Looking ahead to the citywide Create Denver arts blowout in May, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Denver Theatre District are teaming up to put the work of some Denver digital media artists up in lights — really big ones — on the giant outdoor LED screen at 14th and Champa…
Cristy Road is a queer punk-rocker radical feminist Cubana artist and writer; her career as a ‘zinester dates back to the 7th grade and a time when she struggled with personal gender and identity issues, masking over her true feelings with a combination of deep-felt loneliness and an obsession with…
As evidenced by last fall’s Art Meets Beast event, at which a bison carcass was butchered before a fascinated audience of back-to-the-earth locavores, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver clearly wants to provide its visitors with the kind of hands-on experiences that stick to your bones. (After all, the two-day…
Gone are the days of the gas-guzzling trophy car. If you want to gain the respect of your automotively inclined peers today, you have to go green — as green as you can possibly go. And so the focus at the annual Denver Auto Show, which opens tonight at 6…
Swedish detective fiction has an icy edge: The cold, the darkness and the brooding populace biding time in the snow add something singular to the genre, something that could only come from the kind of mystery writer who’s spent too much time in the sauna. In fact, that hot, vaporous…
The premise of K2, a play about two men trapped on a ledge at 27,000 feet on the side of the world’s second highest mountain with little chance of them both living through it together, is one that few humans thankfully will ever experience in true life. But a universal…
Colorado Creatives #96: Patrick Mueller Patrick Mueller grew up in Lakewood and then left town for schooling at Pomona, where he started out a visual artist and through a new-found interest in theater, came away a movement and performance artist. A period of wandering followed, during which he lived a…
Some years ago, Denver artist (and Westword MasterMind, class of 2007) Katie Taft instigated and curated the Self Made salon series at Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, wherein artists gave informal talks and networking and discussion ensued over food and drink. Financial realities and life then got in the way, and…
People who grew up in a certain time can almost plot their pasts in terms of the pictures in Henry Luce’s LIFE Magazine: Long before there was an internet, with its constant bombardment of instantaneous imagery, the photojournalism tableau that was LIFE was packed with the stuff of memories -…
No, it’s not your imagination. The Art District on Santa Fe Drive does look different. That’s because about 200 new high-efficiency LED lights have been installed in all the street lamps along Santa Fe, between Sixth and Tenth avenues. Oh, and they’re blue. Not golden, and — for goodness sakes!…
When local artrepreneur and Westword MasterMind Eric Matelski taught ArtReach summer camps back in the day, he picked up a few tricks, like how to build a house out of Popsicle sticks or trace your hand to make a turkey. Takes you back, doesn’t it? Just about everyone can relate…
“If someone asked me at the end of the day, ‘Ashara, what do you want to be?,’ I would say that I want to be a curator. I’d have the unmitigated gall to think I could curate a show. But it’s true: When I grow up, I want to own…
Denver’s And Toto Too theater troupe does something none of the others do, notes spokeswoman Susan Lyles: They produce and perform only new works — many of them premieres — created by women, both local and international. With that in mind, the company kicks off its 2011 season tonight with…
It wasn’t First Friday or even Second Saturday, for that matter, but last Friday night was still art-heavy with receptions as the Month of Photography progresses. A lot of people, I found out, were over at Belmar, ringing in Feminine Influence, a woman-centric show curated by Katie Taft at Flash…
There’s no doubt that Spalding Gray, the monologue artist who disappeared into the East River in January of 2004, is — and will be for some time — a cult figure of magnitude. His autobiographical storytelling, delivered so nakedly, frankly and without pretension, often from behind a desk, was an…
The beauty of River North’s Wazee Union, 3501 Wazee Street, with its affordable artist studios and spirit of community, has gone forth and multiplied: Wazee’s managers, S. Brian Smith and Neil Adam, will officially christen Walnut Workshop, the project’s sister location across the railroad tracks at 3525 Walnut Street, when…
You can thank Denver photographer (and photography booster) Mark Sink for setting Denver’s Month of Photography in motion. “It’s pretty grassroots — just me, myself and my staff of me,” Sink says with a grain of salt. But though he’s at the center of the maelstrom that is MOP, he…
#98: Sabin Aell Austrian-born Denver artist Sabin Aell — mixed-media artist and photographer, maker of unusual jewelry, graphic designer, gallerist and curator — casts a ray of sunshine down among the warehouses of RiNo: Not only is Hinterland, the gallery she and husband Randy Rushton run in their living space,…
The city’s Month of Photography has gone from a blip to a major event over the last few years; credit photographer Mark Sink for choreographing this year’s liftoff into the stratosphere. MOP has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, but how do you navigate through all the shows…
Last night, something happened that might have long-suffering Boulder art-film lovers rocking in their plush seats with joy: The bright, shiny Boedecker Theater at the Dairy center for the Arts opened to the public for its first state-of-the-art digital screening, featuring the 50th-anniversary restored version of Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Breathless,…
Folksinger and quintessential left-leaning activist Phil Ochs floated around the edges of Greenwich Village royalty in the ’60s, maintaining an on-again, off-again friendship/rivalry with Bob Dylan and writing such songs as “I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore” and “There But for Fortune,” which injected the influences of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger…
Ladies, imagine for a moment a world without men. How would we cope? Or maybe — and this might be the real question — how wouldn’t we cope? That’s the lode that Boulder movement and performance artist Michelle Ellsworth mines in her reworked one-woman show Preparation Y, resulting in a…
