Author: Susan Viebrock

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,...

Magritte (through January 12, 2014): What you see is not necessarily what you get. What you see is a pipe. But the label says: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." "This is not a pipe." And despite appearance, the object is not a pipe. Why? Because you can't smoke...

What does Telluride have in common with Haines, Alaska; Spring Green, Wisconsin; Berea, Kentucky; Galena, Illinois and Little Compton, Rhode Island? Trolling the Internet, I came upon this article in the Huffington Post about "America's Best Small Towns." The 2012 Census confirmed what most Americans already...

Created in 1986, the mission of Telluride TV, originally TCTV12, remains, in a nutshell, to provide a voice for the community through media arts education, community based content, and access to broadcasting. Under the leadership of executive director Katie Karow, Telluride TV is growing quickly, and...

Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade" and Julia Margaret Cameron: Set your watches back to the 16th century, a colorful time in history, when countries including Portugal, Spain, France and Holland created a virtual cat's cradle of trade routes on the world...

Little known fact: she painted and though no Picasso, she was good. She was a fashionista and though no Anna Wintour, she became a trend setter. In 1966, when she joined the Haight-based psychedelic-rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, her adoption of a wildly...

Out of 15 nominations, Woody Allen won three times, the most in the category. Francis Ford Coppola (1970) and Sofia Coppola (2003) are the only father-daughter pair to triumph; Joel and Ethan Coen, the only siblings to take home a statue. Muriel Box was the first...