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[click "Play" to hear Skip Liepke's conversation with Susan]

 

Lady in Black Malcolm "Skip" Liepke's second one-man show opens at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, 130 East Colorado Avenue, Thursday, July 7, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., in sync with Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk, showing off the "Best Of" Telluride's fine art and retail scene.

If you missed it, the artist's first show was a doozy: wall-to-wall pulchritude and sensuality confronting us with looks that would melt steel, rendered by a  painter who is an unapologetic realist.

04 July, 2011 /

By David Feela

For decades, when summer melons rolled into the produce aisle, my mouth would water and I’d buy the biggest one. Unfortunately, not every watermelon is endowed with inalienable perfection, and I have carted home quite a few duds. Until I met Margaret in the produce aisle.

If this sounds like a soap opera, it’s because I had humongous twin melons strapped in the child seat of my cart. That’s when I saw Margaret. We slowed our carts, paused, and exchanged warm greetings. She had a single watermelon about the size of a soccer ball, a dark and glossy green one that reminded me of unripe fruit.

“Are you going to buy both of those?” Margaret asked me.

03 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Darrell Scott's conversation with Susan]

 

Sunset Concert series continues with Darrell Scott & Brothers in performance

Darrell Scott, TBF,6-19-2011 Guess you could call it his encore, a well deserved tribute to a man whose knock-out performances on the Main Stage bookended Sunday, June 19, at the recent 38th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The day started with Darrell's Father's Day Gospel Hour, during which he was the main performer, supported by the likes of Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin and Abigail Washburn. It ended with a bang with Robert's Plant's Band of Joy, including Darrell on guitar and vocals.

If you were not one of the lucky ones with a Sunday ticket to Telluride Bluegrass, now you are in luck. Darrell Scott, a songwriter's songwriter and musician's musician, returns, this time with his brothers, to the Telluride region and the spotlight to headline the 12th annual Sunset Concert Series in Mountain Village, Wednesday, July 6, starting at 6 p.m.

03 July, 2011 /

Brazilian musician to curate special program of films for the four-day Festival

Caetano+Veloso+126751636_f537753b33_o Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2011 Guest Director, Caetano Veloso. The beloved artist has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 38th Telluride Film Festival.  The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 
Festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.

 

03 July, 2011 /

East Valley Icon Getting a jump on Telluride Art's upcoming First Thursday Art Walk, July 7, and at the tail end of the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Telluride Plein Air, an outdoor art show featuring American Impressionists that ends at 4 p.m. July 3, Lustre Gallery presents the work of Marshall Noice. The artist's reception is Sunday, July 3, 4 – 6 p.m., 171 South Pine Street, a great excuse for those who can't get enough light in their lives to continue to wave their plein air banner high.

Marshall Noice never met a sky or a tree he did not like. For 36 years, the artist has been obsessed by landscapes. What we see in his work resembles the outside world the artist depicts much in the way a guitar case resembles a guitar: Noice is not painting a grove of trees for instance. He is depicting his emotional response to a grove of trees, which makes him an Expressionist for those who require an "ist" or an "ism." Noice is an Expressionist with Impressionistic flourishes and a Fauve sense of color.

02 July, 2011 /

 

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By Elisabeth Gick

[click "Play" to listen to Elisabeth's conversation with Peter Gold]

Author/anthropologist Peter Gold is coming to the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival.

Peter Gold is a man of many titles - anthropologist, ethno musician, student of Buddhism, traveler, author, professor. Maybe it’s a result of his Buddhist training that he is so easy-going, with a great smile. He will give one of the keynote speeches at the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival, July 8 – 10.

30 June, 2011 /

By Tracy Shaffer

Tracy at DAM The Denver Art Museum's current offering is a mud pie for the senses. With the most basic of themes, earth, this global exhibition brings together time and place to reveal how the artist deals with dirt. Curators from around the museum present their earthenwares in ways that honor the simultaneous beauty and function of the Coors Porcelain Company's vessels, the aesthic simplicity and eternal popularity of the blue & white ceramic, and the exquisite work of Native American potter, Nampeyo, who built a name for herself and a family legacy through her creations. 

27 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Josh Aronson and Adam Neiman]

 

Playinfg for Real poster Now in its 9th season, the Telluride Musicfest adds two new events to its 2011 lineup, a wine and dessert concert for all subscribers and sponsors to thank everyone for helping to ensure the Musicfest tradition of chamber music concerts in a private home continues – and a movie night.

Movie night takes place Wednesday, June 29, 6:00 at the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The event features a screening of producer/director Josh Aronson's inspiring one-hour documentary, "Playing for Real," (2000), an intimate look at building careers in big-time classical music. The film showcases the extraordinary talents of 14-year-old Japanese violin prodigy Mayuko Kamio and 2011 Musicfest guest pianist Adam Neiman – when he was 22 and already one of the finest pianists in the world.

26 June, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

MV5BMTg4MTQ3NTI3Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzEzODQ2NA@@._V1._SY317_ Caveofforgottendreams_smallposter The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens three films this coming week.

Friday through Thursday, June 24-30, the animated KUNG FU PANDA II plays at the Nugget for the whole family. Friday through Wednesday, the pre-wedding hijinks of the HANGOVER II continue its R rated laughs.

On Thursday, June 30 only, Telluride favorite Werner Herzog brings the amazing CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS to this month's Telluride Film Festival Presents, a unique view of prehistoric art long forgotten ,now remembered for all time.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.

23 June, 2011 /

By Jon Lovekin

A Tom Boy Ride
A Tom Boy Ride

Preparing for a festival as grand as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival takes time. For many Festivarians, the week to 10 day experience is their one vacation of the year. The excitement in the weeks before the Summer Solstice reaches a fever pitch the weekend before the music starts. In the early years, an entire festival was spent flopped in a tent in Town Park listening to the music from there, too sick from altitude, sun, and fun to be able to move.

As the festival caught on, pitching a tent in an empty lot or sleeping in a car late in the week ceased being possible. Prior planning became necessary and arrival in the campground early in the week morphed to getting there the weekend before. Town passes on the Landcruiser faded to no longer trying to leave town at all. We started working at the ticket booths, renting bikes, and moving in for the week.

23 June, 2011 /