This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...

Author’s note: this article is a heavily edited and updated version of my personal definitions previously posted here on Bloodyelbow (source 1, source 2). From time to time, I like to share my ...

Bourgeois civilization, now spread all over the planet, and which has yet to be successfully overcome anywhere, is haunted by a shadow: its culture, which appears in the modern dissolution of all its ...

“What is the meaning of music?” This was the question I threw out to my unsuspecting wife and kids at dinner one night. The assembled children consisted of a few high schoolers, a middle schooler and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For nearly 10 days, the world's hottest art wasn't in New York, Paris, or Los Angeles, but in the desolate Utah desert. On November 18, a group of ...

Beyoncé and Jay Z stunned the world on June 16 when they dropped their epic new joint album, Everything Is Love and the music video for the track, “Apesh-t.” The majestic video features the power ...

This question immediately brings up a whole host of other questions. Almost anything can constitute art in this day and age. One need only look as far as Mark Rothko to see this. His pieces are ...

It’s amazing what the City Council will do to avoid letting the voters decide an issue. Our city attorneys determined that the TOPS ordinance and city code did not set a definition for “motorized uses ...

Late night writing by the light of a TV screen in motel rooms, Art d’Ecco was seeing a world never visible to him before, and started piecing together In Standard Definition (Paper Bag Records).

There is something enduringly mysterious about the human capacity for language. Our mouths and throats contain an array of muscles and tissue that allow us to modulate the air we take in, transforming ...

Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning presents an in-depth look at materials and techniques used to create artworks. Inspired by the research of faculty and curators at CU, the exhibition is ...