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2012 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Now Showing

  published February 9, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist.... More >>

• The spectacular Recalcitrant Mimesis will stop you in your tracks

  published February 9, 2012

  No doubt about it, the biggest art news this season has been the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. Located near the Denver Art Museum, the... More >>

• Hand-Painted China

  published January 5, 2012

  Nothing has come on stronger in the late 20th and early 21st centuries than Chinese artwork, and, amazingly, Denver has been a center for its new... More >>

• Now Showing

  published February 2, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist.... More >>

• Robert Mangold's Time, Space and Motion is definitely the main event, and not just in Arvada

  published February 2, 2012

  Though the twenty-something Collin Parson — son of prominent Colorado sculptor Chuck Parson — has the official title of Gallery... More >>

• Now Showing

  published January 26, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Gary Emrich's Contact layers video on video for an abstract effect

  published January 26, 2012

  One of the most important curatorial departments at the Denver Art Museum (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, More >>

• Oxytocin and Pendent Tendencies give Ice Cube Gallery an installation charge

  published January 19, 2012

  The RiNo neighborhood's Ice Cube Gallery has emerged as a leader in presenting installation art — in part, I'm sure, because of the... More >>

• Old Modern

  published January 5, 2012

  Between 1908 and 1952, Kansas painter Birger Sandzén spent nearly every summer here and thus became one of the most important artists to... More >>

• Now Showing

  published January 12, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Monique Crine's Tony James show is a handsome exhibit of Western characters

  published January 12, 2012

  Denver artist Monique Crine is known as much for her photos as she is for her remarkably accomplished photo-realist paintings. She doesn't... More >>

• Find the counterculture at MCA Denver's West of Center

  published Dec 27, 2011

  ​Though not part of an ambitious series of events like Pacific Standard Time, our own MCA Denver is participating in the same zeitgeist anyway, with West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Ex More >>

• Juxtapozition: Bayer & Chisman at Z Art Dept. offers two styles of work on paper

  published Oct 13, 2011

  ​From the 1940s to the 1970s, Aspen's Herbert Bayer was one of the premier artists in Colorado; from the '80s to the first decade of the 21st century, Denver's Dale Chisman played a similar role More >>

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  Rule Gallery to quit Broadway and move to RiNo

  published Feb 22, 2011

  ​After more than a decade on Broadway, Rule Gallery, one of the city's top contemporary art dealers, will be relocating in March to RiNo. Sky-high rents on Broadway have led owner Robin Rule to More >>

• Shuttered: Camera Obscura to close later this spring

  published Jan 17, 2011

  ​ Hal Gould started curating photo shows back in 1963 when he was the director of exhibitions for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Then, in 1979, he opened Camera Obscura Gallery near the More >>

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  Preview: RedLine remembers Dale Chisman

  published Jan 11, 2011

  ​ Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado -- a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But C More >>

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  Ten artists who left their mark on Colorado in 2010

  published Dec 29, 2010

  ​Colorado is a regional art center with literally thousands of artists displaying their work in venues around the state that are as varied as coffee shops and museums. Here's a list of ten artis More >>

• What's so funnyr Barn-find Rembrandt at the DAM

  published Sep 02, 2010

  ​A tiny oil on copper painting--less than 9x7 inches--was put on display yesterday at the Denver Art Museum in the European and American art galleries in the Ponti Building. The painting, entit More >>

• American Indian art comes out of storage at the Aurora History Museum

  published Aug 16, 2010

  ​When the Aurora History Museum moved to its current location in 1991, the debut exhibition was dedicated to Native American art collected by Bill and Sue Hensler. Now, almost twenty years later More >>

• Unfortunate ironies abound in the title of a Women in Design lecture

  published Aug 05, 2010

  ​The nonprofit advocacy group, Women in Design, is sponsoring a lecture tonight at Walker Fine Art called "Work is Freedom." The topic is the work of three significant 20th century modernist de More >>

• Santiago Calatrava's designs for DIA take flight

  published Jul 30, 2010

  ​There's been a lot of talk about whether Denver can afford to build the set of designs by Santiago Calatrava done for the expansion of Denver International Airport. The reasonr Times are hard, More >>

• Cathey McClain Finlon named Denver Art Museum president; director Lewis Sharp to retire in two years

  published Apr 02, 2009

  The head of the Denver Art Museum's board of trustees, Frederic C. Hamilton, announced this afternoon that longtime boardmember Cathey McClain Finlon will become the institution's interim president. More >>

• Layoffs at the Lab and MCA: Job losses in the wake of Adam Lerner appointment

  published Mar 16, 2009

  Mark Falcone, head of the board at MCA Denver and the founder, former board chairman and current boardmember of the Lab at Belmar, is apparently running both not-for-profit institutions as though th More >>

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  Adam Lerner's start gets dumber: Cartoon labrador mars photo of MCA's building

  published Mar 09, 2009

  Ever since word leaked out that Adam Lerner, who's guided the Belmar Lab, would replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver, many art-scene observers (me included) were concerned that More >>

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  Art community riled up over loss of Mary Chandler's Rocky Mountain News column

  published Mar 04, 2009

  With the closing of the Rocky Mountain News last week, many in the community -- other than Jared Polis, of course -- have been disappointed, if not downright angry. This is definitely the case in th More >>