Arts & Culture

Historical amnesia

0
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

0
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…

0
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

0
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?

0
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

0
Moving can be a scary word for independent businesses and their customers. Sometimes shops close their doors and reopen miles away, out of reach...

Chief Niwot’s spirit lives on

0
The story of the city of Boulder has a sordid side...

Clyfford Still and the natives

0
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

0
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

0
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’

0
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

0
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...