In the video documentary Flashing on the Sixties, by Lisa Law (, whose photographs are on view through February at the Byers-Evans House Museum), it’s noted that even in the early alternative hippie world of communes and cohabitation, women still did the traditional “woman’s work” — they cooked and watched…
The Kool-Aid was Kool-Aid, the brownies were brownies and people were packed into the room like sardines. But the vibe still flew free Friday night at the Byers-Evans House Gallery, for the opening of Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties, a meaty show of images both iconic and fascinating from…
Editor’s Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment…
Got an itch in your tights to take up dancing? You’re not the only one. One way that adventurous dance companies like Ballet Nouveau Colorado bankroll work that’s not run-of-the-mill is through instruction. BNC, for instance, offers year-round dance and fitness classes for all ages and ability levels, from toddlers…
Photographer Lisa Law didn’t just take pictures of the young Bob Dylan. She was also his cook and masseuse, and she hung out with him in L.A. when he roomed in the “Castle” where she then also lived. Her personal involvement with the artists she shot is the real legacy…
If you haven’t made it to the new Clyfford Still Museum yet — and even if you have — here’s an opportunity too good to refuse: The museum will kick off a citywide season of related art events tonight by inviting the public to an evening of behind-the-scenes tours and…
As Museo de las Americas director Maruca Salazar told us when opening the show Wixaritari: Huichol Art of Mexico, color is more than a simple sensation for the Huichol people, who imbue it with spiritual characteristics and see themselves as vessels of its natural life force. There’s something lovely and…
Wes Jessup, the new director at the Longmont Museum, comes to Colorado by way of the Pasadena Museum of California Art; now, he’s also bringing us a piece of sunny California, with the opening of a new exhibit from his former workplace. Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas…
It’s a long way from the Ringling big top to the Coney Island Circus Side Show, but the latter is possibly the more historically correct — or, at the very least, the most extreme: Its strong men truly freak us out with their feats, and its pretty boys are carnival…
Denver’s Vintage Theatre took on a major project when its members decided to take on Avenue Q: The Tony Triple Crown-winning adult musical featuring Muppet-like puppets, made from scratch with big, flappin’ dirty mouths, isn’t cheap to to stage, nor is it your everyday song-and-dance. The actors actually wield the…
As First Friday regulars can attest, when the Art District on Santa Fe throws a shindig, it goes all out. That’s especially true in the case of the annual Santa Fe Art District Best Of exhibition, which awards artists who show in the district two ways: first, with awards given…
Currently in the spotlight for his latest film, Melancholia — in which life goes on in a world under the threat of total destruction — Danish director Lars von Trier peppers his movies with avant-garde visuals, misogyny, complex stories and stylized stagings. And since the release of Element of Crime…
Film-going ain’t what it used to be. But thanks to the Denver Film Society, you can enjoy an old-school viewing experience on Tuesdays in January, when the DFS will roll out brand-new prints of five foreign classics on the big screen at the Denver FilmCenter. The weekly screenings flicker on…
I never make resolutions or even expect to be able to stick to one; it’s my nature to veer, day-to-day, with the winds and the waves. If I’m hungry, I eat. If I want to be alone, I cocoon. That’s just me, but I’m not at all against the idea…
Here’s something to ponder in 2012: The new year will mark, among other things, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. And, as Chris Loffelmacher of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program points out, “How often does a shipwreck turn 100?” That’s why, when Loffelmacher rolls…
Jews like me are always finding ways to pass the time when the rest of you are putting up and taking down your trees. Sure, we light our little candles for eight nights (whenever those might fall), exchange gifts, and share latkes and chocolate gelt and other holiday delicacies, but…
Art appreciation and exploration go hand in hand at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s ongoing BMoCA Scavenger Hunt promotion, which began in mid-October and runs through the end of January. Financed by an Arts and Business Collaborative Grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, it links museum-goers with nearby businesses…
Core New Art Space member Lola Montejo grew up in Madrid during the heady ’80s, when the urban center blossomed culturally after years of censorship under the Franco dictatorship. “My grandmother once told me that she was not even allowed to have a typewriter,” Montejo remembers. “During that time of…
Graffiti-art aficionados will agree — Street Cred, the exhibition now at the Longmont Museum, earns its title. Direct from new Longmont director Wes Jessup’s former workplace, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, it offers an in-the-moment overview of California graffiti writers, as well as a local showcase tailored in-house by…
Bicycle vs. Homing Pigeon vs. Moped from Village Voice Media on Vimeo.We’ve been rolling off lists this week like there’s no tomorrow, and maybe there isn’t, considering that pesky 2012 Mayan prophecy and all that. Earlier this week, Jef Otte presented his 10 best moments in Denver arts list, riffing…
It’s been carilloneur Robert Gift’s thankless task each Christmas for the last thirty years or so to whip the City and County Building’s recalcitrant Robert Speer Memorial Chime into shape: Comprised of ten mannerless and hopelessly untuned bronze bells, the instrument — if you can call it that — has,…
When Maruca Salazar took over a couple of years ago as director of Museo de las Americas, she envisioned a curatorial pattern that would feature Latino art in an alternating series of contemporary, traditional and folk art exhibitions. She’s filled the folk art slot beautifully with Wixaritari: Huichol Art of…
