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Tag Archives: arts
New Green Mountain Falls Art Installation To Use Light and Space to Explore Human Perception
A new immersive art installation is coming to Green Mountain Falls about 10 miles west of Colorado Springs. Construction began recently for artist James Turrell’s first Skyspace in Colorado. Once open, visitors will follow a third-of-a-mile-long trail through the forest … Continue reading
CU-Boulder Acquires The ‘Sharkive,’ A Trove Of Career-Spanning From Master Printmaker Bud Shark
Lyons printmaker Bud Shark’s work appears in some of the country’s best museums: New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., to name a few. The pieces stem from decades of … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, CU-Boulder, visual arts
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Women Who Pioneered Colorado’s Art Scene
Imagine hiking a Colorado 14er in a corset and long skirt. Would you do it just for the sake of art? In the 1870s landscape painter Helen Henderson Chain did. She’s among the women who helped lay the foundation for … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, colorado history, film, history, women
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The creator of James Bond becomes the spy in new historical thriller by Denver author
Denver author Francine Mathews gets inside the head of Ian Fleming, the writer who created the world’s most famous spy, in her new book, “Too Bad To Die.” She puts Fleming in the middle of a Nazi plot to kill Allied leaders, Franklin … Continue reading
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Tagged 007, arts, books, francine mathews, ian fleming, james bond, too bad to die
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Colorado painter braves snow, rain to capture rare backcountry scenes
Artist Michael Charron of Morrison has some surprising painting companions — llamas. He uses four of them to pack his gear into the wilderness, where he sets up his easel and paints what he sees, a method known as “plein … Continue reading
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Online Dating On Stage
Online dating became an addiction for actress and writer Luciann Lajoie, of Denver. She can’t say exactly how many dates she went on. Her best guess is somewhere around 75 or 80. Then she decided to step back from her … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, DATE*, dating, Denver Center, Luciann Lajoie, new plays, online dating, theater
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Denver’s Mizel Museum Gets Makeover
Denver’s Mizel Museum has a new, permanent exhibit. It’s called a “4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks.” The Mizel started almost 30 years ago as a gallery of traditional Jewish art. But as Curator Georgina Kolber tells Ryan Warner, the … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, jewish museum, mizel, tikkun olam
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