Arts & Culture
Not your average stoner
Michael Grab thrives on the impossible. In fact, the professional stone balancer has made the phrase “as impossible as possible” the motto by which he creates...
Community collaboration
If anyone can appreciate an unexpected collaboration, it’s singer-songwriter Lisa Bell. Her most recent album, The Italian Project, began when the Boulder native reconnected with a high school friend she hadn’t seen in more than 25 years. The friends reunited through...
Ars ex machina
Colorado-based photographer Angela Faris Belt was uploading pictures to her computer when something dreadful occurred: it crashed. Once the shock settled, with a glass of wine in hand, she ran a recovery program to see what she could salvage. As it turned out, not ...
A logical explanation
One word resonates through my mind when movies suggest the existence of “the Other” or people exchange scary stories: fake. It’s fun to watch horror films and pretend there are witches, ghosts and monsters lurking about, but it’s just that — imaginary. While part of ...
The hakawati
Across the Potomac, Helen Zughaib could see the Pentagon burning from her home in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001. Soon enough, phone calls...
A data-driven machine
Art has an uncanny ability to cut clear through to who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. That we’ve become so mired in technology as to make the relationship between humans and their data impossible to separate is the message poignantly posted on the ...
The name on the wall
As a local artist, an alumna of the University of Colorado and a former board member in the budding days of the Dairy Arts...
Arts | Week of Sept. 11, 2014
At The Mirror — Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21...
He who looks in the crystal ball…
Large-scale crises — like a global pandemic, for instance — have a way of exposing society’s vulnerabilities; like a UV light on a crime...
Georgia O’Keeffe at the Denver Art Museum: Far from flowers
On a wintry afternoon in New York state, far from her beloved New Mexico and its ochre, umber and rust palette, the color and line that had drawn her in and kept her coming back, Georgia O’Keeffe sat painting the piece of that landscape she could bring with her when ...
The science of Signtology: Crafting pop art from the everyday
While Dan Ericson was attending Arapahoe Community College to tighten up his graphic design skills, he didn’t expect a simple homework assignment to shape his career as an artist...

















