Go up on the roof with Makers & Doers at LINC 1045

The Space Creators, the realtor/masterminds behind the RiNo artist enclaves of Wazee Union, Walnut Workshop and Laundry on Lawrence, do one special thing that sets them far apart from the pack in real estate: They are active partners in the communities they build. Not only do they provide legs for…

Breasts of Colorado breaks the mold for a fundraiser like no other

When it comes to artists decorating objects for charity we’ve probably seen it all by now — giant cow statues, guitars and violins, skateboard decks, fiberglass cats and even those hideous masks that seemed to start it all. But we’ve never before seen the likes of Breasts of Colorado, at…

Flock to MCA Denver

Whether one is speaking about the exhibits or the programs offered there, MCA Denver isn’t exactly known to offer boring fare, and Black Sheep Fridays, a series returning to the MCA Cafe for a seasonal run, is a case in point. The very poster child of edgy community programming, the…

A Gay Old Time

Broadway’s La Cage aux Folles is one of those everlasting crowd-pleasers; you don’t have to be a cross-dresser to end up laughing in the aisles over this musical comedy of errors surrounding a gay cabaret owner, Georges, and his vivacious drag queen of a mate, Albin. The role of Albin…

The Kindest Cuts

Kirie, or the Japanese art of paper cutting, is an intricate study in traditional yet ultra-contemporary design in the disciplined hands of Hyakkimaru, whose exhibition, Hyakkimaru’s Kirie World, opens today at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in conjunction with the upcoming Mountain Festival, a fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the Springs’…

A Shot in the Dark

Who but Stephen Sondheim would dare to write a musical about U.S. presidential assassins? The man famous for that other grisly Broadway hit, Sweeney Todd, did just that with Assassins, mining the lives of everyone from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald and even Colorado wannabe assassin John Hinckley…

New at I Heart Denver: Denver Picard Schimek in a box

We love our dogs in Denver, but few local pups have stirred up as much heart-thumping love and attention as house corgi Denver Picard Schimek, the I Heart Denver Store’s animal ambassador. His owner (and I Heart Denver entrepreneur) Samuel Schimek says the precious pooch turns one this month. See…

Photos: ARTCRANK Denver pedals into Taxi this weekend

The local graphics community rolls quite naturally alongside the hipster bike community, which is evident every September when the annual ARTCRANK bike-poster show takes a lap through Denver. This year’s event featuring $40 limited-edition, hand-printed posters by 36 talented artists will be in that RiNo live/work haven, Taxi, to celebrate…

The Beat Goes On

The late Stan Brakhage — a Colorado native and longtime Boulder fixture who’s recognized as a father of experimental filmmaking — spawned generations of visual rule-breakers. Although his work alone could easily fill a one-man retrospective, Brakhage is both a focus and a take-off point for the new Boulder Museum…

Last Poet Standing

In the world of slam poetry, competing as a team and competing as an individual are two different beasts, as Suzi Q. Smith, a member of this year’s Slam Nuba team (which made it to the national semi-finals last month, only to fall in a sudden-death slam-off), can attest. “When…

ArtCrank It Up

Every year since 2007, when bike lover/entrepreneur Charles Youel started ARTCRANK in his home town of Minneapolis, the concept — a bike-centric exhibit and sale of hand-screened posters by regional artists — has gotten just a little bit bigger and spread to new cities, from St. Louis to London. Denver…

Teamwork entwines five solo shows at Core New Art Space

The quintet of new exhibits now up at Core New Art Space veer a bit from the usual Core show construction: Four Core members, all friends and neighbors in the Fresh Art Studios located in the hallways behind the gallery, will share the main gallery that’s usually devoted to just…

The Art of Revision

The MCA changes its groove a bit with a new summer exhibit, Frohawk Two Feathers: We Buy Gold, We Buy Everything, We Sell Souls, featuring imaginative work from L.A.-based artist Umar Rashid, under the nom de plume of Frohawk Two Feathers. The collection of paintings, works on paper and sculptures…

The Flip Side of Mr. Lincoln

Noah Van Sciver, who draws Westword’s weekly “4 Questions” strip as well as the Blammo comic-book series, could be Denver’s comic artist most likely to succeed. He’s about to tour the country to promote his new graphic novel, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, and is already riding a wave…