Arts & Culture
CMF ends on a high note
When you plan a summer festival, you want to end on a high note. And this year, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Colorado Music Festival...
Is the Internet making us dumber?
A favorite folk tale that captivates children around the country is the legend of John Henry, the tale of the man who bests a steam-powered hammer in a drilling race, only to die with hammer in hand after victory. It’s a tale of Olympian strength and determination, ...
A guarantee of sanity
During the early years of the AIDS epidemic in America, with Ronald Reagan conspicuously devoid of public thoughts on the matter, art began to...
Is this working for everybody?
On May 13, the Actors Theater of Louisville in Kentucky held a virtual round table discussion called “Non-Binary Actors in a Binary World.”
K. Woodzick,...
The familiar frontier
Post-Civil War America was a country in pieces. After years of fighting, the North and the South had to come together as one again....
The forgotten ones
Don Coen’s family had a farm just outside of Lamar, Colorado, southeast of Colorado Springs, about half an hour’s drive from the border of...
Everybody’s talking
How do you measure happiness? That’s the question Cara Cruickshank wants to explore with the latest installment of her long-running immersive art project dubbed...
Voices of dissent
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” —Edward R. Murrow
For...
Fresh perspectives
Peer through A Window Into Your Imagination, the new exhibition of two Colorado artists at SmithKlein Gallery, and you’ll glimpse a vibrant world rife with beauty. The surreal dreamscapes of Tammi Otis hang across from Bryce Widom’s impressionistic meadows and open...
Arts | Week of Sept. 18, 2014
At The Mirror — Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865- 5000. Through Sept. 21...
Esse quam videri
I’m from Western North Carolina, from a town in the foothills nestled up against the Appalachian (Appa-LATCH-un, the way I say it, but more...
Caution: High Voltage
Mitch Levin’s studio is an electric, eclectic creative space, filled with sparks, artists and vibrant ideas. What else would you expect from a place...