Subject: Luis Jimenez

• The Art of the Deal

  June 14, 2006

• Haunted Sculpture Arrives at DIA. Flyers, Rejoice!

  February 12, 2008

• Project Runway’s Elisa: Daughter of Sculptor Luis Jimenez

  February 12, 2008

• Mystery of the Missing Horse

  May 12, 2008

• Delegating Denver #48 of 56: Texas

  June 17, 2008

• Shaping Up

  June 18, 1998

• Hot off the Presses

  Printed matter papers the walls at the William Havu Gallery.

  September 21, 2000

• Bat'leth not the only creative weapon for would-be criminals

  Usually when someone wants to commit armed robbery, he'll bring along a weapon that combines stealth, convenience and anonymity -- a small gun, for instance. Not so one enterprising Colorado Springs man, who this week brazenly robbed one area 7-Eleven store (and tried to knock over a second) armed only with a bat'leth, broadsword bringer of pain and standard weapon of choice for many an honorable Klingon. The bat'leth bandit, as he's quickly become known, broke the warrior's code by using the

  February 6, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: high-flying art at DIA

  The debate took off fast last week over Luis Jimenez's "Mustang," otherwise known as "DIA's Heinous Blue Mustang," which stands outside Denver International Airport. (Read more in this Off Limits report, as well as at www.byebyebluemustang, the site started by local realtor Rachel Hultin.) But in all the hot discussion over the horse, it's easy to overlook some of the great art that Denver's one-percent-for-art program got us at the airport. There are Gary Sweeney's "America: Why I Love Her"

  February 6, 2009

• DIA's promo photo kicks ass of all other airport promo photos

  Courtesy of DIASee the slideshow of DIA's promo-photo ass-kicking here. Denver International Airport's giant blue "Mustang" sculpture -- and the controversy surrounding it -- has gone national. Public debate sparked by local realtor Rachel Hultin's Facebook group "DIA's Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go" -- a development first reported by Westword -- has spread across news outlets and this weekend reached the pages of the Wall Street Journal. One of the most interesting parts of the WSJ arti

  February 10, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 10 edition

  In case you're curious... Today in Cafe Society: • From Rock to Riesling: Tool Frontman on a Different Kind of Tour. • No Beach, But At Least Arvada Has Restaurant Blu and C-Level. • Microbrewing history gets its own photo book. Today in Backbeat Online: • Breathe Carolina Premiers New Video, Tours Until the End of Time. • Silver Wave Records Takes Home Another Grammy. • Shockingly, the Fray Captures the Top Spot at Twist & Shout. • Blinding Flashes of Light (and John Common).

  February 10, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: welcome to the Mile Haiku City

  In desperate times, the media are desperate for an uplifting story -- or at least a fun one. And so Luis Jimenez's "Mustang" has become our own Hudson River miracle landing. It was just two weeks ago that I got the invite to join the nascent Facebook group started by local realtor Rachel Hultin that's devoted to getting rid of the "heinous blue horse" at DIA, and writing haikus to support that position. We wrote about it the following day, and the next thing we knew, it was all over local radi

  February 11, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Pony up for the Arts

  Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award to Noel Congdon. The event, which is free, with doors opening at 5:30 and the ceremony starting at 6:30, promises to be a celebration of some of this town's real cultural icons. But you know what woul

  February 18, 2009

• Big blue bear artist Lawrence Argent tells critics to lay off the big blue mustang

  With the ongoing controversy over the the late Luis Jimenez's deadly "Mustang" sculpture at Denver International Airport getting bluer and veiny-er with each passing day, we decided to call up another artist (a live one) who has also been on the receiving end of airport-art criticism: Denver artist Lawrence Argent. While his big blue bear - officially titled "I See What You Mean" - has become a beloved icon for city boosters and peeping toms alike, the big red rabbit sculpture he is creating

  February 20, 2009

• Pale Rider

  August 30, 2007

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  June 12, 2008

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  June 12, 2008

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  August 21, 2008

• After vegan requests LVTOFU license plate, the DMV reveals its dirty mind

  April 9, 2009

• Artist behind Denver's Big Blue Bear has Californians seeing red

  February 19, 2009

• Librarians head to Denver for a quiet riot

  January 29, 2009

• Dana Perino talks for the president; her dad talks for the neighborhood

  November 27, 2008

• A miniature "National Velvet" gets a rise out of its owners

  April 16, 2009

• Go Figure

  Denver's last dance for the '90s.

  May 8, 2003

• Well, I'll See a Horse's Ass!

  In hindsight, "Mustang" is a real welcome to Denver.

  June 19, 2008

• Decades and 30x30

  After thirty years, Denver owes Robischon Gallery a lot of love.

  February 8, 2007

• Pony Up

  The state of the art in Denver.

  October 20, 2005

• Off Limits

  This place is a zoo!

  January 15, 2004

• Mexican Combos

  Mexico's influence is on display at the CVA and the Museo.

  September 18, 2003

• Border Line

  Gallery tackles edgy vision

  September 4, 2003

• Joy in Mudville

  Bright spots in a down-and-dirty campaign season.

  May 15, 2003

• Goodbye, Columbus

  May 14, 1998

• Thrills for the week

  October 9, 1997

• Horse Sense

  March 20, 1997

• LOST AND FOUND

  January 3, 1996

• AGONY AND ECSTASY

  October 18, 1995

• A SITE FOR SORE EYESFLYING BLIND THE ART AT DIA IS MOSTLY DOA.

  March 8, 1995

• Verse comes to worse at Mile Haiku

  April 30, 2009

• Wake Up Call: The week ahead -- when worse comes to verse

  Before we were panicked about swine flu and twisted by torture-memo leaks, we were terrified by the Devil Horse, Luis Jimenez's killer sculpture that stands guard outside Denver International Airport, its red eyes shooting deadly lasers at unsuspecting passersby. Or are those glowing orbs actually illuminating this town's deep well of creativity? Because just three short months ago, when realtor Rachel Hultin started a Facebook page for horse haters, she asked them to write not just screeds, b

  April 27, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: High on the Mile Haiku City

  Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night's Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared as one by one, reluctant poets stood to read their haikus, their limericks, their sonnets and free verse dedicated to the deadly steed -- many of them focusing on the sculpture's truly scary hindquart

  April 28, 2009

• An impassioned defense of DIA's blue "Mustang" from hell

  Cool art -- or one of the four horses of the apocalypse? Plenty of folks in these parts despise and/or are terrified by "Mustang," the demonic sculpture at Denver International Airport that managed to kill its creator, Luis Jiménez . Rachel Hultin's Facebook page, entitled "DIA's Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go," neatly encapsulates negative views about the piece, which has been valued at $2 million -- proof that money is the root of all evil. But not everyone wants to send this horse to th

  June 17, 2009