This June, Nick Cave — not the Bad Seeds Nick Cave, but the Chicago-based artist Nick Cave — will transform the Denver Art Museum into a living garden of the fantabulous moving costumes he creates with Nick Cave: Sojourn, an exhibit of forty works, including twenty Soundsuits. And what are…
As the University of Colorado at Boulder’s International Film Series kicks off its spring series tonight, you might notice a slight shift in the force. Longtime IFS director Pablo Kjolseth, one of the area’s last holdouts in the 35mm-or-digital debate over quality of film experience, is considering, and maybe more…
Every great filmmmaker has to start somewhere. In fact, even the not-so-great ones need a place to air their cinematic laundry, and that’s the reason for Open Screen Night Denver, a monthly event at the Oriental Theater that’s open to anyone who dabbles in the art of short film and…
The double race for the pinnacle of dragdom is on again: As Season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race commences tonight, so does the Ultimate Queen Contest 2013 at Tracks, and it all comes packaged up together in one long, entertaining sashay through a Monday night. See also: – Queens Nina…
If it feels like something’s been gone from your life, perhaps it’s Untitled. But now the Denver Art Museum’s Friday night happy hour of fun programming is back from its holiday hiatus with a whole new agenda for a whole new year. See also: – Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson on…
Art of the State, which opens tonight at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, is an ambitious attempt to present the full scope of Colorado artists working in every medium and genre. Put together by Arvada Center gallery director Collin Parson and jurist Dean Sobel of the Clyfford…
Philip J. Steele Gallery curator Cortney Stell spends a lot of time scouring the world for trends in art. It’s her passion, and it pays off: Stell continually charms international artists into visiting the Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design to exhibit and discuss their work. And her first…
Rooted in the found-text theories of such American conceptual heavyhitters of the ’60s and ’70s as Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre and Andy Warhol, the huge exhibit Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, which opens tonight at MCA Denver, will fill several spaces in the museum, including a freight elevator and the…
Looking for the unusual in the arts in 2013? Downtown Denver’s private Dikeou Collection and the Dikeou Golden Triangle pop-up space are both places to start. And if you haven’t already checked it out, hurry to the downtown venue’s Swap Meet: Artpace and the Dikeou Collection, a major exhibition mounted…
Theresa Anderson — fine artist, gallery director, blogger, co-op member at Pirate Contemporary Art and PlatteForum artist-committee member — already ranked inclusion in our ten people to watch in the arts list simply by being so multifaceted, and in an interesting way. And now she’s switching out one of those…
#99: Donald Fodness At first glance, the works of Donald Fodness — which range from intricate drawings to full-blown assemblages, installations and performance pieces — might seem like chaos personified, filled with a million unrelated things that make your mind go a little crazy, if in a good way. But…
#100: The Ladies Fancywork Society The Ladies Fancywork Society — a somewhat anonymous collective of crafty women — has been delighting Denver for a half-dozen years, working covertly in the dark of night to create yarnbombed installations that sprout out of nowhere in the strangest of places. They’ve made us…
Author Luis Urrea started the fictionalized saga of his own great-aunt Teresita, a Yaqui curandera known as the Saint of Cabora, in the acclaimed 2006 novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter. More recently, he caught up with the rest of her story in a surprising sequel, Queen of America, in which the…
Imagine a promising young ballerina walking home from a performance. But there’s no happy ending to her day: She’s struck by a car and ends up fighting for her life in the Denver Health ICU after suffering a significant brain injury. Three months later, she finds herself in a wheelchair,…
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is no rally for yuppie trophy cars. Instead, the “beamer” refers to a projector — or, rather, a whole room full of projectors, all going at once in a dazzling DIY display of light, color and sound. Originally the concept of Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal,…
Naked Walls is a one-night stand: On this very rare occasion when the expansive walls at RedLine Gallery are bare, new RedLine resident Amber Cobb and friends are inviting fellow artists to hang their own art there for one splendid night of showing and viewing. See also: – BYOB Denver…
A little-known chapter of indigenous Colorado history will unfold tonight when the History Colorado Center’s ongoing monthly lecture series presents “And Many Wore Moccasins: The Ute, Navajo and Blackfoot Nations and World War I,” with Dr. Timothy Winegard of Colorado Mesa University. See also: – Photos: Denver diorama finds new…
Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater describes his growing side-project Warm Cookies of the Revolution as a “civic health club.” All about getting people together to discuss community issues and have fun, the growing monthly event just naturally draws out ideas in a positive environment. This month, he’s invited three very…
Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Mitnick is a young phenom in the theater world whose play-in-progress, Ed, Downloaded was featured as a reading as part of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit in 2012. A year later, the fully produced play — utilizing sophisticated, cutting-edge visuals to tell the…
On the cutting edge of the dance world, it’s not just about movement anymore, although the physical voyage through space is still an integral part. In Dance the Orange, a new performance created by Monica Dionysiou and Marc Devine of the the Umbrella Collective, the movement is suspended in a…
When it came time for CORE New Art Space member Carmen Melton to put up her first show, she had a different take on how to use her precious wall space: Instead of simply highlighting herself, Melton organized Our Neighbors, Ourselves, a huge group portrait show focusing on the plight…
They say the best things in life are free, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Concert and Humanitarian Awards must surely be one of them, given that the program is not only gratis, but also all about the business of striving to be free. The…
