15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
L’amour Fou opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion after forty-plus years at the helm of the massively important label bearing his name. It’s a stunning performance, flowing from naked confessional (“I have known the false friends of tranquilizers…and emerged dazzled but…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’s much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks before July 4th, this Steven Spielberg-produced, kid-centric 21st-century disaster flick could well hang in at theaters till the tenth anniversary of 9/11 — an event that haunts Super 8 nearly as…
At the start of Grey Gardens, we’re in Noel Coward territory. The setting is an opulent East Hampton mansion, and everyone is elegant, well-spoken, witty and beautifully dressed. This is the home of Edith Bouvier Beale, her ever-absent husband and her father, J.V. “Major” Bouvier, whose wealth keeps the family…
Now that the Buntport Theater Company is winding up its tenth season — filled with remounts of several past shows — it’s time to stop thinking of this troupe as talented kids who got together at Colorado College to create a theater style all their own, and instead consider them…
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears forth a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching…
The gods were smiling on Saturday night, when the food trucks lined up on Larimer Street and Tran and Josh Wills rolled up their Super Ordinary Gallery’s garage door on Microclimates, a finished Kickstarter project by Samuel Schimek and Rob Mack that comprises three environments based on their combined graphic…
First Friday is ostensibly about looking at art, but everyone knows it’s much more about free box wine and eyeballing the artsy weirdos that the monthly art-walk draws out — and while the festivities of course continue throughout the winter, it’s pretty tough to adequately get a freak on when…
Billy Wilder is often credited as one of the golden age of film’s most diverse and greatest directors — he was, after all, nominated for several fistfuls of Academy Awards for films like Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment and more. To celebrate his staggering repertoire, the Mayan is kicking off a…
Deepak Chopra is a new-agey self-help spiritualist whose doctrines are rooted in Indian religion and culture; his son, Gotham Chopra, is an all-American boy who publishes comics and makes movies about superheroes across the ages. Together, they have written a new book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our…
It hasn’t been medically confirmed yet, but I’m pretty sure my pregnant girlfriend left the Boyz II Men show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night approximately 250 percent more pregnant. Just as sexy and possibly even sexier than they were in the ’90s despite being down a Boy/Man (bass…
If you skipped the action in Vail this weekend at the 10th annual Teva Mountain Games, never fear: Students from the Outside Adventure Film School camp held in conjunction with the games will be getting their footage featured online shortly (click here for an hour’s worth of awesome from the…
Tim Tebow knows how to draw a crowd. For his book signing yesterday at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, Tebow signed books before the multitude of about 600 devout fans, and we’re talking very, very devout. It was like Jesus Christ had come down from heaven to sign copies of…
One thing about the Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods’ People’s Fair is that it’s consistent. Now in its 40th year, the event brings out the best in Colorado people-watching, plus, you know, several stages of local entertainment and booths full of tie-dye, made-to-order art and, of course, “turkey” legs. (The consumption…
Well here we are almost a week into June, and all this time you’ve been missing out on all the commemorative months you could be getting drunk for right up until July — for example, did you know June is Dairy Month? No, you did not. More immediately, though, today…
Nobody’s going to argue that the sweet digital SLR you just picked up with the 20 katrillion megapixels and the extra-wide viewfinder is pretty sick, but let’s be honest: You don’t know what the hell about 80 percent of those knobs and switches do, and ever since you accidentally pressed…
Few could have anticipated a decade or two ago, when I was a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, what kind of toll the decline of the Big Three automakers would take on the whole state; back then, it was a solidly middle-class and blue-collar place to be from,…
It’s not everyday you get to see an 8-foot-tall robot made of scrap metal or 2-foot minion playing projecting claymation off of its chest. Luckily, tomorrow, over ten artists will be displaying these and other works in several mediums including sculpture, lights and 2-D art in the robot-themed art show…
Remember a time not long ago, when the Internet was still fun? It was a place for weird exchanges with people across the globe (or in Reno) that you didn’t know IRL (in real life) but connected with via your love for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Maybe you met on…
The Virgin of Guadalupe is such an icon of Mexican culture that it can be easy to forget that she’s also an icon of Mexican Catholicism — and religion and art seldom mix comfortably. That’s somewhat the case with the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s Frida Kahlo and other Superheroes…
Dive in! Red Bull Illume — “The world’s biggest action sports photography competition” — brings its touring exhibition to the Denver Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Galleria tonight through June 12 from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., with massively large-format backlit prints of the top 50 finalists from 2010. Chris Burkard’s…
