Culture

"Does God Cuss?" Is the Bible just children's stories about heroes and virtuous women? People who say that they believe "every word of the Bible," may not be aware of some of the more notorious words and stories contained therein. What does it mean to take...

Not only is the Telluride Film Festival done and gone, so is the After the Telluride Film Fest, but the reviews keep rolling in. We think one from The Wall Street Journal online is particularly good. The very first thing I saw at this year's Telluride Film...

Feel that cold breeze in the air? Summer is in the rear view mirror. Fall is canopies of red, gold and orange leaves. It is puffy vests, cashmere sweaters and boots once again. It is lattes – it is always lattes – ale and pumpkins....

"Adding something fresh and necessary to the genre of portraiture may seem impossible, but in that realm, Jenny Morgan is crushing it. Don't label her paintings figurative or photoreal. Her extraordinary skills for rendering the human figure are besides the point. Layers of the unconscious...

Bear safety for the 21st century, presented by Telluride Theatre in association with Black  Bear Awareness Week. Wednesday, September 9 and Thursday, September 10, 8 p.m. at the Steaming Bean. FREE! Five years strong! BEAR IT! an original show, played to SOLD OUT Telluride audiences 2009, 2010, 2013...

Six Companies Will Be Selected for Participation in Five-Month Entrepreneurship Program [caption id="attachment_41331" align="aligncenter" width="350"] MIT’s Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast featured TVA’s Thea Chase, then managing director of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.[/caption] The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) announces the...

In the second decade of the 20th century old-fashioned realism made way for abstraction, which became the Holy Grail of modern art. Cezanne and Cubism were two of the triggers that motivated painters and sculptors to stop copying what is and instead find the essence of what is. Commune...

Inspiring creativity on the deepest level [caption id="attachment_44808" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Pinkney, Wave Hill[/caption] When Robert Weatherford, board member and director of the center’s Telluride Painting School, Ah Haa School for the Arts, talks about painting, he doesn’t speak about technical skills. Instead the emphasis  is on the important journey that...

This fascinating post, How Diego Rivera Met the Fierce Teenage Frida Kahlo and Fell in Love With Her Years Later, from Maria Popova, the founder and blogger at BrainPickings, explores the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. “I did not know it...