Arts & Culture

Arts | Week of Dec. 17, 2015

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A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24...

An icy expedition

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CU Boulder doctoral graduate Chris Dunn’s glacial photography reflects his way of weaving art and philosophy into a crowded climate conversation

A million pictures worth countless words

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As of Dec. 24, Boulder photographer Peggy Dyer had captured the images of 4,340 people, leaving 995,660 to go in her mission to photograph a million faces. For the last two years, Dyer has been steadily amassing what she hopes will be the “single most extensive ...

Dia de los Muertos: A celebration of life, death and culture

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Right now in Mexico, thousands of people are preparing for Día de los Muertos and the great celebration to honor their loved ones who have passed on. Altars are being created, filled with photos, candles and items that held significance for deceased friends and ...

Rapping it up

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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...

‘A resting place for worried minds’

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"I know it’s hard to believe, but these days I feel upset a lot of the time,” says artist Kathryn Jill Johnson with a...

Arts | Week of Jan. 15, 2015

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Art Therapy: Portal to Another World. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Jan. 18...

Off Country

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We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and...

A glitch is the system

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In the business world, a computer glitch typically is the first step in a cascading series of problems better avoided. But in the art world, the dreaded glitch is being harnessed as its own medium, with the flaws, hiccups and imperfections layered atop digital pop ...

What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…

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VIRTUAL EVENTS The Good Place and Philosophy — an Online Discussion. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28, greyhavensgroup.org/events. The Good Place is a rare breed of television...

Anniversary

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Rocky Mountain National Park 100th Anniversary...

Drawing the line

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Drawings are generally seen as the preliminary sketches for later, more polished works, but two exhibitions in Denver, at the Denver Art Museum and the Clyfford Still Museum, are making the case for viewing drawings as artworks in and of themselves. Each exhibition ...