If sunny June is making you swoon, you’re certainly not alone. Denverites own their city on balmy summer days, and spend their evenings experiencing the best of what our city’s creative community has to offer.
Natural Grocers has paired with local graffiti artist and entrepreneur Ratha Sok to paint several large murals on the walls of Denver store.
Denver has ranked as the eighth best theater city in the United States.
Whether you choose to live vicariously at a talk through the experiences of two Colorado artists fresh back from the Venice Biennale, head to Boulder for a slate of summer shows at BMoCA or just sniff around to see what’s new in Denver, there’s no shortage of experiences to be had this week, June 7-9, in the local art world.
Artists get back to nature in Out of View at Robischon Gallery, and the way their work has been stitched together through their different if interrelated aesthetic concepts and media indicates that the show was very thoughtfully curated. Once again, Jennifer Doran and Jim Robischon, the gallery’s owners, have put on an exhibit that rivals those at top museums in the area.
For thrifty locals looking for things to do, endless opportunities await you.
Denver is planning a major renovation of the Denver Performing Arts Complex , a project known as the Next Stage. It might want to start with some more helpful signage….especially if it wants to keep those dollars coming in from philanthropists.
Forms evocative of those found in nature connect the paintings and sculptures now on the first floor of the William Havu Gallery, and with growing season just under way, the presentation is perfectly timed. Although there’s an aesthetic seamlessness to the whole endeavor, what we’re actually looking at is three single-artist shows — two dedicated to painters and one to a sculptor.
If you venture out into Denver’s arts and retail districts on the First Friday in June, you’ll get a serious injection of aesthetic politics and have a whole lot of fun. Consider these five openings as you look for places to start your journey.
Fine artworks often begin on paper, as a sketch, or perhaps a quick study scrawled on a napkin. But what happens when that most basic and malleable surface then becomes the transformational medium? Paper, with a versatility that can both guide the nut of a brief idea and carry the…
Denver’s all about the outdoors: jaunts to the mountains, Red Rocks shows, brewery patios, urban festivals and gallery walks.But there is no shame in staying home or cozying up in a coffee shop and surfing online.
Bobbi Walker, gallery director of Walker Fine Art, which just celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, has traditionally dedicated the front of her space to two solo shows; a painter would take over the walls and a sculptor would fill the floors.
Meow Wolf is notifying the Denver recipients for a total of $54,000 in arts grants for DIY venues and organizations: $20,000 from the City of Denver, and $34,000 from Meow Wolf’s own fund.
In presenting Mi Tierra at this time, the Denver Art Museum is not only promoting tolerance and acceptance of a community currently being stigmatized by some, but also demonstrating that Mexican-American art is one of the strongest cultural forces in our region right now.
Cirque du Soleil puts on a good show. Performers plummet from fifty feet up in the air. Flowers blossom from elaborate costumes. Even the show’s technical director Mike Newnum says he loses his breathe when he watches what the team does.
Ratio Beerworks, which opened at 2920 Larimer Street in February 2015, earned two Best of Denver awards this year, including top honors for Best Brewery Entertainment. And thanks to some fast work by the RiNo Art District, the City of Denver, the State of Colorado and Ratio itself, the shows will go on this weekend, despite a liquor license snafu that had the taproom at the brewery closed for ten days.
On the night I watched Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a musical based on the 1994 Australian movie, the audience was irrepressible.
Reddog Rudy’s grandmother gave him his first lowrider car, a 1969 Chevrolet Impala, when he was about to learn to drive at 15.
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts, which houses live and recorded musical performances in an abandoned water tank in western Colorado, won the first ever Preservation Edge Award from Denver-based Colorado Preservation Inc.
Bored and broke Denverites needn’t hide away. Fun can be had for $10 and under all weekend long.
Artist residencies inspired two back-to-back solos at Michael Warren Contemporary.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, painters and photographers came to the American West to depict the majestic scenery. Amazingly, the landscape tradition is still relevant a century and a half later. For proof, see Don Stinson: What Lies Between, a solo now on view at the David B. Smith Gallery.
