As the fall film festival whirligig draws to a close, the co-directors of the Telluride Film Festival must feel vindicated by the plaudits being heaped on many of their picks, including the technical tour de force and blockbuster-in-the-making, "Gravity." Here's the Rappler's spin, by KD...
[caption id="attachment_35315" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride, pictured in Transworld Business.(Here's hoping winter looks like this.)[/caption] Browsing the Internet, I came across this article in Transworld Business about Telski's new eyewear partner. "ZEAL Optics, the most sustainable sunglass company in the world, and Telluride Ski Resort, the most beautiful...
And the beat goes on. At the close of the fall film festival season, I came upon yet another article about a Telluride Film Festival favorite, the documentary "Tim's Vermeer," this one from The Hollywood Reporter. [caption id="attachment_35247" align="alignright" width="199"] "Tim's Vermeer," The Hollywood Reporter[/caption] "THR's awards...
[caption id="attachment_35202" align="alignright" width="150"] MASS MoCA, third incarnation of industrial site[/caption] The Site: A Phoenix It's Bilbao all over again, a story of a museum reviving a surrounding town. Starting in colonial times, North Adams was a prosperous place of wholesale shoe manufacturers, the site that is now MASS...
[caption id="attachment_35148" align="alignright" width="300"] Bruce Dern in "Nebraska," from "Thompson on Hollywood"[/caption] I do it all the time. Browse the Internet for interesting stories about Telluride and the Telluride lifestyle, a delightful balance of indoors and outdoors, mind and body, and adventures of all kinds, including...
A funny thing happened on the way to the Chagall show at the Jewish Museum. The door to the artist's darker works – read not all fiddlers on the roof and weightless couples free-floating "Gravity"-style in space – were slammed shut because of the Jewish...
Listen to Open Art Radio on KOTO from 12-1 p.m. on Thursday, October 3rd to hear interviews with the artists. [caption id="attachment_35049" align="alignright" width="189"] On Forest Road, a view of Lone Cone by Meredith Nemirov[/caption] All good things must come to an end. Thursday, October 3, is the last Art...
Things get really righteous when Linda Mack Berven and C. Scott Hagler come to town at the invitation of the Telluride Choral Society to do what they do best: playing the ivories. Linda, artistic director and conductor of Durango Choral Society and Scott, who is...
A certain Louis CK video in which he addresses in his usual poignant, funny style why he won’t get his kids a smart phone has gone viral in recent days. In case you’ve missed it, watch here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c0 ) In the spirit of non-electronics enhanced, creative play...
The Ah Haa School for the Arts is excited to announce a new schedule for our Fall Painting Academy This fall, Ah Haa offers two, two-week blocks for a total of four weeks of the Telluride Painting Academy. Artist Gregory Botts teaches the first session. Bott's intensive, "Figure Painting,...
