Things are bound to get haute tonight at the Denver Art Museum's annual Design After Dark bash. "Bespoke" will be the theme of the stylish party, which is put on by the DAM's Design Council; the word describes a men's fashion counterpart to haute couture. The concept of tailored, custom-made... More >>

The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gave 350 blank wooden hearts to local artists and non-artist community members with a flair for design, and asked them to create individual pieces of art for their silent auction tonight. The project illustrates an exploration into creativity, says... More >>

Of all of the holidays to be alone, Valentine's Day can be the suckiest. But the heartbroken, the bitter and the angry are all welcome to celebrate in anti-V-Day fashion at tonight's Scorned Lover's Art and Show and Event at the Art Salon. The art space -- which will be showing pieces curated... More >>

The Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has long been held high in the estimation of modern female artists; imagined today as a feminist way before her time (she painted in the first half of the seventeenth century), we actually don't know that much about who she really was. But there... More >>

Bunky Echo-Hawk is a modern Renaissance Indian -- an artist, activist, poet, teacher and member of the Pawnee and Yakama nations who lives very much in the present while incorporating both the tenets and the sorrows of American Indian tradition into a contemporary message. Pierced, tattooed and... More >>

Dan Jacobs, director of the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, has endeavored to present shows that document the efforts of local artists both historic and contemporary. Being on the DU campus in the School of Art and Art History, Jacobs has a built-in roster from which to... More >>

Though the Denver Art Museum has collected photos for decades, it didn't launch a proper photography department until 2008, when Eric Paddock was named curator. Since then, Paddock has presented one noteworthy show after another, most of them showcasing pieces in the DAM's impressive collection... More >>

The O'Sullivan Art Gallery at Regis University has been presenting shows for years, and a frequent theme is the Latino/Latina experience. This focus dovetails perfectly with the institution's Jesuit underpinnings, since Hispanic culture in the Southwest is predominantly Roman Catholic. But that... More >>

With the forced sentiments of love looming in the air before Valentine's Day inevitably descends upon us, some may choose to escape the cheesy romantic comedies and societal pressures by examining l'amour from an artistic standpoint. You can do this at Zip 37 Gallery's Lovesick, a multimedia... More >>

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 Committee, headed up by Julie Segraves. Two decades ago, when no one was looking at contemporary art in China -- not even the Chinese -- Segraves... More >>

Artists from the metro area and across the nation will all be represented in Light Supply, a new offering opening today at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, which joins other local museums (the spring exhibit Blink! at the DAM and the MCA’s current show, Another Victory Over the Sun) in... More >>

Founded in 1982 by Rabbi Stanley Wagner and Carol and Larry A. Mizel, the Mizel Museum is a place where Judaism in Denver intersects with the rest of the world. In its 25 years of existence, the museum has hosted many important exhibits of global concern, including 100 Years of Art in Israel,... More >>

The sad-eyed ladies of tattoo artist and painter Sandi Calistro have a compelling way of staring you down, whether they're inked into the skin or slapped on a wall. Calistro says they're born from the "heartbreaking experiences" we've all been through -- which explains why they stay with you... More >>

Smartphones changed the way we take and look at pictures almost overnight: The photographs they give us are in-the-moment, often grainy or unfocused, and given up completely to fancy, almost part of a genre all its own. It's also evolved to the point that images in the smartphone spirit don't... More >>

It all started when the polar bear refused to disappear. Artist Karl Krueger had entered his giant snow, wood and wire sculpture in the 2009 Dummy Demolition so that it could be launched off the slope at Golden Peak -- but the bear survived unscathed. After that, Vail Village put the sculpture... More >>

The idea that all significant art in America is made on the East Coast held sway for a long time. But over the last twenty years -- and increasingly in the past few years -- people in the know have promoted the concept that the West, including Colorado, is an alternative capital of American... More >>

During the slave trade, a ship's route typically consisted of three legs: from Europe to Africa to trade goods for kidnapped Africans, from Africa to the Americas to trade the slaves for raw materials, and back to Europe to repeat the process. The most atrocious of these journeys, the one... More >>

Photographer Lisa Law is the real deal, a hippie from the Sixties who's still flying the freak flag down in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she now resides. Back in the day, Law was on the front lines at Woodstock, where she shot images behind the scenes while also serving up mush to thousands as a... More >>

Among the dozens of galleries, hundreds of shows and twelve packed First Fridays in the Art District on Santa Fe in 2011, it's inevitable that arts lovers missed something spectacular. "There are so many events that go on, and we wanted to give some recognition for different galleries," notes... More >>

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 current century, some artists persist in creating old-fashioned representational depictions of the human figure. A secret to the success of these... More >>

Physics, especially the study of movement, is always the focus of Robert Mangold's abstract and kinetic sculptures. The nationally renowned sculptor's career stretches over five decades, and for most of that time, he's been working right here in Denver. That makes the over-the-top exhibit Time,... More >>

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 was set in Denver. That makes Ed Ruscha: On the Road, at the Denver Art Museum, a must-see show for many. For this body of work, the West Coast-based Ruscha... More >>

Forget everything you know about bass music for a minute and picture this: an event at an art gallery -- a light-and-sound gallery, really -- with Qigong, aura healings and meditation, as well as a dose of dubstep, breaks and drum-and-bass. What you have is Tao of Bass, an ongoing night hosted... More >>

Abstract-expressionist master Clyfford Still had no association with Denver during his lifetime, but now that he's dead, he has become a big mover in the city's cultural life. Still's will dictated that his artwork could go to any American city that would build a museum to house it. In 2004,... More >>

In the 1920s, the Denver Art Museum became one of the first art institutions in the world to collect American Indian material not be-cause of some historic or scientific interest, but because of its undeniable aesthetic qualities. Nearly ninety years later, the DAM has one of the largest and... More >>