1959. Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is the host curator for Modern Masters at the Denver Art Museum, and he’s done a companion exhibit at his own stamping grounds called 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. (Special tickets allow visitors to see both.) The backstory for…
Animal Crackers. Animal Crackers is a romp, a trifle — full of puns, malapropisms and visual jokes, and utterly, unabashedly silly. The plot is just an excuse for the crazy brothers, nominally playing actual characters, to visit a Long Island mansion and pull off a series of stunts. There are…
Liza Johnson’s proudly frustrating Hateship Loveship is a film you’ll long to like. As middle-aged virgin Johanna, buttoned-up, buttoned-lipped Kristen Wiig seems to have landed in the Midwest from Mars — she could be The Maid Who Fell to Earth. In real life, Johanna would be wearing mom jeans and…
Two years ago, friends Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien realized that they didn’t just enjoy discussing popular culture, but that they also reveled in the High Fidelity spirit of connecting it to personal experiences. Thus the These Things Matter podcast was born, and Gonda and O’Brien began bringing special guests…
The decision to take over the Big Read national literary project — after the City of Denver chose to drop it — has worked out well for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and especially for its constituents, who’ve been offered compelling reasons to pick up a book (in this case, Marilynne Robinson’s…
Christopher Moore is one of those rare authors who can charm people who don’t particularly enjoy reading. His whimsical, irreverent style has been applied to vampires and demon lizards and even the story of Jesus Christ. In fact, one of Moore’s signature traits is his ability to take a well-known…
“The moment I saw one of the rehearsals of the Romero troupe, I knew it was a project I wanted to be involved with,” says anthropologist Michael Kilman, director of the feature documentary film Unbound: The Story of the Romero Theater Troupe, which premieres tonight at Su Teatro. “What they…
When author Preethi Burkholder was at a low point in her life, she turned to the library for comfort — and she found it. “I started reading about some of the most amazing women of our time, because I felt I needed to get out of my rut,” says Burkholder…
“How can we get people to engage with great music with fresh energy? How can we present this so that we can leave our prejudices and the stigma of classical music behind and get people engaged in listening and really having a good time?” asks David Rutherford, music director and…
In recent years, Denver artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has often turned to the natural world for inspiration, collaborating with bees on honeycomb sculptures and, last summer, attempting to make music by capturing frequencies emitted by fireflies. Some of these collaborations have yielded breathtaking results, others have crashed and burned, but…
Raising money isn’t easy, which is why Brent Heinze, the organizer of Flame 2014: Colorado Queer Music & Art Festival, tried to think of creative ways to get people to donate money to LGBTQ youth programs. “I wanted to do something that related to the gay community, and there’s such…
The Stanley Film Festival is back for its second year, with no sign of sophomore slump. The fest, which takes place at the historic Stanley Hotel, kicks off with the Colorado premiere of Alexandre Philippe’s Doc of the Dead, a comprehensive look at the zombie phenomenon in pop culture, and…
Teresa Albor has a way of turning all expectations of the art world upside down by asking bold questions about what art is — and, in turn, what an artist is — and who it really serves. That’s part of the motive behind her 100 Paintings in 24 Hours performance,…
“Leaving a pair of pants out can be a tripping hazard; shoes could cause you to fall and chip a tooth,” says Dee Williams. That’s not true in most places, but in the limited space of the 84-square-foot house Williams built and currently resides in, every loose item of clothing…
This New York singer-songwriter has become an inescapable presence on TV, with her songs becoming background music on numerous morning and late-night shows alongside her many appearances and the inescapability of the warm, sweet “The Way I Am” from 2006’s Boys and Girls. Over the last eight years, Michaelson released…
Gustav Holst’s seven-movement The Planets has long been one of the most accessible — and fiddled-with — classical-music works, partly because of the bold pictures painted by its themes, each part describing a different planet in the solar system through imaginative orchestration. And though it appeals to the space-engaged child…
Earlier this year, SOS Outreach and Workplace Resource collaborated to present the Design the Modern Board contest, for which they asked local design and architecture firms and art-school students to come up with unique snowboard art. Working with the simple outline of a classic board, artists and designers were encouraged…
In show-music phenom Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, photographs — specifically, photographs taken by Oliver’s real-life squeeze, photographer Matthew Murphy — set the stage for the show’s denouement. A series of musical vignettes plotted around individual shots, 35MM completes the imagery with vocal star power in big, all-original…
Since January, Lighthouse Writers Workshop has been celebrating literature, keying off The Big Read , a National Endowment for the Arts program designed to encourage people to read for pleasure — not because they have to — and this year highlighting Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. Denver has joined 77 other…
Michael Paglia visits the Denver Art Museum and Robischon Gallery in this week’s review, taking in two solo shows focusing on Chuck Forsman, as well as three other stand-alone exhibits at Robischon that focus on the role of the landscape in contemporary art. Continue reading for photos from all of…
Two years ago, friends Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien realized that they didn’t just enjoy discussing popular culture, but that they also reveled in the High Fidelity spirit of connecting it to personal experiences. Thus the These Things Matter podcast was born, and Gonda and O’Brien began bringing special guests…
In 1971, 34-year-old Sue Miller had a great modeling career, a husband and three children — and breast cancer. While shopping for a prosthetic, Miller was asked if she would model for a fashion show. Angry at first, she decided to take the job, and found other cancer survivors to…
