Arts & Culture
How lonely does it get?
I first met Bradley Books seven years ago through a thin piece of plexiglass. Sitting inside the staff office at the Boulder Shelter for the...
Over the hill, onto the mountain top
Dennis Glowniak, aka D Rider to KGNU listeners, has 57 seconds before he goes live when Sean Makau, the station’s promotions director, walks 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...
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...
Spring in winter
Walking into Margaretta Gilboy’s retrospective, Flying in the Hands of Time, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), it’s easy to pretend —...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
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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 ...
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...
The greatest scientists are artists
Humans like taking the scenic route when we can. It means we have a little time to appreciate the world around us, to sit...
Thrust up, twisted and frozen in time
Seeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows,...
An icy expedition
CU Boulder doctoral graduate Chris Dunn’s glacial photography reflects his way of weaving art and philosophy into a crowded climate conversation
‘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,...

















