Beyond Telluride

Having just seen the blockbuster show at New York's Museum of Art and Design,“Out of Hand: Materializing the Post-digital,” about a future when your meals, clothes, car, even your home can be 3D printed, (see link for related story), when we ran across another glimpse...

The Neue Galerie’s big spring show, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” was close to  three years in the making, but the pay off in the timing was that it opened more or less on the heels of the discovery of...

Master wordsmith David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies,  All In The Timing and Time Flies. All In The Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season, was the most performed play in the country...

[caption id="attachment_40173" align="aligncenter" width="194"] Spectacular necklace patterned on the Julius Set, a chaotic mathematical arrangement. Contains 2000 diamonds and sapphires.[/caption] We arrived in the Big Apple on Monday, toast from a cross-country trip (in a truck. Long story). But, stalwart souls that we are, we hit...

Looking for something to do this off-season?  Throw the bikes on the car, grab your compass and get ready for some great outdoor fun. Nestled in western Colorado's alluring high desert  just north west of Grand Junction, Fruita offers a variety of outdoor adventures including some...

Here's a good one for Jeopardy or the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle: What is the name of the person who invented video art? Art historians universally credit Korean-born Nam June Paik, who was married to another video artist, Shigeko Kubota, in the heyday of...

Of late, Telluride has had a lot of celebrate (our first Olympian, Gus Kenworthy, the end of a successful ski and cultural season). But the region has also had to shed a few tears following the recent and untimely deaths of our friends Eliot Muckerman...

A well-worn platitude floating around in the zeitgeist is the one about aging. If you are a Boomer, you've undoubtedly heard it (or said it) : like fine wine, you're not getting older; you're getting better. Well, actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch begs to differ....

Thanks to the miracle of modern technology –  and the Formbys (and their team) – last week Telluride was able to ingest Tuesday and Wednesday's sessions of the TED Talks (via simulcasts) taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rock star Sting was one of...

Remember when statements like, “You throw like a girl,” were insults? Back before Title IX, the Education Amendment in 1972 that gave equal opportunities and funding for women’s sports? Back before strong women represented dominant US women’s teams in sports like softball and soccer...