In anticipation of unveiling an expanded Japanese garden and neighboring Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion and Tea Garden this spring, it made perfect sense to the folks at the Denver Botanic Gardens to celebrate with an outpouring of Japanese culture, from summer camps and classes to art exhibits and special events…
In Adam Bock’s Obie Award-winning black comedy The Thugs, everyone works in a cubicle (in this case, at a law firm) and lives in a world where anything could go wrong at the drop of a hat. And in the intimate fifty-seat performance space at We’re House Performing Arts Center…
Denver Arts Week starts November 2 with a Know Your Arts First Friday. All week, we’re previewing events that might fall within the parameters of Denver Arts Week, but aren’t exclusive to its confines. Today’s First Friday pick, Fancy Tiger Clothing’s Civilized Living, is a monthly trunk show focusing on…
Denver Arts Week, which kicks off Friday with a special Know Your Arts First Friday, is really a big magnifying glass: Denver boasts a vibrant First Friday tradition every month of the year; this annual event just turns on the spotlight. As with any First Friday, the real trick is…
On Saturday night, a horde of dancers, musicians and performance artists took over the spaces of Prism Glass Works, an entrepreneurial hatching ground associated with the atelier-for-hire Club Workshop. Part of a “12-step program” leading up to next year’s Biennial of the Americas, it was intended as an opportunity for…
Last month’s DIY Blacktop Festival in the Denver Theatre District was no fluke — it marked the first step of Recuperatio|12: A series of twelve interdisciplinary events organized by the School of Critical Engagement. The twelve-month program will eventually align with next year’s Biennial of the Americas, exploring modes of…
If you’re funny, you gotta podcast. Neither the first or the last to realize that, veteran funny man Greg Proops, whom Drew Carey has called one of his favorite comics, launched his own live “Proopcast,” The Smartest Man in the World. And he records it with a live audience, both…
As its title implies, the Colorado-born traveling exhibit Return of the Corn Mothers has been around the mesa. And the result of photographer Todd Pierson’s five-year project documenting unsung modern women — metaphorically, the mythical Corn Mothers — of the Southwest, who’ve brought change to their communities through activism, creative…
El Diablo’s Día de los Muertos Celebration and Tattoo Artist Skull Show actually got its start four years ago at Jesse Morreale’s defunct Cherry Creek eatery, Tambien. But it was in the next year, when it was reincarnated at the newly opened El Diablo, that it really took off. And…
There are really two Halloweens: one for kids and one for adults, who love dressing up, too. And for the grownups, it’s a good time to let down your hair (and your fangs) and play-act for one wild, seasonal debauch. Here are a few places to have adult fun over…
There are really two Halloweens: one for kids and one for adults, who love dressing up, too. And for the grownups, it’s a good time to let down your hair (and your fangs) and play-act for one wild, seasonal debauch. Here are a few places to have adult fun over…
At 11 a.m. today, a small group of dignitaries led by Mayor Michael Hancock will gather at the McNichols Building at the edge of Denver’s Civic Center (just named a national landmark) to cut the ribbon on the classical structure’s new lease on life. Built in 1910 as a Carnegie…
Denver has a reputation as an entrepreneurial town, which means there are a lot of brains to pick here. And whether you’re already among the ranks of local creatives and small-business owners or thinking about joining them, you’re sure to find something interesting going on during Denver Startup Week, an…
We love our cons in Colorado, and there’s no con more splendid than MileHiCon, which unfolds this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center — for its 44th year. By tradition, MileHiCon is about books, but it’s also about the many worlds of genre fiction, from tried-and-true science fiction to…
Timothy Standring, curator of the Denver Art Museum’s exclusive exhibition Becoming Van Gogh, traveled the world for several years to beg and borrow the show’s more than seventy paintings and drawings. It wasn’t an easy task. “People aren’t going to loan works by van Gogh, arguably the most well-known artist…
The grand old classical McNichols Building in Civic Center Park has seen many incarnations and reincarnations since it was built as a public library by Andrew Carnegie more than 100 years ago. We last peered into its open spaces during the Denver Biennial of the Americas two summers ago, after…
The members of New Directions in Digital Arts, a collective born in a class taught by multimedia artist Mark McCoin at the University of Colorado in Boulder, are right at home with the quest to forge the future of the multimedia installation. And, as McCoin has noted of the group…
Portland multimedia artist Alexis Gideon’s show Alexis Gideon: Video Musics Series opened in late September at Emmanuel Gallery. But gallery director and curator Shannon Corrigan says the collection of still images, drawings and what she calls a “trailer,” for lack of a better word, are like eye candy to fuel…
Autumn means crunchy leaves and golden sunshine, frosty mornings and the annual Fall Studio Sale at the EvB Studio storefront that clay artist Marie Gibbons calls her home away from home. And it’s all good, especially the sale, which begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday. See also: – Reader: Marie…
Melissa Borrell has been making jewelry for years — stylish, lightweight metal or 3D-printed nylon necklaces and dangling earrings in clean, sculptural shapes. But recently, she’s had a hankering to create something larger and less functional. The result goes on display at PlatteForum when her installation, tessellate, opens tonight with…
What is dasHAUS? Created in Germany, the compact pavilion demonstrates the most up-to-the-minute green technologies in home-building, from the sleekest of sustainable materials to renewable energy systems. Packed full of bright ideas, dasHAUS started a fourteen-city tour of the U.S. a year ago; now it’s at home in Denver’s Sustainability…
Not all art has to have meaning. Some of it is made just for the hell of it, because it’s fun to make art — and sometimes that art ends up being beautiful. Or not. Munny shows tend to fall into this second category, just because it’s cool to see…
