In 1939, the University of Colorado began amassing a permanent art collection as a teaching tool – and, since the 1980s, stored the works, some 6,000 strong, in a climate-controlled vault. Now University has unveiled its …

AUSTIN – Arthouse renovations/expansion are nearly complete this week, as the fall season ramps up in Austin. The entire Arthouse staff has moved back into its 7th and Congress location, downtown (left). Although the front entrance …

The late Donald Fisher, founder of the Gap, amassed a major collection of contemporary art. He lent some of it to exhibitions (an excellent Martin Puryear show, for instance ), but mainly it stayed at Gap …

When you grok the size of Ron Nagles ceramic sculpture on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe to 9/25 — often theyre only about 4 inches tall, as slim as 2 ⅝ deep, and …

In Charles Bowdens opening talk for the Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border symposium, the acerbic journalist spoke about the hard boil, hard tack Boy Scout in him. “Americans think things should be fixed,” …

Why come to a festival like the Toronto International film Festival (TIFF) if not to find what Michael Lewis calls “the new new thing” ? One of those things this year is the faith-based film, at …

The 17th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place this weekend starting on Friday the 17th and ending on Sunday the 19th.  This is definitely one of the premiere blues festivals in the country and …

June Wayne is nearly 93 years old, though were it not for an occasional quiver in her voice and movements, you might never guess it. In Albuquerque for the celebrations of Tamarind Institutes 50th anniversary, the …

In preparing for the Toronto International Film Festival and reading some of the press coverage that came out of the Telluride Film Festival, I noticed praise for The Kings Speech by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth …

Rule Gallery on Denvers lower Broadway is a long narrow room that, when I entered on a recent hot Saturday, offered up a space-expanding installation by Yoshitomo Saito, All Gods Children Got Rhythm – a late-in-the-day, …