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Kyle Harris

Kyle Harris has been Westword’s Culture Editor since 2016, writing about the arts, music and film.

Real Hip-Hop Has a New Voice. Meet K’Valentine. You Won’t Regret It.

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 27, 2017

Poetry flows from Chicago hip-hop artist and Talib Kweli protege K’Valentine. Whether she’s rapping about fucking while hip-hop plays on a stereo, her longing for Atlanta (a city she likens to a guy with nappy hair and gold teeth), the anti-Chi-Raq movement, mentoring a new generation of artists, her family…

Composer Kevin Puts on 9/11, the “Tragedy” of Trump, and Beethoven Envy

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 27, 2017

What happens when you juxtapose Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor,” an orchestral masterpiece whose sublime grandeur seems impossible to rival, with Kevin Puts’s much gentler (albeit not that gentle) “Symphony No. 2,” a modern orchestral work the contemporary composer wrote in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks?

Short Movies About Our Dystopian Future, at Collective Misnomer

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 27, 2017

At the last Collective Misnomer screening, in December at the Dikeou Pop-Up, programmer Adán De La Garza blasted the City of Denver for closing two DIY venues in the wake of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, just before turning off the lights and presenting a program of deliciously plodding landscape movies — some wry, others philosophical — that challenge the way we see the world.

Artist Niki Tulk’s Irreverent Look at Ophelia’s Suicide

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 26, 2017

Making water safety videos in the context of Ophelia, the potential wife of Hamlet who drowns herself toward the end of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, isn’t the most intuitive response to the play. That is, unless you’re Niki Tulk, the United States born, Australian raised performance artist, who will be presenting her immersive installation, Ophelia | Leaves, in Boulder, on Friday, January 27.

Can an Experimental Dance Movie Save the Doomed Gunnison Sage Grouse?

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 25, 2017

The maligned Gunnison sage grouse is about to become a star. The bird, which has long been ridiculed for its bizarre appearance and its quirky mating rituals, has also been at the center of a fight between conservationists and oil-and-gas companies over the future of Bureau of Land Management-owned land in western Colorado. While it may be headed toward extinction, the puffy creature is making its debut as the subject of a movie, Last Chance to Dance.

Artists Can Honor the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — If They’ll Do It for Free

By Kyle HarrisJanuary 11, 2017

Artists thrive within limitations — at least, that’s one theory. A Wheat Ridge High School club’s request for proposals from local artists on how to celebrate the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — by decorating local traffic signal boxes wrapped in graffiti-resistant vinyl — is riddled with limitations. Among them: the artists won’t be paid.