#59: Yoshitomo Saito Tokyo-born Yoshitomo Saito came to the States as a glass-blower in 1983, before moving on to work in bronze sculpture as a graduate student at the California College of the Arts. After leaving his mark in the Bay Area, where he is still a member of the…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Back when she was an art student at Colorado State University, Becky…
Labor Day has come and gone, but we should have at least another month of good weather here in Denver — so let’s enjoy it. This week we’re watching movies, popping balloons and playing bingo — all for free. If you know of free events we missed, post them in…
Denver movie lovers should invest in some eye drops and caffeine pills and brace themselves for a nonstop month of cinematic bliss. To get a sense of just how much is going on, consider all the festivals that deserve mention yet didn’t make this list: The Southern Colorado Film Festival,…
Night Job is a collective show featuring artists who represent a young, working-class, art class perspective united by a sensibility that combines urban grit, an ineffable dream-like quality and an almost haunted yearning for connection with the essence of life. The work also embodies a blend of seeming thematic opposites…
School’s back in session — bad news for the young, great news for parents — and fall is almost here. The end of summer is always a little heartbreaking, but even as the weather cools, the geek scene is just heating up. September is full of great geeky things for…
The art at Union Station has been one of the surprise hits of the $54 million renovation project. The building holds more than 600 pieces of art, a collection so extensive that the Crawford Hotel, which fills the upper three floors, has both an electronic and a published guide to…
What? It’s Labor Day weekend already! How did that happen? Hopefully, you got you summer’s worth of events, culture, music, food and fun over the past twelve weeks or so, though. But just because the season is changing doesn’t mean there’s not more in store. This weekend, get your DILIGAF…
The people have spoken, and I have listened. Last week, I implored you, the readers, to help me set my path for the immediate future. I offered up a menu of four well-liked and respected science-fiction series — Doctor Who, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Farscape and Battlestar Galactica –…
#60: Andrew Hoffman Artist, art director, illustrator and teacher Andrew Hoffman crosses the line between graphic design and fine art with ease, creating ads and abstract paintings, and mentoring young artists along the way. How do things look to Hoffman, a new model of artist in a corporate world, as…
Suitsupply, a super-hip men’s suit store in Cherry Creek North, is specializing in tailoring and style for its upcoming fall collection, in stores next month. Suitsupply is an Amsterdam-based company with dozens of stores in Europe; over the last few years, it’s spread to the United States. Earlier this year…
Genius is hell, both for the blessed and for those stuck in the shadows, cursed to spend a lifetime smashing their heads against the glass. In its presence we find ourselves dwarfed and dumb, like moths. We know we’re before brilliance we can’t comprehend — and we know we’ll never…
Weep at another whiff of an Elmore Leonard adaptation, one that nails down neither the peppery laughs nor the street-crime desperation that are key to the writer’s work. Rather, Life of Crime is too broad to take the characters seriously, and the vibe is breezily aimless, a mistake in a…
For women, especially, it’s wholly out of fashion to have sympathy for middle-aged white men. The thinking goes as follows: They’ve reigned supreme long enough. Who cares about their anxiety over their receding hairlines, their poochy stomachs, their inability to attract young babes? That tinny plink you hear, as they…
Every now and then, you realize you’re watching a genuine star. Not just a very good, emotionally generous actor who makes intellectually interesting choices, but someone possessed of a quality that goes beyond that, a performer you’d happily watch in the dumbest and most boring show imaginable. This happened to…
Michael Paglia isn’t a big fan of the City & County of Denver when it comes to architectural and artistic decisions. After all, he writes, officials there have fumbled everything from I.M. Pei’s Zeckendorf Plaza, which was demolished in 1996, to the proposed destruction of Civic Center Park. Now the…
Angela Beloian and Roger Hubbard. For In Technicolor, her new exhibit at Walker Fine Art, Boulder artist Angela Beloian created a body of retro ’60s and ’70s paintings and screen prints based on “sketches” done using an iPhone. The works refer to minimalism, abstract surrealism and psychedelic art using just…
On Golden Pond. As this play opens, Norman and Ethel Thayer are moving back into their summer house in Maine. Every summer for 48 years, he’s come here to fish and she to putter around, read, gather strawberries. This, their last visit, represents a slow, gentle fading. There’s just a…
Here’s what an R rating gets you these days: a few splattery headshots, some glimpses of cable-TV-style background nudity, a couple kids and families popped by assassins, a brace of fucks, in dialogue, and one un-bracing fuck, in bed, mostly clothed. During its longueurs, this engagingly grim spy-versus-spymasters time-passer offers…
For women, especially, it’s wholly out of fashion to have sympathy for middle-aged white men. In both real life and fiction, the thinking goes, they’ve reigned supreme long enough. Who cares about their anxiety over their receding hairlines, their poochy stomachs, their inability to attract young babes? That tinny plink…
Using the latest in global satellite technology, Digital Earth: Mesa Verde takes viewers on an unparalleled visual journey through Mesa Verde National Park. During tonight’s showing, the cliff dwellings will be examined from past, present and future standpoints – and the screening will take advantage of the planetarium’s unique ability…
Art and technology seem to be at odds sometimes, but it doesn’t have to work that way. Technology can be used to create art and to illuminate the process of its creation, as it will tonight at the TechHub Art Party. “What we do is integrate our technology in the…
