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2006 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Matt O’Neill

  published July 6, 2006

  It seems like everyone has their own list of who should be in Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 -- Present at the Museum of Contemporary... More >>

• Extra Innings

  published July 6, 2006

  Cydney Payton's name has been on the tip of everyone's tongue because of the roster of 72 artists that she included in Decades of Influence:... More >>

• Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 - Present

  published June 29, 2006

  Of the four aspects of Cydney Payton's marvelous Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 - Present, the part on view at the Carol... More >>

• Basis Loaded

  published June 29, 2006

  Cydney Payton, the director and curator of Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, has really outdone herself with Decades of Influence: Colorado... More >>

• Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 - present.

  published June 22, 2006

  Cydney Payton, the director of Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, must be a workaholic. Not only was the groundbreaking for the new David... More >>

• Home Run

  published June 22, 2006

  For the first time in its history, the Museum of Contemporary Art/ Denver is hosting a set of exhibitions that collectively work like a... More >>

• men + metal: amalgam, shift_context and Melinda Laz: new works on paper

  published June 15, 2006

  Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173), one of the top alternative art spaces in town, is currently given over to a group of shows that... More >>

• Heavy Thoughts

  published June 15, 2006

  Sitting on the lawn of the Colorado Convention Center adjacent to Speer Boulevard is "Indeterminate Line," that enormous rusted-steel spiral... More >>

• Regina Benson/Dorothy Caldwell

  published June 8, 2006

  It may seem like there's a new gallery opening in town every day, but it's actually only about one ribbon-cutting per week. One of the latest to... More >>

• Realist Democracy

  published June 8, 2006

  You'd think that by now artists would have tired of recording the sights of the world in the tried-and-true mediums of painting and drawing. For... More >>

• New Talent

  published June 1, 2006

  Like the pop charts, boutiques and Hollywood, the art world is always looking for the latest thing. And because the newest ideas are usually found... More >>

• Starting Now

  published June 1, 2006

  Believe it or not, in the 1950s, Colorado's main art scene was seated not in Denver, but in Colorado Springs, of all places. The most... More >>

• Wallflowers & Pinups

  published May 25, 2006

  Surely one of the city's funkiest, grungiest, edgiest and strangest art galleries is Capsule (554 Santa Fe Drive, 303-623-3460), the brainchild of... More >>

• Colorado Dreaming

  published May 25, 2006

  The swank David Cook Fine Art has been riding the recent wave of interest in the art of the American West, a formerly untapped treasure trove. One... More >>

• Place: Fine Art Alumni Invitational

  published May 18, 2006

  During the past ten years, the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (1600 Pierce Street, 303-753-6046) has emerged as a local powerhouse.... More >>

• Points West and Weston

  published May 18, 2006

  At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, artists were attracted to the West by its majestic scenery. Then, in the... More >>

• Hamilton Building Expansion

  published May 11, 2006

  During the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Denver Museum of Contemporary Art last week, executive director Cydney Payton addressed the crowd... More >>

• Next Up

  published May 11, 2006

  On the morning of Monday, May 1, throngs of Mexican-Americans, most of them young, marched through downtown Denver -- and cities across the... More >>

• URBAN ORGANICA

  published May 4, 2006

  Ivar Zeile, director of + Gallery (2350 Lawrence Street, 303-296-0927), went to college in Utah and during his student days became friends with... More >>

• Smart and Pretty

  published May 4, 2006

  Among the standard features of the visual arts, two attributes rise above the others: what something looks like, and what it means. The rise of... More >>

• Mel Strawn: Coins & Medals +

  published April 27, 2006

  The Sandra Phillips Gallery (744 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-5969) has stumbled on a niche in the art market: featuring the work of well-known... More >>

• Round Up

  published April 27, 2006

  Having people from both inside and outside the art world come to me and plug a show is a standard feature of my life as an art critic. What's... More >>

• Industrial Undergrowth, Directions in Abstraction and KATHRYN OBERDORFER

  published April 20, 2006

  Five to ten years ago, there seemed to always be some kind of over-the-top installation at Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173), but... More >>

• Arts and Sciences

  published April 20, 2006

  Up until the 1960s, people argued in all seriousness that photography was not a fine art because a machine was used to produce it. Today this... More >>

• Skyline Park

  published April 13, 2006

  Skyline Park, which runs along Arapahoe Street between 15th and 18th streets, was once a world-class example of modernist landscape design. It was... More >>