A few years ago, the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Visual Arts Photographic Legacy Program set forth to bestow thousands of photographic works from Warhol’s deep well on university-based galleries. The University of Denver, one of 180 beneficiaries across the country, received more than 150 pieces (galleries at the University of Colorado…
Photographer Mark Sink is one of the grand old men of the Denver cultural tableau, with a colorful past, deep roots in photography (his great-grandfather James L. Breese founded the Camera Club of New York, and Breese’s uncle Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, has been called “the…
If you’re a real Denver old-timer, you might remember the Third Eye, a brave little independent theater that operated out of a second-floor loft at Second and Broadway by local theater pioneers Joey and June Favre. It was a funky little space with black walls, plush red chairs pirated from…
What’s a secondary art market? It’s a sale of works that have been sold before and are back on the market. The advantage of buying these pre-owned works, from the collector’s point of view, is the clear picture it gives for a work’s resale value and present worth in the…
#99: Ratha Sok Ratha Sok just couldn’t stop tagging. Growing up in the projects of Westwood, he found his young voice in a spray can. Graffiti was the only art he knew. And eventually, he got caught. Ratha spent two months in Juvie, and that’s where things started, slowly, to…
Maybe, like a lot of people these days, you’ve picked up a needle and thread to sew or repurpose your own clothes, beguiled by the whole DIY craft movement. And maybe, like a lot of those like-minded folks, you’ve hit a wall. The Art Salon’s in-house professional seamstress/designer, April Hoy,…
Plenty of theater-goers, feminists and activists know about Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, which has been presented in venues of all sizes and shapes around the world. But if you’ve seen that hardly subtle production, you might be surprised by Ensler’s “other” play, The Good Body, which covers similar territory —…
When the local design- and fashion-savvy entrepreneurial couple Tran and Josh Wills visit other cities, they don’t look first for the typical tourist attractions and destinations. “We try to hit the Plastic Chapels, the Mona Lucero Design Boutiques in other places,” Tran says. Tran and Josh are part of a…
Ask Matt Doubek what he and fellow artist Sam Mobley have cooked up for Every Good Cowboy, their new show at Pirate: Contemporary Art, and he’ll tell you, “Barbecue!” Indeed, at tonight’s opening reception, there will be scorched meat, as well as a compendium of Western art-inspired works by the…
Among its many outreach programs, Curious Theatre Company’s Curious New Voices curriculum for youth is one of the strongest, and certainly one of the coolest: In progress since 2004, the program matches young playwrights ages 15 to 21 with guest mentors, under the auspices of Curious founding member Dee Covington,…
Mare Trevathan of Curious Theatre loves Circle Mirror Transformation, the comedy by Annie Baker that opens today at Curious; it’s her favorite production of the season.“It’s a play that’s told through the filter of an acting class, with theater themes,” explains Trevathan, an actor, director and theater-immersed person in her…
David Zimmer is a man of action and few words: A longtime figure in the Denver art scene, he’s something of an art alchemist who straddles a century in his enigmatic works, which bustle with strangely iconic curiosities and found objects, hovering half in and half out of the Victorian…
Big ideas take time to hatch, and for that reason Denver artists Rob Mack and Samuel Schimek have already announced their joint exhibition, Microclimates, which they describe as a large-scale graphic art environment in three distinctive parts and will open in June at Super Ordinary Gallery (a nascent venue that…
Tricia Hoke does so much more than design clothes — but she does even that with an intense artistic flair. An excellent illustrator who teaches classes on the fine art of fashion sketching, Hoke creates clothing from the most cozy material on earth — sweatshirt — but the pieces magically…
Dana Cain’s Ten Things You Need to Do to Put on a Denver County Fair Dana Cain believes a couple of things about event planning. First, and this is crucial, one must be prepared. Second, one must buoy the audience with hoopla throughout the event. Never forget a detail, and…
Boulder filmmaker Stacey Steers is a patient artist who animates the old-fashioned way: shot by shot on a stationary animation frame. On Friday at the Denver Art Museum, DAM Contemporaries hosted a screening of her works, including the world premiere of her latest, Night Hunter. It takes one aback to…
Whoever dreamed that we’d need to keep up with trends in gardening when for decades — nay, centuries — we thought all we had to do was dig a hole in the ground, drop in some seeds and care for the seedlings? Garden Media Group trend-spotter Suzi McCoy did, and…
Marilyn Megenity’s Mercury Café always rolls out the red carpet for Valentine’s Day, and this year is no exception: The slate will be full, beginning with special romantic dinner entrees in the dining room and the annual annual Mercury Motley Players Valentine’s Follies giving continuity to the goings-on. The players…
Valentine’s Day falls just in the nick of time — ’tis the season when our gonads traditionally get fired up for spring, the season of procreation: You know, the birds, the bees, all that good stuff. But in the age when fast cars creep along the highway, bridled and bound…
Considering that so many of them are starving, artists always seem to be front and center when it comes to donating works for a cause. There’s a lot of controversy about this — among artists in particular — but sometimes you just can’t say no. Case in point: AIGA’s Love…
Goodwill will ride high on the recycling trend with tonight’s Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap. And the organization has one of Denver’s biggest fashion celebrities, local Project Runway star Mondo Guerra, as the feather in its cap. “We’re trying to get the word out about the whole lifestyle…
The newly formed, in-house Byers-Evans House Theatre Company is truly a group effort, notes house playwright Maggie Stillman, who, along with six other writers contributed a series of vignettes on the subject of Love, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Designed to fill in the cracks that other Valentine-season shows…
