Now that the renovated Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is back up and open and rockin’ and rollin,’ the institution’s ARTcore education wing will instigate a summer-long “Then & Now” Series of monthly talks that compare and contrast art movements from different periods. “The series is designed to make people…
More than an alliance of convenience, RiNo Neighbors bridges the gap, real or imagined, between the Upper Larimer and River North arts communities, which are separated physically by the railroad tracks but have much in common spirit-wise. One of the alliance’s first collaborations, a two-part Get to Know RiNo Open…
One thing’s for sure: You can pretty much always count on Denver Chicano Renaissance man Gwylym Cano to come up with something completely different. His reputation as a filmmaker is built on the funny 1995 yarn El Corrido de Cherry Creek, but he’s also made a name locally as a…
There’s not enough whimsy in this ugly world, and that’s why we need a few artists like Spark Gallery member Lisa Michot. They’re not out to make a big statement or turn the planet up-side-down. Michot-style, they just want to have a little fun and make people smile. She made…
Just as Capistrano has its swallows, Boulder has folk dancing: It’s a sure sign that summer is here when Folk Dancing on the Plaza returns to the Boulder Municipal Plaza, between Canyon Boulevard and Arapahoe Avenue, adjacent to the fittingly exotic Dushanbe Teahouse on Tuesday nights. This year’s weekly community…
The board of directors of Denver’s Museo de las Américas (861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, www.museo.org) has announced that Maruca Salazar (pictured), a well-known Colorado artist and arts educator, has been named as the institution’s new director. She’s only the third chief executive in the museum’s nearly twenty-year history. Salazar…
Barbara Takenaga and Mary Ehrin. These two solos feature contemporary work that’s informed by the influence of nature. Barbara Takenaga: Fade Away & Radiate, comprises a nice selection of abstracts by a New York artist who lived for many years in Colorado. Mary Ehrin: Rockspace is an installation by a…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007’s Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly unconventional guardian of society — one who has more critics than fans. But whereas the former falls to earth thanks to a plot loaded with psychodrama and…
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers’s solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-slacker-messiah, the author, upon interviewing to become a cast member of MTV’s The Real World, makes the following observation about his generation of self-obsessed, media-savvy technobrats: “These are people for whom the idea of anonymity is existentially irrational,…
The stately Japanese movie Departures comes to theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel’s Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy Awards. It’s not hard to fathom what Academy voters saw in Departures, an earnest appeal for renewed respect toward…
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it’ll take a million bucks to pass through Gotham’s plumbing. Turns out an hour is just enough time to roust the hated mayor…
Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, in which a man is accused of an unnamed crime and, having faced all kinds of baffling and inexplicable encounters as well as a wall of bureaucratic obstruction, is eventually executed, was published in 1925. In its evocation of the menace lurking in the shadows…
Claire Walter and Laura Daily are lifers when it comes to reporting, a dangerous prospect these days. So was laid-off Atlanta journalist Jennifer Maciejewski, who struck marketing gold when she started a blog called Atlanta on the Cheap and soon realized that the concept had had overgrown its sweet Georgia…
It’s never too early to start thinking about Halloween — or your next fetish ball, for that matter — and the Disguises Community Flea Market and Clearance Sale Extravaganza is a killer opportunity to do just that. Costume-making materials, props, makeup, shoes, novelties and several racks of one-of-a-kind former rental…
This is it. Absolutely, completely it. Local brainstormer and design guru Jaime Kopke is heading off to grad school, and after this month, her hands-on Denver Community Museum (for which ordinary people and artists alike were challenged to submit artifacts on a theme for a public show) will be a…
What better place to enjoy two of the greatest fruits of our earth — grapes and hops — than in a garden? And while you won’t find either crop growing at the Denver Botanic Gardens, you can celebrate them anyway at tonight’s Garden Grapes & Hops — a party featuring…
Every year, I get excited for the Arvada Center’s summer art exhibits, which are typically complementary yet distinct shows with enough diversity to satisfy wide-ranging tastes. And this year is no exception: The seasonal selections include Jill Greenberg: Monkeys and Bears, Haze Diedrich: Devotion and “Scramble” Campbell: Music With a…
Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007’s Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly unconventional guardian of society — one who has more critics than fans. But whereas the former falls to earth thanks to a plot loaded with psychodrama and…
Talk about the kindness of strangers. You’ve got to hand it to the folks in the Riverfront Park neighborhood who went to Judy Anderson at PlatteForum — the Central Platte Valley non-profit gallery that pairs at-risk youth and working artists — with an offer she couldn’t refuse, not no way…
Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Art has a mission to emphasize diversity and present modern works by artists not commonly seen in this city — and for assistant director/curator Cecily Cullen, the idea of a cross-cultural exhibit by a group of contemporary artists who are also Native…
Get inside the head of one of the most celebrated filmmakers in history when the Curious Mind of Werner Herzog kicks off tonight with the famed director’s documentary debut, Land of Silence and Darkness. This 1971 film turns the cameras on the blind-deaf, a world as alien to our own…
