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The Benedict Music Tent host the main events at the Aspen Music Festival. Image provided by Aspen Music Festival.

Aspen and Vail music fests, never really rivals, are now collaborators

July 5, 2016 at 4:24 p.m.

The mega-music fests in Aspen and Vail have never been competitors in their own minds, though classical consumers have always considered them rivals when it comes to choosing which concerts...

Artist Patrick Dougherty makes sculptures out of sticks. This is one of his earlier creations. Photo provided by Green Box Arts.

Don’t miss: Artist collects sticks, makes sculpture

June 20, 2016 at 2:26 p.m.

The Green Box Arts Festival returns to Green Mountain Falls this week with a lineup of art and music well worth drive south.

The Janelle Iglesias exhibit at the CU Art Museum includes thousands of objects pulled from the university's collections. Photo by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post.

Janelle Iglesias recycles University of Colorado collections into art

June 21, 2016 at 8:53 p.m.

The University of Colorado Art Museum has grown in meaningful ways since Sandra Q. Firman took over as director not so long ago, and the most potent example is the...

Violinist Jennifer Koh opens the Colorado Music Fest. Photo provided by CMF.

Colorado Music Festival opens big with Jennifer Koh

July 5, 2016 at 4:24 p.m.

The Colorado Music Festival is one of those artistic jewels that make the state a magical place for classical in summer. The 2016 version opens big in Boulder this week...

Black Cube鈥檚 current project, ROAM, put artist Jon Geiger鈥檚 billboard-like sculpture of a rolling tumbleweed. (Tim Vacca, Museum of Outdoor Arts.)

Artists dream big without limits of walls and ceilings

June 16, 2016 at 3:31 p.m.

Black Cube nomadic museum brings Jon Geiger's giant, neon, billboard of a tumblewood to Colorado.

The Ice Cube gallery inside the Dry Ice Factory. We're doing a piece on the River North Arts District, a fast-growing gallery and studio district in northeast Denver. We'll talk about the whole and then do quick hits of five spaces. Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post

Don’t miss: RiNo’s Ice Cube Gallery closes with a party and sale

June 14, 2016 at 3:39 p.m.

The gallery is giving itself a blow-out closing party from 5 p.m.- midnight.

Patricia Racette as the title character and George Gagnidze as Scarpia in a scene from Act II of Puccini's "Tosca."
Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

Met Opera back with “Tosca” encore

June 14, 2016 at 3:48 p.m.

The local opera scene takes some down time in June, but the Metropolitan Opera House in New York is stepping in with encore screenings of its biggest hits from last...

An earlier installation of Amanda Parer's inflatable rabbits. Image provided by Arts Brookfield.

Don’t be surprised if you see giant, inflatable rabbits lighting up Denver

June 15, 2016 at 6:35 a.m.

Arts Brookfield, one of downtown Denver's biggest landlords, is going huge with its art exhibits this month, installing artist Amanda Parer's giant, inflatable rabbits in front of its two tallest...

Mark Bradford's "Butch Queen" from 2016.
Photograph by Joshua White, provided by the Clyfford Still Museum.

Mark Bradford gets shows at Denver Art Museum, Clyfford Still Museum

June 9, 2016 at 3:43 p.m.

Mark Bradford gets pair of shows at Denver Art Museum and Clyfford Still Museum. Artist will show here before representing U.S.at Venice Biennale

DAM corrects the record with 鈥漌omen of Abstract Expressionism鈥�

July 12, 2016 at 3:34 p.m.

鈥漌omen of Abstract Expressionism鈥� is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to impact the way we think about art history in the United...

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