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2007 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Una Cultura: Tres Voces and Altar Girls

  published May 3, 2007

  The influence of Latin American culture, and Mexican in particular, is easy to find in Denver. For more than a generation, Chicano artists have... More >>

• Sketches

  published April 26, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• Entering the Dream: The Figurative Sculpture of Caroline Douglas | Fantastical Paintings by Santiago Perez

  published April 26, 2007

  The stable of artists featured at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585) work in a range of styles, but one stands out: magic... More >>

• Current | Laura Fayer

  published April 26, 2007

  There's something about abstraction that keeps it keeping on, despite a fairly successful assault from postmodernism's conceptual realism that... More >>

• Sketches

  published April 19, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• Pattern Recognition

  published April 19, 2007

  Michael Chavez, the curator at Foothills Art Center (809 15th Street, Golden, 303-279-3922), has organized Pattern Recognition,... More >>

• Eight Painters & Sculptors at the University of Denver 1930-1965

  published April 19, 2007

  More than any other institution in the city, the University of Denver should be credited with establishing and nurturing contemporary art in the... More >>

• Debut

  published April 12, 2007

  The radical forms of Daniel Libeskind's Frederic C. Hamilton Building have been difficult for the Denver Art Museum's staff -- and builders -- to... More >>

• Denver Art Museum

  published April 12, 2007

  The news coming out of the Denver Art Museum over the past few weeks has been shocking. More than 200 staff members spread across every... More >>

• Sketches

  published April 5, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• Tipping Point

  published April 5, 2007

  Frequently the alternative art spaces in town feature work that only a mother could love, but every once in a while they feature a show that's as... More >>

• Halim Al-Karim, Kris Cox and Christopher Morris

  published April 5, 2007

  I was talking with an artist friend the other day, and as usual, the topic was current aesthetic trends. He told me how tired he is of all the art... More >>

• Sketches

  published March 22, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• Don Coen

  published March 22, 2007

  Western art and contemporary art would seem to be mutually exclusive, but they're not. There are many artists in the area who combine the two... More >>

• Extinct?

  published March 22, 2007

  Historic preservation in Denver is really in trouble right now, despite its many successes. The easy-to-understand community benefits of landmark... More >>

• In Significance

  published March 15, 2007

  Some time ago, Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, accused me of always making fun of her titles. I strongly made the claim that she was... More >>

• Residual Memory

  published March 15, 2007

  I've sometimes been criticized for promoting our own art scene too much, though my detractors often misunderstand my position. It's not that I... More >>

• Visual Arts Complex

  published March 8, 2007

  The University of Colorado's Department of Art and Art History, as good as it is and as talented as some of the faculty are (see review, page 46),... More >>

• 2007 Faculty Exhibition

  published March 8, 2007

  The University of Colorado is the state's premier learning institution, and Boulder is the region's only true college town, on par with Madison,... More >>

• Sketches

  published March 1, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• REALationships: Works of Surreal Inspiration

  published March 1, 2007

  Michael Chavez has been the curator at Foothills Art Center (809 15th Street, Golden, 303-279-3922) for a little over a year, but the current... More >>

• 108 Blue Cranes

  published March 1, 2007

  Just last year, Japanese-American artist Yoshitomo Saito moved to Colorado, and he's already the subject of a major solo: 108 Blue... More >>

• Sketches

  published February 22, 2007

  Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to... More >>

• Penelope Caldwell

  published February 22, 2007

  Penelope Caldwell is a great-looking solo in the front room of Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1088). On the south wall... More >>

• (New) Disasters of War

  published February 22, 2007

  A specialty of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture is presenting multi-disciplinary projects that combine art shows, films, lectures and panel... More >>