Arts & Culture
Cultural tensions on display
A massive painting on melted bubble wrap depicts American rock legend, Gene Simmons of Kiss, complete with proverbial white and black face paint and his signature facial expression. The painting hangs to the right of another painting on bubble wrap, this one ...
Welcome the stranger
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed...
Arts | Week of May 7, 2015
Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30...
Too good to be true
Suzanne Heintz is notorious for her family photos. She captures the everyday household chores, the family vacations and the holiday festivities. In the photos, Heintz is vibrant and lively, usually with a big smile. In contrast, her husband, Chauncey, seems a bit ...
Collections of Navajo rugs tell stories of life, myth
Whimsical animals, zigags, birds and plants woven into Navajo rugs tell stories through silence. Created by Navajo weavers in the late 1800s, these pictorial rugs reflect the cultural impacts propelled by trading posts and the building of railroads in the Southwest...
Boulder resident Robert Venosa, foremost master of visionary art, dies
Robert Venosa, one of...
Georgia O’Keeffe at the Denver Art Museum: Far from flowers
On a wintry afternoon in New York state, far from her beloved New Mexico and its ochre, umber and rust palette, the color and line that had drawn her in and kept her coming back, Georgia O’Keeffe sat painting the piece of that landscape she could bring with her when ...
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 ...
Love and Haiti
If mass media is your only window into the Republic of Haiti, mention of the island nation likely conjures a small constellation of sufferings....
Dear Whole Foods Daddy: Sept. 7, 2023
We all have questions and need advice, but sometimes the pseudo therapy in the Instagram stories of astrology girls doesn’t cut it. Or maybe...
Arts | Week of Dec. 17, 2015
A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24...
