford Still and the natives
Before he became the creator of explosive and epic-scale abstract expressionist paintings and then an artist so reclusive and elusive that he nearly wrote himself out of the art history books, Clyfford Still was a graduate student and instructor at a college in ...
High aspirations
If it doesn’t meet my standards, tear them up,” Ansel Adams tells his chief assistant Mary Alinder...
To have and to hoard
Last week’s snow is stubbornly hanging around in patches along the gravel road leading to Joel Haertling’s five storage units off a major thoroughfare...
