On April 11, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced the receipt of a $1.75 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will continue the transformation of the museum’s textile art department. A grant of $1.5 million in the form of a challenge to...
One of the most common criticisms I hear about raising kids in Telluride is the lack of culture. This always puzzles me because I’m fairly certain that if I lived in a city, I wouldn’t be taking my children to the symphony, the opera or...
[caption id="attachment_28342" align="alignright" width="300"] "Leonie"[/caption] Editor's note: When he is not busy running his uber edgy PLUS Gallery, 2501 Larimer, Ivar Zeile wears a different hat: cultural man about town. Here he previews an event from the Denver Film Society. The Denver Film Society, now boasting a...
Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly (more or less) column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both...
[caption id="attachment_27084" align="alignright" width="225"] The sacred mountain, Kailash[/caption] More than 30 years ago, I saw the Dalai Lama on German TV, laughing and joking as he likes to do. And I was appalled. I wondered self-righteously how the exiled leader of a country in utter despair...
Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly (more or less) column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both...
"Signature Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Piano Lesson brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theatre can be," Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [caption id="attachment_26471" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene, August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson[/caption] Stephen King would have taken the story...
[caption id="attachment_26439" align="alignright" width="150"] Kandinsky[/caption] On a two-day whirlwind trip to the Big Apple, we hung with a group of artists who lived at the same time and were similar in the fact they marched to their own drum. Or drums. Since their chosen paths were...
[caption id="attachment_25932" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bill Zeffiro and Carole J. Bufford[/caption] Wednesday, 12/12/12, would have been Frank Sinatra's 97th birthday. Though he died in 1998, the night proved once again that Frank's musical legacy is as fresh as tomorrow. Sinatra, as interpreted by a host of mostly young...
Editor's Note: Of course there's a Telluride connection. Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The Stones join a trio of 1960s British rock royalty on the bill, including Paul McCartney and the...
