Email Author Michael Paglia

1995 Stories by Michael Paglia

• TOP MARKS

  published December 20, 1995

  How lucky Robin Rule must be. No sooner had she moved her namesake gallery from the Siberia of an off-street spot at the Icehouse in Lodo to... More >>

• FRIENDLY PERSUASION

  published December 13, 1995

  One of the great art soap operas of the past year has been the acrimonious split between Open Press, the respected printmaking outfit, and CSK... More >>

• THE BEAT GOES ON

  published December 6, 1995

  In the 1950s, when it seemed as if every artist in America was working in an abstract style, a handful of visionaries in the San Francisco area... More >>

• REMEMBRANCES

  published November 22, 1995

  Russell Beardsley's sculptures, wall reliefs, mixed-media pieces and an installation are interspersed with Debra Goldman's photos and... More >>

• HOLY MOTHERWELL!

  published November 15, 1995

  If it's a taste of Manhattan modernism you're craving this fall (and who isn't?) run, do not walk, to Options 3--Robert Motherwell, the Denver Art... More >>

• GONE SOUTH

  published November 8, 1995

  Quick--name three women artists from Latin America. Well, there's Frida Kahlo, of course, and then there's, uh...er.... That most of us know... More >>

• WESTWARD HO!

  published November 1, 1995

  The American frontier of the nineteenth century was a bonanza for both nature-loving romantics and the pragmatic forces of manifest destiny. And... More >>

• OUT THE WINDOW

  published October 25, 1995

  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of that country's most famous contemporary artists have come to settle in the West, especially in New... More >>

• ABSTRACT CONCEPTS

  published October 18, 1995

  Several current local shows zero in on the renewed vitality of abstract art in the Nineties. Chief among these are the group exhibit Reinventing... More >>

• AGONY AND ECSTASY

  published October 18, 1995

  Expressing a variety of minority views through art is the goal of two exhibits currently on view at Golden's Foothills Art Center. According to... More >>

• FRONTIER WOMEN

  published October 11, 1995

  It truly is fall in Denver, and the trees themselves are coming down along with the leaves. Given this loss to our visual environment, it's some... More >>

• BUCKBOARDS

  published October 4, 1995

  Museum-quality art can often be found at LoDo's Robischon Gallery. Rarely, though, are the gallery's three display spaces all devoted to the work... More >>

• GOING, GOING--GONE

  published September 27, 1995

  Lately, and increasingly, museums across the country and around the world have begun "deaccessioning"--selling off parts of their existing... More >>

• PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY

  published September 20, 1995

  Words, just like art objects, are subject to fashion. Suddenly everyone is using the word "venerable" or mouthing a phrase like "narrative... More >>

• GLASS ACT

  published September 13, 1995

  People often talk about art when they're actually referring to something else. We hear about the art of the deal, the art of medicine. There's the... More >>

• PIGMENTS OF THE IMAGINATION

  published September 6, 1995

  To many in the art world, painting is the center stage, the place where the aesthetic stakes are the highest. The Boulder Museum of Contemporary... More >>

• PEEP SHOW

  published August 30, 1995

  The depiction of the nude figure in the fine arts isn't just ancient--it's genuinely age-old. In the Paleolithic cave paintings of France and... More >>

• PLAYLIST

  published August 23, 1995

  Foo Fighters Foo Fighters (Capitol) First off, let's make one thing clear: This debut long-player from former Nirvana drummer Dave... More >>

• GOING UP

  published August 23, 1995

  For nearly twenty years, the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute has chosen a handful of writers, dancers, visual artists and others to receive... More >>

• THE WRIGHT STUFF

  published August 9, 1995

  Buildings are among the most public of artifacts--they're really out there, literally. So it's a shame that most of Denver's built environment is... More >>

• GONE WITH THE WIND

  published August 2, 1995

  Between the First World War and the 1930s, the United States experienced an internal population shift unprecedented in its history. More than 1... More >>

• THIRTY-SOMETHINGS

  published July 26, 1995

  A major event in the local art world of the 1980s was the "21 Year Show," presented eleven years ago at the now-defunct Progresso Gallery. It... More >>

• SPACED OUT

  published July 19, 1995

  In recent years, Loveland has acquired a national reputation as the place where romantics and cornballs send their Valentine's Day cards to be... More >>

• GRAND CANYON

  published July 12, 1995

  Few artists in this country have achieved the kind of fame that Georgia O'Keeffe has. Her life and work are, without exaggeration, the stuff of... More >>

• STREET PEOPLE

  published July 5, 1995

  The black-and-white photos of Don Donaghy are often out of focus, overexposed and underlighted, so it's no surprise to learn that Donaghy has... More >>