Visual Arts

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to Student “Failures”

Tickets go on sale for the annual Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, DINK, today, January 24, at noon. Founded by the team that started Denver ComicCon, the event spotlights the most innovate artists working on the fringes of the graphic novel and comic-book universe.

As a nomadic contemporary art museum, Black Cube and its executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell have already proven that they’re here to “turn the idea of a museum on its head,” pushing limits in the contemporary art world. With the announcement of the 2017 artist fellows, Stell is…

When Michael “Eyedea” Larsen passed away in his sleep, on October 16, 2010, the world lost one of its great musical talents.

Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday it would not to join dozens of art institutions and hundreds of artists who went on strike, on inauguration day, attempting to shut down the art world in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

DIY stands for “do it yourself” — not “pay a pro to do it for you.” Yet that sums up a Denver planner’s advice to DIY artists, many broke, all wanting to avoid a fire like the one that burned down Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse, killing 36 young people, in December.

Kelsey Montague is an uplifting Colorado artist whose murals can be found sprinkled around the Denver metro area. She just completed her first street-art piece of 2017, in the RiNo Art District: wings made of red, black, white and patterned hearts that she hopes will unite the city and country during cultural turmoil. #WhatUnitesUs is on the east-facing wall of Il Posto, at 26th and Larimer streets.

As a curator, Daisy McGowan is interested in going beneath the surface of every work she places in a group exhibition.

Donald Fodness has been seeing double in the studio, from the looks of Duets, a series of drawings and bronze sculptures comprising his inaugural solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo.

Get ready for Artopia 2017, which will celebrate Denver’s street art with four areas dedicated to some of the Mile High City’s most iconic avenues: Larimer, Santa Fe, Colfax and Federal.

The Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities is a little jewel box set among the behemoth buildings of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Though small, it has a big job: to build a bridge between the sciences that dominate the campus and the largely neglected arts. The Fulginiti’s…

Colorado Springs’ U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn spent some of last week yanking down a painting by a Missouri high-school student that depicted a cop as a pig. Today, the painting, a part of the Congressional Art Competition, came down for good, in response to Lamborn and other lawmakers’ criticisms of the piece and House rules.

A new video shows the Game of Thrones live concert experience with Ramin Djawadi.

Meow Wolf could roar in Denver one day. A crew from the Santa Fe arts sensation was in the Mile High City this week, scouting locations and exploring the local arts scene, a mission that included sitting in on the Amplify Arts Denver town hall on January 10. .

Jay and Jerry Jaramillo, father-and-son artists, will represent Santa Fe Drive at Artopia 2017.

Organizing faculty shows can be challenging, since the pieces involved are often tied together by nothing more than the fact that they were created by artists who live and work right in town. Collective Nouns, the current show at the Center for Visual Art, was a particular challenge: Metropolitan State…

Artists thrive within limitations — at least, that’s one theory. A Wheat Ridge High School club’s request for proposals from local artists on how to celebrate the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — by decorating local traffic signal boxes wrapped in graffiti-resistant vinyl — is riddled with limitations. Among them: the artists won’t be paid.

Bronx-born nonagenarian Dorothy Tanner and her late husband Mel Tanner began building Plexiglas light sculptures in the hip ’60s.

If you haven’t already polished your cowboy boots for the National Western Stock Show, dust ’em off for an exhibit honoring Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Or check out one of the many art  shows, plays, benefits and food events delights happening between Tuesday, January 10, and Monday, January 16…

The Colorado Photographic Arts Center moves in 2017 from RiNo to a larger space at 1070 Bannock Street in the Golden Triangle.

The group will host a meeting on Tuesday to address the needs of the DIY community.