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2012 Stories by Michael Paglia

• Now Showing

  published May 24, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist.... More >>

• Kevin Curry's reassembled works get the point across at Rule

  published May 24, 2012

  Kevin Curry: Between Chaos and Order is a smart-looking solo at Rule Gallery that's dominated by conceptual abstractions which... More >>

• Punk Then and Now

  published May 3, 2012

  The local art scene has been obsessed with the counterculture lately as our longstanding fascination with beatniks has been joined by a nascent... More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 17, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Abstract art and sculpture blend beautifully at Havu and Z

  published May 17, 2012

  Contemporary abstraction is a well-developed scene in Colorado, with roots that go back to the 1930s, and four of the most important artists... More >>

• Now Showing

  published May 10, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Ice Cube highlights the work of Marius Lehene and Ray Tomasso

  published May 10, 2012

  There are a lot of great exhibition spaces around town, but I'm always struck by how good shows look at Ice Cube Gallery, even though it's the... More >>

• Smear Factor

  published April 19, 2012

  Simon Zalkind, curator at the Singer Gallery in the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, is one of many local exhibition organizers who are saluting... More >>

• People Pleasers

  published April 26, 2012

  Among its many interests, the Royal Bank of Canada operates RBC Wealth Management, which has established an art collection made up of some 400... More >>

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  Contemporary art with a Western edge fills Robischon

  published May 3, 2012

  The American West as a topic first appeared on the stage of international consciousness in the late nineteenth century, when painters and... More >>

• Road Warriors

  published April 5, 2012

  More than fifty years after On the Road was released, Jack Kerouac still has a lot of local followers, in part because some of the novel... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ten shows the History Colorado Center should have opened with

  published Apr 26, 2012

  The brand new History Colorado Center opens on Saturday. Last week, in my column about the wonderfully-designed museum, I pointed out how poor the two debut shows, Colorado Stories and Destination Col... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 26, 2012

  Batura, Winograde, Kunkel, Emrich. Though the current shows at Robischon are a quartet of solos — Stephen... More >>

• Persistent Terrain is a solo that works better as a duet

  published April 26, 2012

  It's a funny thing about the exhibition business: Sometimes multiple solos are presented at the same venue that work in concert with one... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 19, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• The new History Colorado Center is an architectural triumph

  published April 19, 2012

  The new History Colorado Center, at the corner of 12th Avenue and Broadway, is clearly the most accomplished, developed and significant... More >>

• Strange People

  published March 29, 2012

  Considering the rise of abstraction at the beginning of the last century, it's interesting to note that even now, more than a decade into the... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 12, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin honors the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum

  published April 12, 2012

  Simon Zalkind, curator of the Mizel Center's Singer Gallery (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, More >>

• Moving Experience

  published March 29, 2012

  Physics, especially the study of movement, is always the focus of Robert Mangold's abstract and kinetic sculptures. The nationally renowned... More >>

• Now Showing

  published April 5, 2012

  Gary Emrich. Though paintings and sculptures are the stock-in-trade of its Modern and Contemporary department, the Denver Art Museum... More >>

• Xi Zhang and Out Figured shows provide strong counter-currents to abstraction

  published April 5, 2012

  In the annals of the Denver art world, the 2011-2012 season will go down as the year of Clyfford Still. The Clyfford Still Museum opened in... More >>

• Now Showing

  published March 22, 2012

  Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great... More >>

• Standout shows at Pirate and Edge call attention to the corner of 37th and Navajo

  published March 22, 2012

  There are usually interesting shows on view near the corner of 37th Avenue and Navajo Street, but rarely as interesting as those on view at two... More >>

• China Times

  published March 8, 2012

  Believe it or not, Denver has long been a center for the appreciation of art from China, and that has a lot to do with the Asian Art Coordinating... More >>