Arts & Culture
Historical amnesia
Reiland Rabaka’s got a diagnosis for the American people: historical amnesia.
How else could so many people feel justified in taking to social media to...
Exhibit chronicles the career of Boulder artist Martha Russo
Martha Russo didn’t always dream of being an artist. As an accomplished field hockey player, Russo took a year off from Princeton University in...
In order to form a ‘More Perfect’ union…
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...
Outside the gallery walls
When you enter an art gallery, you agree to an experience. There will be some sort of exchange between art and viewer — more...
What’s in a name?
Her name is Amber Jensdotter. But her last name hasn’t always been Jensdotter. And in the next few weeks, it will be something completely...
Innisfree makes a big, if short, move
Moving can be a scary word for independent businesses and their customers. Sometimes shops close their doors and reopen miles away, out of reach...
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 ...
Making scents
In ancient Egypt, to anoint a statue of a god with perfume was to bring that statue to life, for the gods were imbued...
Snapshot of femininity
A detailed close-up reveals a freckled girl covered in blue glitter with a pimple peaking out above her left eye. Titled “Blue Poles,” this was the first painting I saw by artist Marilyn Minter...
‘We’re still here’
Melissa Fathman remembers a moment two years ago, on Indigenous Peoples Day, watching Sarah Ortegon, an enrolled Eastern Shoshone also of Northern Arapaho descent,...
30 years of community and music
As this issue was going to print, we learned that eTown’s House Manager Suzanne Fountain was among the 10 people fatally shot at the...

















