Culture

When we see performances around town, we often notice the splendid artwork and backdrops that share the stage. Too often that artwork is quickly packed up or worse, painted over, after the play is finished. Duff Redux, Buff Hooper's show which is opening this Thursday...

The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are excited to announce the 2013-14 Cinematheque lineup. The series, entitled "They Came to Telluride: Women Behind the Lens" and programmed by Telluride Film Festival co-artistic director Gary Meyer, explores influential women filmmakers from an international stage, all of...

A funny thing happened on the way to the Chagall show at the Jewish Museum. The door to the artist's darker works – read not all fiddlers on the roof and weightless couples free-floating "Gravity"-style in space – were slammed shut because of the Jewish...

Halloween, that fun-filled ghoulish holiday, is fast approaching. To celebrate the occasion, the Telluride Historical Museum has several tricks (and treats) up its sleeve. Join in the fun throughout October: Haunted History is a series of spooky events that take place on Thursday and weekends. Everything...

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...

Ian Tyson in concert at the Telluride Conference Center, Saturday, October 12, 2013 In the middle of an earlier century my brother said I had to hear this new folk duet, Ian and Sylvia. I heard them, liked what I heard, especially their hit song, "Four...

The Wilkinson Public Library Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Brenda Carns will become Interim Director of the Library starting Monday, September 30. Carns is a collaborative leader who brings many years of administrative experience to the Wilkinson. She is an effective communicator who was...

Join the Telluride Foundation in celebrating and honoring Rolley, 2013 Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Event at Arroyo Telluride, 220 East Colorado, Thrs, October 3, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors voted Dean Rolley as the 2013 Outstanding Citizen. Rolley was one of 14...

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...