Arts & Humanities
- Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, cinema studies chair—and man who’s “morally opposed” to remakes—gives a thumbs-up to Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Award-nominated version of “West Side Story.”
- The successful completion of the music+ campaign illustrates the commitment of the campus and community to music education and the performing arts. The college is celebrating the generosity of its supporters and continuing to build one of the premier public music programs in the country.
- Ƶ Boulder’s American Music Research Center is creating a comprehensive digital archive of the Grauman Theatre Scores Collection.
- This summer, Cuban citizens erupted into a series of protests against their government. In this Q&A, Professor Susan Thomas speaks about the role musicians played in the recent demonstrations and in Cuban protests throughout history.
- Ƶ Boulder’s internationally renowned Takács Quartet won a 2021 Gramophone Classical Music Award in the Chamber category for their 2019 recording of two complementary piano quintets with pianist Garrick Ohlsson.
- A two-year effort to build a more complete account of the histories of the Japanese and Japanese American communities at the University of Colorado from World War II to the present day resulted in significant growth to the University Libraries Archives.
- “What slashers do is they carve into the world and balance the scales of justice," says horror writer and Ƶ Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones. His newest book, "My Heart is a Chainsaw," is in bookstores now.
- The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is offering a virtual workshop for kids 12–18 years old is hosting unexpected professionals, including a brilliant rap artist who will teach attendees how to blend classical sonnets with contemporary hip-hop beats.
- Professor Phoebe Young’s new book encourages those heading to the great outdoors this summer to reflect on the long history of camping and its implications on inclusion, homelessness and protest culture.
- The Ƶ Boulder journal English Language Notes helped unpack the mystery of Harlem Renaissance writer and poet Claude McKay’s novel, which was unknown for 87 years.