Category: Culture
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Road Tripping, part three
The East Coast From Gaithersburg, we drove to Washington, DC, on the Clara Barton Parkway. The view entering the city is of the Kennedy Center across the Potomac. Stunning. I’ve never entered the city in that direction and loved the parkway. We cruised past the White House and Washington Monument and visited the National Building…
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Road Tripping, part two
Still in Texas. We headed out I-35 but diverted on Old Bastrop Highway before San Marcos. A highway marker said we were on the El Camino Real de los Tejas. The old highway from Mexico City. We stopped in Lockhart, TX, the barbeque capital of Texas, and bought some brisket, turkey, and sausage for our…
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Montrose’s Death Cafe
Death. We don’t like to talk about it. We usually fight it or try to ignore it. But for as long as we’ve lived, we’ve died. Death is inevitable. Earlier societies were much better at talking about death. Some of our primitive ancestors believed in life after death, viewing it as nothing more than a…
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The Systematic American Landscape
“There is perhaps no central theme to American national identity than the land. Over the years, it has served as a wellspring of aesthetic beauty, spiritual sustenance, and economic opportunity.” Thus reads a wall sign at the Corcoran Gallery of Art beneath the title “Nature as Nation: 19th Century American Landscapes from the Collection.” The…
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The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017
LAND & SEA ART Aspen artist Celia Gregory fuses her love of nature with community. When designing the Aspen Institute during the mid 1950s, Herbert Bayer honored the Bauhaus philosophy of merging design and the living world in one holistic creation. But it is Bayer’s earthen works, “Earth Mound” (or “Grass Mound”) and “Marble Garden,”…
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The Spanish-Navajo Jewelry Connection from Aug/Sep 2015 issue of Cowboys & Indians magazine
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Finding a Way to Write About Art
What is asked of me as an art writer and critic today, is not why I became an art writer and critic. In this time of great transition in media, art and business, there are more media venues than ever filled with everything from drivel to genius. More and more people are writing about art…
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Is Arts Incubator of the Rockies Imperiled by Rent Default? from adobeairstream.com
The future of Fort Collins’s national grant-winning arts organization Beet Street/Arts Incubator of the Rockies may be imperiled after the organization was recently in default on a year of rent to the City of Fort Collins. Reached by telephone, Beet Street/AIR executive director Beth Flowers told AdobeAirstream that the mission for AIR is changing. With that change comes…
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ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT – Art Intersecting “Innovation” and Equaling Nothing from adobeairstream.com
Described as “part freestyle musical theater, part dessert reception,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver created a special event for participants of the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) Summit, held in Denver at the Art Museum August 29-30. Adam Lerner, who sits on the board of COIN and his MCA creative team put together ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT to show…
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The Book of Mormon Debuts in Denver (and leaves one thinking politics) from adobeairstream.com
“You and me, but mostly me Are gonna change the world forever ‘Cause I can do most everything (And I can stand next to you and watch) And now we’re seeing eye to eye It’s so great, we can agree That Heavenly Father has chosen you and me Just mostly me.” These are lyrics from…
Leanne Goebel 