When the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver unveiled its fabulous new David Adjaye-designed building last fall (“Smart and Sassy,” October 27, 2007), director and curator Cydney Payton put together seven discrete shows which were presented in each of the museum’s seven clearly defined spaces. Partly because the exhibits all opened on…
Just a hop, skip and a jump across Wadsworth Boulevard from the Lab at Belmar (see review) is the Lakewood Heritage Center in Belmar Park (801 South Yarrow Street, Lakewood, 303-987-7850). In the LHC’s Radius Gallery, curator Robin Anderson has organized Parallel Pathways, a ceramics duet featuring the work of…
George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George Carlson: Heart of the West deals with the career of an accomplished neo-traditional artist who looks to the century-old Impressionist style for inspiration. The Carlson exhibit includes nearly…
The award-winning play The Lieutenant of Inishmore — written by Martin McDonough of In Bruges fame — is the perfect way to kick of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations if you’re Irish. Even if you’re not, it’s hard to resist this wacky tale of an Irish Liberation Army enforcer and his…
Thomas Steed, owner and financier of Polygamy Productions, has simple things to say about the first installment of his two-part music and sound festival, Illusions in Sound: “People loved it. It was received very well; we got a lot of fan mail.” But there was a hitch: Part one took…
Although he doesn’t like to favor one show over another, Plus Gallery owner and curator Ivar Zeile expects jaws to drop at this month’s exhibition. Zeile deems it an array of “intelligent representational art,” and the display of works from two Colorado painters and one photographer is sure to provoke…
Two very different artists with a common talent for evoking the fantastic and otherworldly in familiar subjects come together in I’ve Got the Zombies If You’ve Got the Tilt-a-Whirl, which is on display at Kitchens’ Ink, 757 Santa Fe Drive. Trevor Alyn makes digital composites of multiple photographs to transform…
It might not seem as though burlesque and feminism have much in common, but Michelle Baldwin, Westword contributor and founder of Burlesque As It Was, has several compelling reasons why she considers burlesque a feminist activity. She’ll share her thoughts tonight during Feminism & Co.: The History and Politics of…
The Stories on Stage Out-of-the-Box Series is called that for a reason: Like its SOS parent series, it’s a cycle of dramatic readings melding literature and theater arts on a theme. But unlike the main stage productions, Out-of-the-Box is sequenced differently, with more than one reader on stage at a…
East Colfax’s quiet renaissance of cool is about to get a lot louder as the Super Block Party, tonight from 7 to 11 p.m., announces the arrival of the newest of Denver’s groovy hot spots. The free party kicks off a series of regular “Second Saturday” events organized by cupcake…
As the international splash of grand-opening shows fades at the new (and still sparkling) Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, director/curator Cydney Payton is getting down to the business of going local by featuring Denver artist Jeff Starr as the venue’s first regional artist-in-residence in the Project Gallery, a hands-on space intended…
Twin brothers from different classes, one set enslaved to the other, are shipwrecked and separated. A chance reunion years later is the catalyst for a comedic romp in which mistaken identity leads to all sorts of hijinks — including a brush with incestuous seduction — where much of the humor…
The non-profit sector in this country is a $1.3 trillion industry, and the world’s seventh-largest economy. It encompasses more than 1.5 million organizations — everything from museums and hospitals to think tanks and church charities. So what happens to grassroots groups when they enter the world of 501(c)3s? The authors…
“It’s sort of a cliche: They don’t make independent films like they used to,” says local film curator extraordinaire Christopher May. Unfortunately, that cliche is true. That’s why May has helped organize the new Classic Arthouse Series every second and fourth Saturday of the month at Neighborhood Flix Cinema &…
Much like a preview trailer, Central City Opera’s OPERA Shorts! provides a fun little teaser of a full opera production. It’s sure to be a hit with opera lovers, but it’s also an easy and painless 45-minute introduction for those who aren’t as sure of their feelings for the challenging…
Are you the next Van Gogh, Robert Johnson, Karl Marx or Versace — but you’d like to cash in on your creative genius before your untimely demise? If so, make your way over to the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building, 201 West Colfax Avenue, today for the third annual…
For director Amy Serrano, The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, which is at the center of two events today, was a film that demanded to be made. Upon learning that thousands of Haitians are smuggled into the…
Military Intelligence and You!, which opens tonight, would have seemed smarter had it been shorter. Writer-director Dale Kutzera uses stock footage and old movie clips populated by Ronald Reagan, William Holden and more to construct a faux-instructional film ostensibly intended for World War II-era soldiers — although the often-hilarious narration…
Every time I amble through the Denver Art Museum, I have the sudden urge to reach out and fondle one of the many masterpieces adorning its angular walls. If you’re like me, and you’re not Thomas Crown or an insane burglar from Zurich, then you should consider dropping in on…
Brazilian performance artist Augusto Boal believes that standard theater divides people into a few who do and the many who watch. To Boal, this represents a model of the overall ruling structure in which monologue leads to oppression. In response, he wrote a book and set up a program called…
“Brilliant” is a term that gets thrown around far too casually and liberally, but when used to describe If This Thing Should Spill, it’s indisputably applicable. Over the course of thirteen tracks, Born in the Flood presents an overwhelmingly convincing case for why it’s one of Denver’s most vital bands…
Although he shot thousands of documentary images of Soviet workers, students and wartime battlefields during his long career (and later served as photo editor of the U.S.S.R.’s Life-like picture tabloid Ogonyak), Communist-era photojournalist Semyon Fridlyand remains little known in the West. Until now, that is: The University of Denver, which…
