The nonprofit advocacy group, Women in Design, is sponsoring a lecture tonight at Walker Fine Art called “Work is Freedom.” The topic is the work of three significant 20th century modernist designers: Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand and Lilly Reich…
Ever since regaining a shred of cultural relevance in the late ’90s with a cameo in which he beat the bejesus out of Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, it seems longtime The Price is Right host Bob Barker’s been pretty uppity. So uppity, in fact, that last week, he had…
You are invited to run, trot, walk, stagger or crawl every Thursday at either 6:15 or 6:30 p.m., weather permitting, by joining the Irish Snug Running Club, a large, loose and fun-loving group that takes a 5K loop each week before settling down to eat and drink. Tonight, a representative…
Denver made international architecture news last week when Spanish-born Santiago Calatrava came to town to unveil his designs for the expansion of Denver International Airport. An engineer and an architect, Calatrava gained fame — and respect — with his designs of bridges, transportation stations and buildings. There was so much…
After years of anticipation, construction of a new Clyfford Still Museum at the corner of West 13th Avenue and Bannock Street is finally moving forward. Last week, Dean Sobel, the CSM’s founding director, and Brad Cloepfil, the head of Allied Works Architecture, unveiled the final design for the museum, which…
Colorado Art Survey. Over the years, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has relentlessly sought out and acquired new things for the institution’s permanent collection. In the current exhibit, Colorado Art Survey, he shows off some of these conquests and brings other things out of storage. There are some rarely seen…
Beauty and the Beast. Though it’s backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads are as good as — and often better than — anyone you’ll see anywhere. Jenna Bainbridge is the sweetest Belle imaginable, with a clear, strong soprano and, paradoxically,…
Named for the muscle that turns your nut sack into a walnut when it gets cold, The Cremaster Cycle swings the biggest dick in contemporary art. Produced from 1994 through 2002, Matthew Barney’s humongous riff on struggle, reproduction, conceptual drag, and several dozen strands of narrative gobbledygook is undeniably something…
After obligatory helicopter views of New York’s skyline open Adam McKay’s The Other Guys, we’re introduced to Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson), a duo of headline-grabbing, unflappable supercops who keep the city exciting, if not safe, with law enforcement by the Michael Bay book. The Other…
In the summer of 2007, two Western journalists dug in with a platoon of American soldiers on a fifteen-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, a strategic outpost near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. The mountainous region was infested with Taliban fighters and possibly used as an Al-Qaeda base of operations. On…
The first scene in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is between a husband and the wife he suspects of adultery. She has just returned from a purported business trip to Switzerland, which he believes she never took. The dialogue is swift and urbane, with wry ruminations on digital watches, the…
On the run from a dreary Dublin housing project, Kylie and Dylan (played by two non-actors, Kelly O’Neill and Shane Curry, plucked from Irish schools and oozing forlorn defiance) are a latter-day Hansel and Gretel who escape from black-and-white Loachian neo-realism into the junky beauty of an urban fairy tale…
Sellars Project Space is an elegant little gallery in the west side’s Berkeley neighborhood that was founded by artist and arts promoter Jimmy Sellars. His latest offering, Heidi Jung, is a self-titled solo dedicated to a Colorado artist whose work has been all over town lately, with examples at Ironton…
The Anderson Ranch Art Center outside Aspen is world-famous, which is why world-famous artists go there to support it. “It’s astounding, all the creative work that’s done here,” says Barbara Bloemink, who came on as the latest executive director just a few months ago. (She was formerly at the Cooper-Hewitt…
Catch a glimpse of the future at TEDxBoulder, the local version of the renowned TED conference. The acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, the three core areas of focus, but what it’s really about is ideas. “For geeks, TED is something almost mythical. It’s a collection of startling minds, many…
Jerry Vigil wants you to know that the Carreta de Muerte — or “Death Cart” — has nothing to do with Day of the Dead. “It actually has to do with Holy Week,” the artist explains. Here’s the story: A long time ago, the Catholic Spaniards who had colonized southern…
It’s nice to know that Historic Denver Inc. can now boast a little history of its own. The preservation-minded nonprofit, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, will make that perfectly clear by bringing back, at least in spirit, A Night in Historic Denver, a defunct history festival that drew…
A former vegetarian, Daniel Asher, the now-carnivorous chef of Root Down, is a strong proponent of eco-friendly, sustainable and local food sourcing, and throughout the month of August, as part of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life series, he’ll be conducting weekly food demonstrations that focus on produce, humanely…
Boulder International Fringe Festival associate producer Kestrel Burley wants to create a “Petri dish for experimentation” this year. It’s an apt metaphor: Like a lab scientist, Burley is providing the materials, setting the parameters and then stepping back to see what will happen. In advance of the main Fringe festivities…
Dana Cain misses nothing, especially when it concerns one of her idols. So when the Denver promoter of pop-culture events and local artists noted months ago that Andy Warhol’s birthday fell on First Friday this year, she worked to galvanize the Art District on Santa Fe (on whose board she…
One of the Biennial’s most ambitious local art exhibitions doesn’t officially open until today, five days after the citywide July event ended, but that doesn’t mean that the show, PlatteForum’s ambitious Here at Home: 6 Artists, has spent the month of July under wraps. Rather, the collaborative works created by…
Last year’s inaugural Local Flavor Festival was small. Really small. But, notes Mickki Langston of the Mile High Business Alliance and its offshoot, Colorado Local First, that was intentional. “This is a fairly intimate gathering,” Langston says. “There are plenty of huge fests in the city already, and we’re definitely…
