Facing a fast foot of snow, February’s First Friday found us in front of the fireplace. Now Denver’s 20 minutes of cabin fever has worn off and the rest of the month looks fast and furious. Dance and multi-media collide in Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s latest, “Love...
One of Salvador Dali's signature images, "Persistence of Memory, " 1931, inspired three of the nine sculptures currently on display throughout Megeve: "Persistence of Memory," "Profile of Time," and "Dance of Time II." All three works of art feature melting clocks. And "melting" became a...
Late morning, on a Colorado blue sky day in Megeve, we headed up the mountain to meet friends who had traveled by snow shoe up 2,000 gnarly (read, "icy in spots") vertical feet to our rendezvous spot. To get there, the rest of our party drove...
Now I know where the snow gods traveled when they went AWOL around the New Year. They made a beeline for the Alps. For the past several days we have been in Megeve, located in the Haute-Savoie department, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France. Megeve started its development as...
Yesterday we did a lot of looking again, this time thinking outside the frame as it were. We were not focused on paintings, but on clothes. My friend and I determined to shop until we dropped. January is the month the government sets for sales. In...
Apres le boeuf, la creme brulee. After the steak, dessert. The Stein Collection for example versus the show at the Musee D'Orsay, "Beaute, morale et volupte dans L'Angleterre d'Oscar Wilde," apologetically about sex and sizzle. Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. As one of...
The historic Beaux-Art building known as the Grand Palais (Grand Palace) on the Champs Elysee (8th arrondissement) marked the first stop on yesterday's tour of the City of Lights. The Grand Palais is currently playing host to a family reunion of sorts. Art collected by writer...
Talk about window treatment. The boys from the 13th century really got it down. The most famous feature of the 13th-century royal chapel known as Sainte-Chapelle are the stained glass windows: 15 of them fill the nave and apse and a large rose window dominates...
Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There's also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen's latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like now,...
Clyfford Still Museum quietly shouts for joy, provides counterpoint to Denver Art Museum. A paean to the artist, Denver's brand spanking new Clyfford Still Museum is also a monument to the glory days of America, which emerged Phoenix-like from the ashes of World War II as...
