Street Art

Cheba Hut downtown has new murals by Gamma Acosta

Cheba Hut is much more than a pot-based joke. The small chain of "toasted" sub shops may be based in Tempe, Arizona, but it definitely appreciates local customers, local produce and local beers -- the Cheba Hut in downtown Denver has twenty Colorado beers on tap. And now it also has two murals by Lo ... More >>

100 Colorado Creatives: The Ladies Fancywork Society

#100: The Ladies Fancywork Society The Ladies Fancywork Society -- a somewhat anonymous collective of crafty women -- has been delighting Denver for a half-dozen years, working covertly in the dark of night to create yarnbombed installations that sprout out of nowhere in the strangest of places. The ... More >>

The arts in Denver: Ten people to watch in 2013

The Denver Art Museum was on a roll in 2012 and it isn't slowing down in the new year, with exhibits showcasing Georgia O'Keeffe and Nick Cave's Soundsuits on their way. At MCA Denver, the Ladies Fancywork Society will soon have its day in the sun its own exhibition. The folks at the Denver County F ... More >>

Unseen Denver: Fifteen photos of secret Mile High street art

One of our favorite local websites is Unseen Denver, which describes itself as a story of "gritty love between my hometown and the people who live within her." That translates visually to street-art images that even many longtime locals may never have seen before -- some elaborate, some simple, all ... More >>

Twenty most memorable Denver graffiti and street art photos on Instagram

Art is all around us. For proof, look no further than the Denver graffiti category on Instagram, which features hundreds of shots in which buildings, railroad cars and plenty more are transformed into impromptu canvases. Below, see twenty that caught our eye -- and be sure to click on the credit to ... More >>

Harrison Nealey on Beauty Is, graffiti and the Magnet Mafia

His Magnet Mafia partner may have moved to San Francisco, but Harrison Nealey's sticking with Denver. He's been working on commissioned sculptures for artists at Demiurge, and that inspired him to put together Beauty Is, a solo show that opens Friday, September 28, at Division West. We recently cau ... More >>

Live spray-painting event opens Christian Usera show at Cash From Clutter tomorrow

Before artist Christian Usera can paint, he has to get his mind straight -- usually he goes into a meditative state before he starts. The end result combines a mixture of mediums (watercolor, tempera, spray paints, acrylic, to name a few) into an emotional, dreamy composition. He knows his creative ... More >>

Navajo Street Art District shines during Summer Solstice Celebration

On such a lovely, long, almost-summer day, you should be out under the sun and the stars. The additional promise of visual surprises behind every wide-open door awaits at the Summer Solstice Celebration in the Navajo Street Art District, which runs Saturday, June 16 from noon to 9 p.m. This harmon ... More >>

So-Gnar and CoalaTree team up with Michal Menert for Shredded Beats: Japan

Pat Milbery wears many hats (and helmets), but professional musician is not one of them. That doesn't deter him from being curious about the art form, however, and pushing that interest into the unknown. Over the winter, Milbery teamed up with Pretty Lights Music artist Michal Menert and Colorado-lo ... More >>

Ladies Fancywork Society members open Lowbrow on Broadway

Even if you haven't read about the Ladies Fancywork Society, you've likely seen their fancywork -- known as "yarn bombs" -- around town. LFS often works in the dead of night, wrapping random, urban objects in a comforting knit sweater, giving the pedestrian telephone pole or bike rack an intimate, a ... More >>

Spray It Loud

Vertigo's show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, transfers street art to the gallery

The name for Vertigo's new show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, seems like a commentary on the stratification of rural culture, but it's not. "The designer who put together the card advertisement put the photo of the cowboy on the left, and she thought that was the perfect name for the show," says featu ... More >>

David Choe, a street artist worth $200 million in Facebook stock, made his mark on Denver

The newly painted wall outside the Denver Performing Arts Complex looks like a million bucks. Make that $200 million. Because that's what graffiti artist David Choe stands to make in Facebook's public offering: When the street artist did a piece for Facebook headquarters years ago, he took his pay i ... More >>

Impossible Winterbourne's unsanctioned public art goes steampunk

Photo by Impossible WinterbourneSteamBot, outside Bicycle Cafe​The Impossible Winterbourne, a Denver artist, doesn't consider himself a "street artist" because his art isn't limited to the streets. But like street artists, Winterbourne's installations appear quietly, waiting to be noticed. He' ... More >>

David Choe finishes Terminal Kings, donates murals to city

After Los Angeles-based graffiti artist David Choe finished his murals for Denver International Airport's Terminal Kings project, he did what any street artist would do: He went and found a blank wall in the city where he could leave his mark. That wall happened to be at 13th and Champa streets, on ... More >>

Reader: Terminal Kings may be world-class, but where are world-class local artists?

Terminal Kings is taking off at City Hall, where three world-class street artists -- Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff -- are creating giant murals that will be displayed at Denver International Airport over the next five years, as the South Terminal project gets under way. Over the next ten days ... More >>

Writing on the Wall

Gamma Acosta on Street Cred, graffiti and the importance of street art

The last time we talked to Longmont artist Gamma Acosta, he quietly reminded us that there's redemption in street art, and many of the kids who come out of the tagging culture, spray cans in hand, have talent that can raise them above the low-rent materials of the street. That was seven years ag ... More >>

Paint The Town Red

Portishead's Geoff Barrow on the Silver Apples and Banksy

Reader: Matt Scobey is so cool...or so lame?

​One of the goals of art is to get people talking, and Matt Scobey's Not for Sale: Denver project has certainly accomplished that goal. Scobey has been putting art in unexpected places around town, offering clues to the locations on the web. Those who find the works can appreciate them on-sit ... More >>

Uni and Square set the street-art scene at UnseenDenver's fundraiser for Arts Street

Street art is usually a fly-by-night phenomena, one that the artists prefer no one -- especially the police -- witness. Just ask the Knapper twins, the subjects of this week's Westword cover story. But Denver has recently taken to the idea of live street-art events. And last Friday night, UnseenDenv ... More >>

Buzz Kill: The Knapper twins' favorite street artists

Corey and Jesse Knapper, a pair of art-school students who were arrested for pasting massive posters on the sides of buildings, are the focus of "Buzz Kill," this week's cover story. Some people call their work vandalism, some call it art, some call it both. Their graphic poster art is reminiscent ... More >>

A gang of cartoon characters landed these students in trouble

Slide show: Meet the Slang Gang

Drug Task Force goes after art school students for Slang Gang posters

Saul Gud turns into a Buzz Kill for RMCAD students

R-U Engaged and the case of the mysterious disappearing yarn bombs

Have you seen me?​We told you about the yarn bombs across Boulder B-Cycle stations. Now, R-U-Engaged, who was planning on turning the large-scale yarn art into blankets for charity, can't find the brightly colored cozies. It is like they just disappeared into the night. "Having stuff disappea ... More >>

Street artist Theo on Banksy, Jack Kerouac and running from the cops

Theo's Kerouac stencil, looking pensive.​If he were around today, it's pretty certain that Neal Cassady, immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, would appreciate what the street artist Theo has been up to lately. Cassady was a born rabble-rouser, after all, and in more way ... More >>

Shock and AWE

Taggers and artists: Either way, graffiti doesn't deserve a felony

Banksy: The John Dillinger of street artists.​Far more often than is at all warranted, a bill proposing to "crack down" on graffiti -- like the one shot down in committee by the state legislator yesterday -- comes up in some form of government, promising to eradicate the scourge of people scri ... More >>

Street Art: Don't Stop Love

​ This doctored stop sign is remarkable partly in that it's persevered, untouched, for quite a long time -- most suitably, in a neighborhood where people of every faith and stripe live side by side: Africans from across the Dark Continent, South Asians, Russians, retirees, young singles, Musli ... More >>

Learn about Banksy, David Foster Wallace and more with our new release picks for December 14, 2010

​As we're heading straight into Christmas, the new-release rack is starting to get more and more bare, but there's still enough worthwhile new media this week to highlight. We can't say the same for next week's releases, but since you'll probably be getting a stockpile of wrapped and delivere ... More >>

Second Street Art Market and Wine Bar drying up

​Heather and Doug Buchman are closing down their Second Street Art Market and Wine Bar in Monument. "The time has come for us to move forward from this experience and do more of what we do best," they report. The wine bar will remain open through Saturday; after that, they'll be selling off t ... More >>

Meet Seetwist: A former musician capturing the urban art and artists of Denver

​Ansel Adams, famous for capturing a multitude of black and white landscape photographs -- many of which likely adorn the walls of your dentist's office -- once said, "You don't take a photograph. You make it." Seetwist Productions lives, breathes, shoots and, thus, essentially embodies thos ... More >>

Street art makes its way to the big screen in Exit Through the Gift Shop

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