Arts
Rauschenberg show at Museum of Outdoor Arts invites viewers to reflect, literally
“Reflections and Ruminations,” the first solo exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s work in Colorado since 1981, focuses on the “combines” that integrated painting, sculpture and found objects.
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From “unfinished wallpaper” to his evolving paintings of water lilies, the display reflects an artist who was both an artistic and commercial success
Colorado had to release a health report. So it paid muralists to do it with paint.
A climate change tableau — the first of eight murals on health — is up in Fraser as the state tries to bring some color to sometimes stuffy reports.
Jared Polis doesn’t live at the governor’s mansion, but his top advisers get to stay rent-free
The private living areas at the residence still need $550,000 in renovations to upgrade them to modern standards for the first family, report says
What does music really do to us? Original Thinkers festival taps The Boss, scientists and revolutionaries for the answer
Egyptian protest musician Remy Essam, journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and researcher Bernadette Gonzalez experience music as savior, healer and peaceful weapon.
Colorado’s plan to embed arts space into historic districts may be slow to take shape. But towns are fine with that.
Creative industries are big business, but little towns are taking their time sketching plans to develop housing alongside studio space
A soldier’s plan to bomb an Indiana mosque was thwarted by a welcome that led to conversion to Islam
“The Secret Lives of Muslims” web series shares intimate perspectives of Muslim life in America and will screen during a panel at the Original Thinkers festival this weekend in Telluride.
Original Thinkers festival mines for creativity in limestone quarry near Telluride
“Otherworldly” installation hosted by Deep Creek Experimental is the mortar for lofty ideas floated 7 miles away in Mountain Village
“A Doll’s House” times two: DCPA Theatre Company experiments with epic-length production
Ibsen’s classic and a sequel written 140 years later staged together allows viewers to toggle between time periods and consider the social progress of women
Telluride’s Original Thinkers blends stories with art, music, movies, performances
“We hope people come out of this festival with not just clarity for what’s going on, but some fuel or juice to deal with everything and say ‘I can get out there make a positive impact,’” says organizer.
