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2008 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Capsule reviews of current exhibits

  published October 23, 2008

  Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and... More >>

• Natural Abstractions at Walker Fine Art

  published October 23, 2008

  In the front gallery at Walker Fine Art (300 West 11th Avenue, 303-355-8955, More >>

• A Wynne Wynne for Denver's Kirkland Museum

  published October 23, 2008

  Hugh Grant, director of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, has relentlessly carried the torch for Colorado's art history, doing more... More >>

• Now Showing

  published October 16, 2008

  Adam Helms. This solo in the MCA's Paper Works Gallery is the New York artist's first museum show anywhere. In his works on paper and in... More >>

• Jonas Burgert

  published October 16, 2008

  When I went to the MCA/Denver (1485 Delgany Street, 303-298-7554, www.mcadenver.org) last week to... More >>

• The beauty and ugliness of Damien Hirst

  published October 16, 2008

  You'd have to be living under a rock — or have absolutely no interest in contemporary art — not to know that Damien Hirst is a... More >>

• Now Showing

  published October 9, 2008

  Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and... More >>

• Ann Daley leaves the Denver Art Museum

  published October 9, 2008

  I was really disappointed to learn that Ann Daley (pictured), associate curator of Western art at the Denver Art Museum, had decided to... More >>

• The Denver Art Museum goes big with Daniel Richter

  published October 9, 2008

  Christoph Heinrich, the Denver Art Museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, must be a workaholic. In recent months, he's unveiled two... More >>

• Size Matters and I Don't Feel At All Like I Fall

  published October 2, 2008

  It's amazing how inexhaustible abstract expressionism is as an aesthetic ideology, both in its attenuated original form -- going strong for... More >>

• Now Showing

  published October 2, 2008

  Adam Helms. This MCA solo is the New York artist's first museum show anywhere. In his works on paper and in a monumental sculpture that... More >>

• Dave Yust's Arvada Center show is well rounded

  published October 2, 2008

  With no exhibition director on staff at present, the art program at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is essentially rudderless.... More >>

• Now Showing

  published September 25, 2008

  Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo... More >>

• Margaretta Gilboy at Carson/van Straaten

  published September 25, 2008

  In many ways, magic realism anticipates conceptual realism, even though it's not actually an early form of the cutting-edge style. Boulder has... More >>

• Sandra Phillips proves once again that bigger is not always better with Three on Fire

  published September 25, 2008

  Making the most with the least is a specialty of Sandra Phillips, owner of her namesake gallery on Santa Fe, which opened five years ago. A... More >>

• Steven Turner leaves Historic Denver behind

  published September 18, 2008

  Last week, the Colorado Historical Society announced that Steven Turner will become the director of the State Historical Fund. That... More >>

• William Stockman focuses on the figure at Ironton Studios

  published September 18, 2008

  Over the last quarter-century, old-fashioned representational imagery has supplanted abstraction, which had dominated most of the cutting-edge... More >>

• Capsule reviews of current exhibits

  published September 11, 2008

  Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and... More >>

• Mark Travis: A Memorial Exhibit at Space Gallery

  published September 11, 2008

  The death last winter of Mark Travis, a contemporary artist who made... More >>

• The late Dale Chisman put Denver in the picture

  published September 11, 2008

  On September 3, I made my way to the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver as I've done so many times since the new building opened last year. But... More >>

• Now Showing

  published September 4, 2008

  About Us... et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us..., put together by freelance... More >>

• The Electric Fountain at City Park

  published September 4, 2008

  I'm a political junkie, so having the Democratic National Convention here was a treat. And since Denver strategically spiffed up over the last... More >>

• Christo and Jeanne-Claude have Denver wrapped up

  published September 4, 2008

  Ever since the Denver Art Museum unleashed the Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building in 2006, the rest of the top galleries... More >>

• Now Showing

  published August 28, 2008

  About Us... et al. In the West Gallery at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is About Us..., put together by freelance... More >>

• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center welcomes a new director

  published August 28, 2008

  Last week, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center concluded its nearly year-long search for a new director by hiring Sam Gappmayer... More >>