Arts & Culture

Exposition, conflict, action, climax, denouement — the pathway by which order falls to chaos in each of Shakespeare’s plays. How that order is restored,...

Scramble Campbell 11th Annual 3-D Art Experience...

There is a difference between the Boulder County that we choose to see and the Boulder County that is. We choose to see the...

Under the dim light of the full moon, a group of poets gathers in a hollow of Pearl Street’s Morrison Alley. Most people come...

It may have been 20 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, but it was 50 years ago that the Handweavers Guild of Boulder first met up to combine their handweaving powers. And back then, it was for handweavers only, leaving Boulder’s needlepoint ...

When author Preston Lauterbach first met Ernest Withers, the famed Civil Rights-era photographer left Lauterbach in his studio alone while Withers took a meeting. “Before...

A tall, white canvas leans against the wall in Clara Nulty’s painting studio.It looks nearly blank, but there’s a pattern of dots, not unlike...

WIlliam Matthews’ watercolor paintings show a predilection for cowboy hats and men astride horses, their faces rarely in view as they head out away from the viewer and into an open range. It’s a trick. It says “get on or get left behind...

Blame it on kismet, chance or “the rain,” but something funky worked in 2013’s favor. For no discernible reason, the year offered up wildly brilliant unexpected gems (Upstream Color, Spring Breakers) and triumphant blockbusters with brains (The Hunger Games: Catching...

Michael Grab thrives on the impossible. In fact, the professional stone balancer has made the phrase “as impossible as possible” the motto by which he creates...

It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...

American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 10. Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298- 7554. Through April 13. Epic — Artist ...