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MCA Denver

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    April 25, 2012

    Noah Van Sciver explores the final frontier at StarFest 2012

    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia and MCA Denver. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.) Last week ... More >>

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    April 23, 2012

    Reader: Alt-sex marks the spot in the Mile High Club city

    Feminism & Co. sells out at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; the biggest swingers' outfit in the country, Scarlet Ranch, now occupies the former Northwoods Inn. Alt-sex marks the spot in this city -- which, by dint of altitude alone, also happens to be the easiest urban spot in the country to ... More >>

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    April 10, 2012

    Reader: To Sir Noah Van Sciver, with love

    Every week, Noah Van Sciver serves up both art and insight into local bands in 4 Questions, his comic. But occasionally we send him out to paint the entire town, as he did for the recent opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Noah Van Sciver goes punk at MCA Denver

    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 16, 2012

    Now Showing

    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>

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    February 9, 2012

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    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>

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    February 2, 2012

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    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>

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    January 26, 2012

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    Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Have a crap-tastic evening of cheap Christmas crafting at the Museum of Contemporary Art tonight

    ​If you need gifts for your friends and relatives and you've got no Cheddar to spare, then the Cheap Christmas Crapfare at the Museum of Contemporary Art is the place for you tonight. At the Crapfare, which is part of MCA Denver's "Black Sheep Fridays," you'll learn how to make the crappies ... More >>

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    August 18, 2011

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    ​If you need gifts for your friends and relatives and you've got no Cheddar to spare, then the Cheap Christmas Crapfare at the Museum of Contemporary Art is the place for you tonight. At the Crapfare, which is part of MCA Denver's "Black Sheep Fridays," you'll learn how to make the crappies ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Colorado Cocktail Contest wraps up tonight

    ​What does Colorado taste like? We'll finally know tonight, as the ten finalists in the Colorado Cocktail Contest pour out their creations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany Street. The festivities run from 5 to 9 p.m. and admission is $40 (industry discounts are available) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Colorado Cocktail Project will leave you shaken, possibly stirred

    ​Café Society's obsession with the quest for a Colorado cocktail dates back to the day when Rich Grant of Visit Denver got a call from a reporter for a national magazine who was looking for the quintessential Colorado drink to include in a story about landmark libations. But while some towns ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    First Friday: Seven things to do and see on the artwalk

    ​With blue skies predicted for the next few days, there ain't no way First Friday won't be sprouting artwalkers like dandelions. Spring is here, the art is good and the art districts are alive with the breath of things to come. Here are a few of our First Friday picks.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Preview: RedLine remembers Dale Chisman

    Catalogue cover art, "Dale Chisman in Retrospect"​ Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado -- a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But Chisman wasn't just a great artist. He was also a gr ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 16, 2010

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    Catalogue cover art, "Dale Chisman in Retrospect"​ Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado -- a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But Chisman wasn't just a great artist. He was also a gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    PlatteForum gets a sizable grant to study graffiti

    ​It's a common complaint about art: "I don't get it." The French theorist Nicolas Bourriaud explored that idea back in 1996 -- how art can often be so removed from the everyday human experience, cordoned off in museums and behind velvet ropes, that it becomes something obscure, something elite ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Knives, jokes and hunks of meat fly at MCA Denver's bison-butchering bash

    Teal NippPete Marczyk (left) and Jimmy Cross meat the audience.​It wasn't bloody, it wasn't smelly and it didn't attract flies. But then, the bison had already been slaughtered and quartered at a Nebraska ranch, separated from its head, hide and organs and hung up to age for two weeks. Anythi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    50top chefs plan to get medieval on a bison at MCA Denver

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    Cave Woman

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 26, 2010

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 19, 2010

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    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 12, 2010

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2010

    Monster Mash-Up

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    April 29, 2010

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 22, 2010

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    January 28, 2010

    New Look

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    December 24, 2009

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    December 10, 2009

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    December 3, 2009

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    November 26, 2009

    Now Showing

    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    November 5, 2009

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    The Buffalo Boys prepare to meet the beast at MCA Denver.​Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it," says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owne ... More >>

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    August 27, 2009

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    August 20, 2009

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    August 13, 2009

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    July 30, 2009

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    June 25, 2009

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    June 11, 2009

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    April 9, 2009

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    April 2, 2009

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    March 16, 2009

    Layoffs at the Lab and MCA: Job losses in the wake of Adam Lerner appointment

    MCA Denver. Mark Falcone, head of the board at MCA Denver and the founder, former board chairman and current boardmember of the Lab at Belmar, is apparently running both not-for-profit institutions as though they were his own private business interests -- which they are not. With the announcement t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Adam Lerner's start gets dumber: Cartoon labrador mars photo of MCA's building

    A photo-illustration from MCA Denver's website. Ever since word leaked out that Adam Lerner, who's guided the Belmar Lab, would replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver, many art-scene observers (me included) were concerned that he would bring his hip geegaws and trendy gimcracks t ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 26, 2009

    Art in the Cabinet

    A photo-illustration from MCA Denver's website. Ever since word leaked out that Adam Lerner, who's guided the Belmar Lab, would replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver, many art-scene observers (me included) were concerned that he would bring his hip geegaws and trendy gimcracks t ... More >>

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    February 12, 2009

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    February 5, 2009

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    January 29, 2009

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    January 29, 2009

    Patty Ortiz leaves the Museo de las Americas

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    January 22, 2009

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    December 4, 2008

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    May 1, 2008

    Quiet Death

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