Email Author Michael Paglia

2008 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Dale Chisman

  published May 22, 2008

  Dale Chisman is an exceptional figure in Denver's art world, not simply because he's one of the region's most talented abstract painters, but... More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 15, 2008

  Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Editions. In the front spaces at Sandy Carson, there's a whimsical yet intelligent show... More >>

• Edge and Spark

  published May 15, 2008

  In the past few years, Denver's art world has reached such a critical mass that many of our marvelous alternative spaces have been lost in the... More >>

• Get Real

  published May 15, 2008

  The development of abstract painting a hundred years ago can be easily explained by the rise of photography fifty years before that. Since... More >>

• Three in One

  published May 8, 2008

  Art offerings along Santa Fe Drive are uneven, at best, but a few places always seem to have something worth looking at. There's the More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 8, 2008

  Dale Chisman. Since Dale Chisman is among the greatest abstract painters who ever plied their trade in Colorado, this show is... More >>

• Sandy Carson Gallery

  published May 8, 2008

  Sandy Carson Gallery is featuring two sculpture shows in the front and a large print show in the back — the latter being a late addition... More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 1, 2008

  Berghaus, Douglas and Riverhouse Press. In the front spaces at Sandy Carson, there's a whimsical yet intelligent show... More >>

• “Cowboy Singing”

  published May 1, 2008

  Surely the biggest art news last week was the joint acquisition by the Denver Art Museum and the Anschutz Collection of "Cowboy Singing"... More >>

• From Gee’s Bend to the Mennonites

  published May 1, 2008

  When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing about quilts, he rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, please, you've seen one, you've seen them all."... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 24, 2008

  Inspiring Impressionism. This is hardly your run-of-the-mill effort in which a cavalcade of big-name European artists are represented by... More >>

• Varied Voices

  published April 24, 2008

  The Denver Art Museum's outlandish Hamilton Building (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, More >>

• Jeff Starr: The Wrath of Grapes

  published April 24, 2008

  When two different groups of people, one made up mostly of artists, the other comprising collectors and donors, began to separately brainstorm... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 17, 2008

  Clyfford Still Unveiled. A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of... More >>

• Jasper de Beijer

  published April 17, 2008

  As demonstrated by shows at Robischon and the Center for Visual Art, conceptual photography has come on strong in recent years, and in the... More >>

• Freeze Frames

  published April 17, 2008

  Denver's Month of Photography ended weeks ago, but many of the exhibits are still up and running. So maybe the highly successful March event... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 10, 2008

  George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George... More >>

• Plus Gallery

  published April 10, 2008

  There's a lot going on at Plus Gallery (2350 Lawrence Street, 303-296-0927, www.plusgallery.com),... More >>

• Mass Media

  published April 10, 2008

  There's been so much going on in the Denver art world that we reached a critical mass of activity during the last month or so, especially... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 3, 2008

  George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George... More >>

• Desire in a Gypsy Cloak

  published April 3, 2008

  Monroe Hodder really gets around. In the past twenty years she's lived in New York, San Francisco, Rome and — get this — Almaty,... More >>

• In Passing

  published April 3, 2008

  Over the years, I've often seen the truth in the old saying "One person can make a difference." Often it's for the good — for instance,... More >>

• Now Showing

  published March 27, 2008

  George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George... More >>

• Now Showing

  published March 20, 2008

  George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George... More >>

• The Photography of Huang Yan|Body Art: New Photography From China

  published March 20, 2008

  With all the excitement in this country about Chinese contemporary art, the fact that China is a police state is often forgotten. Leave it to... More >>