Arts & Culture

Artist Kim Jongku creates calligraphic poetry on canvas out of the same material used in military tanks and weapons. Derrick Velasquez lets gravity work on boat upholstery to create stacks of vivid, colorful patterns in his wall installations. Aníbal Catalan examines...

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...

In 1950, leaving behind conscious form, Grace Hartigan took her paints and translated her thoughts on the canvas in a burst of red, blue,...

Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...

Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30...

With a little bastardization, Einstein’s most famous equation, E=mc2, sums up the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company’s latest, Smart People, with...

In the 19th century, Paris was undergoing major change. The city was starting to blossom and open its narrow designs, shedding its medieval past....

If it doesn’t meet my standards, tear them up,” Ansel Adams tells his chief assistant Mary Alinder...

If you’ve ever heard Ira Glass talk about his relationship with the radio, you’ve heard him tell a story of being in love with it...

Over the past several years, TED talks have become a staple of everyday life. A coworker or family member emails you a bite-sized piece...

After the November presidential election, comedian Dana Gould was taken aback, not just by the results, but how sure he’d been that Trump wouldn’t...

There’s something about folk music — the twang of a banjo, the lonesome drawl of a singer’s voice — that captures a certain melodrama...