Luis Jimenez

Thirty years in, these Best of Denver winners are still the best in town

Reader: Let's get rid of that disgusting zombie horse

Denver Broncos and "Mustang" -- a match made in hell

As we head into the Super Bowl, most Broncos fans are still smarting from our defeat by the Ravens, who are playing in our place. And we're asking ourselves, "What do we need to get over the hump next year?" Another running back? Sure, that'd be good. Maybe some help in the secondary, and another pa ... More >>

An ode to DIA's beleaguered blue horse

See also: After five years, it might be time for "Mustang" to mosey on

Reader: Visitors to Denver think "Mustang" cheers on the Broncos!

"Mustang," Luis Jimenez's giant blue horse with the glowing red eyes, was installed outside of Denver International Airport on February 11, 2008. Neigh-sayers started complaining almost immediately, demanding that the city put the horse out to pasture. But city officials responded that according to ... More >>

DIA conspiracy theorists "continually surprise and delight us," says airport spokeswoman

Reader: Mustang deserves to be messed with...and make a mess

Does a bear shit outside the woods? That question was answered by the pranksters who placed a pile of blue poo under "I See What You Mean," better known as the Big Blue Bear, which stands outside the Colorado Convention Center. That prank inspired another former Westword art critic Renna Shesso to ... More >>

Big Blue Bear's crap inspires art critic to horse around with DIA's Blue Mustang

Does a bear shit in the woods -- and outside a convention center? That question was answered when pranksters placed a pile of blue poo under "I See What You Mean," the Lawrence Argent sculpture that's known as the Big Blue Bear. Inspired, one critic turned her eyes to DIA's "Mustang," and his hindqu ... More >>

Reader: If a bear shits in the woods, what would "Mustang" do?

Sometime this weekend, a prankster added a new element to "I See What You Mean," the sculpture outside the Colorado Convention Center. Suddenly, the Big Blue Bear had taken a big blue dump. And one good turn definitely deserves another.

"Mustang:" Is DIA's devil horse the ugliest public art in the world?

​"Mustang" is ready for its close-up -- but don't get too close to the genital area of Luis Jiménez's giant horse, as The Colbert Report did in its hilarious piece on all the phallic symbolism at Denver International Airport. And Blucifer also just made Travel Leisure's list of the "World's ... More >>

Reader: Curt Fentress wasn't horsing around when he built the big top

A​Suspicions confirmed! At last night's town hall meeting on the art program at Denver International Airport, consultants who'd interviewed hundreds of DIA travelers, and studied 1,600 online surveys, revealed that the most loved -- and loathed -- piece of art at DIA is Luis Jimenez's "Mustang ... More >>

Just say neigh! Town hall on airport art master plan tomorrow

"Mustang," by Luis Jimenez​Quit horsing around! It's time to come clean about how you feel about the public art at Denver International Airport, a collection that includes everything from Gary Sweeney's beloved "America, Why I Love Her" to the loved, and loathed, "Mustang," aka Blucifer, the ... More >>

Blue Mustang is DIA's most famous artwork, but there are other pieces to love... or hate

​"Mustang," Luis Jimenez's killer horse at Denver International Airport, just placed third in a recent survey of the country's most bizarre public art. But it definitely ranks first in the hearts and minds of Denver residents, who either really love or really, really hate the sculpture.

New World Order! Conspiracy theories keep landing at Denver International Airport

If these walls could talk. Barack Obama left town yesterday without going anywhere near Denver International Airport. After barely three hours on the ground in Denver, which was part of a three-state Western swing, the President headed back to Washington, D.C., without even a drive-by tour of the ... More >>

Foray on 420: Five public works to trip out on while stoned

​Ah, life's eternal questions, like "Why do words sounds so weird if you say them a bunch of times in a row?" and "What if, like, when you looked in the mirror you were seeing the real you looking at the fake you and you're the fake you" and "Wait, what?" -- all of which suddenly become vastly ... More >>

Denver Does Denver: Find out Who's Doing Who

Denver Does Denver sounds more salacious than it is -- though we're sure there's a sexualized metaphor in there somewhere that was intended. If you haven't heard about it, Denver Does Denver, slated to take place tomorrow night at the Meadowlark, is a rad little show put together by the fine peeps a ... More >>

Denver International Airport artworks that fly -- and terrify

​Denver International Airport has thirty pieces of art in its permanent collection, not including "Mountain Mirage," which will soon disappear entirely, and Anubis, the Tut-touting statue at DIA until late this month. Too bad it won't be around longer: I like having the God of the Underworld ... More >>

USA Today takes off on Anubis and aliens at DIA

​Thanks to the Anubis statue now standing guard outside Denver International Airport, all those conspiracy theories about DIA have taken off again -- and they've landed the airport smack-dab in today's edition of USA Today. "Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian go ... More >>

Denver International Airport's Egyptian god of death claims first victim

​Denver International Airport has already inspired a planeload of conspiracy theories -- that it's built on an Indian graveyard, that aliens live in tunnels below the terminal, that it's set up to become a concentration camp for Denver citizens. The long-delayed installation of Luis Jimenez's ... More >>

2009 Year in Review: When the lows were lower and the highs were really, really high

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 Must ... More >>

Verse comes to worse at Mile Haiku

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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

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 art ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 10 edition

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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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Librarians head to Denver for a quiet riot

Conspiracy to Have Fun

Well, I'll See a Horse's Ass!

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

Conspiracy to Have Fun

Conspiracy to Have Fun

Mystery of the Missing Horse

Haunted Sculpture Arrives at DIA. Flyers, Rejoice!

Project Runway’s Elisa: Daughter of Sculptor Luis Jimenez

Pale Rider

Luis Jimenez’s controversial “Mustang” rides on.

Decades and 30x30

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

The Art of the Deal

Pony Up

The state of the art in Denver.

Mexican Combos

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

Border Line

Gallery tackles edgy vision

Goodbye, Columbus

Thrills for the week

Horse Sense

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