There are openings all over town this weekend, and the art will transport you right out of this world. Here are just three of the artistic displays worth seeing this weekend… See also: Denver Chalk Art Festival…
#78: Buntport Theater Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Samantha Schmitz and (sometimes) Evan Weissman are Buntport Theater, and it’s not too far off the mark to think of this sextet of personalities as a single entity — that’s just how they work, slinging ideas back and forth…
A solo show from Xi Zhang is always a beautiful treat, and Bone, which opens tonight at Plus Gallery, will double your pleasure. As Ivar Zeile of Plus notes, Zhang “paints with a lot of experimentation and has been evolving with several different styles over the last few years.” And…
Parents of millennials all know the writing’s on the wall — of Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram, that is — and that the way we communicate has changed forever, thanks to the onward march of readily available technologies we could have barely imagined were possible fifty years ago. In a nutshell,…
We mostly remember silent-film pioneer Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp, the iconic, sweet-faced, mustachioed ne’er-do-well character in a bowler hat who bumbled through poignant, long-ago adventures in black and white. But Chaplin’s 1952 talkie Limelight explored different and more ironic ground, as the aging film star walked through autobiographical…
Colorado native Montgomery Knott began the first incarnation of Monkey Town more than ten years ago in a Williamsburg loft in Brooklyn, but his dream to take the immersive film-and-food experience on the road will bring him back to Denver for a three-month stand that he says is a testing…
A couple of guys had a crazy dream, and it all came together in a bar in Orlando. “We wanted to do some kind of a race, and decided to do something with inflatables,” recalls Insane Inflatable 5K co-creator Stuart Kaul. “The more beers we had, the crazier the ideas…
The wooing of young-professional audiences has become one of the most important trends in the marketing of cultural attractions, from art museums to the ballet. And if you’ve been watching, you’ll have noticed that many of our cultural institutions support philanthropic “in” clubs that blend mingling at fundraising events with…
#79: Brad K. Evans Brad K. Evans is a different kind of leader, one who casts a skewed entrepreneurial light upon all his pursuits — of which there are many. And he does it all with a sense of humor and adventure. Artist, designer, dumpster diver, realtor and bike advocate,…
Art doesn’t go on vacation or take three-day weekends, and this weekend’s bounty proves it. Here are a few shows — big, small, serious and not so serious — to check out while you’re kicking back. See also: Stephen Batura, Stream, Ironton Gallery…
#80: Katie Kruger When we think of “creatives,” we often think of “creators” — artists, authors, musicians and actors. But Katie Kruger breaks out of that box. From her vantage point as board co-chair for the Denver Art Museum’s CultureHaus young professionals group, which works to encourage cultural philanthropy in…
Opening a new gallery is never an easy proposition, especially when the space in question is huge and comes with a reputation to uphold (past tenants have included the well-regarded Sandy Carson and van Straaten galleries). But artist and art consultant Mike McClung and his partner, Warren Campbell, already have…
Somewhere in the midst of becoming a painter, Mark Penner Howell discovered the human figure. And if there’s anything especially new and interesting about the works going on display tonight for his solo show Double Rainbow Plans: Paintings by Mark Penner Howell at Walker Fine Art, that shift in focus…
If you live in Boulder, it just wouldn’t be Memorial Day without the annual BolderBOULDER 10K, which has attracted not hundreds, but thousands of runners each May since 1979, making it one of the biggest road races anywhere in the U.S. If you run in Colorado, this is the place…
Although Arapahoe Basin typically closes its season with the Festival of the Brewpubs, sometimes — a few seasons ago, for instance, when a snow drought shortened everyone’s run — the skiing is already over. Not so in 2014, says A-Basin spokeswoman Adrienne Saia Isaac. “This year, the skiing is still…
It’s been two years since the once-private Anschutz Collection — one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Western art — first opened its doors to the public for limited guided tours in its home at the American Museum of Western Art. And it’s been so successful — perhaps too…
#81: Stephen Batura Colorado native Stephen Batura is a painter’s painter, best-known for his large, monochromatic works on wood panels inspired by Charles Lillybridge’s photographs of everyday life from a century ago. Also known for working big, Batura created “Rehearsal,” a detailed mural he painted to sprawl above the bar…
Our current cover story, Alan Prendergast’s “Party in the Park,” looks at how Denver’s park rangers are gearing up for a busy summer season. In response, Westword writers are weighing in with appraisals of their own favorite Denver parks, continuing with Susan Froyd’s tribute to Garland Park. I’m a bit…
Red Bull’s national cooler challenge stopped in Denver this week with a mission for twenty handpicked Denver artists: Each was presented with a Red Bull cooler covered in canvas and asked to turn it into a work of art. The resulting works were reviewed by a panel of local gallerists,…
Art is everywhere this weekend, including dozens of stops on the district-wide RiNo Art Safari on Saturday. Here are three singular shows worth checking out in other neighborhoods. See also: TEXT, at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts…
#82: Tobias Fike Nebraska native Tobias Fike, now working in Colorado after earning his MFA at the University of Colorado Boulder, isn’t tied down by a particular medium or discipline — or even a particular place. Instead, he manipulates concepts, makes sculpture and video, launches performances, collaborates and, with the…
Boulder photographer and painter Chuck Forsman is like the Ansel Adams of the ordinary, and it’s worked very well for him, as in the series Western Rider, for which he snapped plain but skillful landscapes from a car window, or Walking Magpie, where he observed with the lens while walking…
