Visitors landing at Denver International Airport didn’t get much of a Western welcome this past weekend. Although a new train announcement — recorded by a fast-talking auctioneer — touted the National Western Stock Show and a related exhibit on the bridge leading to concourse A, after the sign at the entrance to the bridge, the exhibit cases were empty.
Tony Diego’s group art exhibit Regresarás (You Will Return) aims to spark a dialogue about international child abduction.
On January 5, Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, announced his resignation after twelve years at the helm of the company. He will remain in the position until early March.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
Discover Denver, a project attempting to tell the city’s history through the stories of significant buildings, launched a new website today replete with an interactive map that gives users the chance to upload stories, photos and documents about the city’s varied structures.
The start of a new year is always a time of reassessment, looking back at the past year while also looking forward to the next. For many of us, these are somber assessments: In 2016 we lost heroes and fought over politics constantly. Much of the time, art was replaced…
Painter Stanley Bell’s kaleidoscopic paintings are on display at Michael Warren Contemporary through January 21.
The legendary Tattered Cover book store is about to start a new chapter with new owners, including Len Vlahos, who has quite a story himself, including early punk bands in New York City and a new young adult book, Life in a Bowbowl.
Leon Gallery has been a team effort since it opened on East 17th Avenue in 2011, but Westword MasterMind Eric Dallimore has served as its curatorial guiding light from the beginning. Working with others to create a gentle and public gallery space that not only takes artistic chances but gives…
William E. (Bill) Potts, a trailblazing Denver sculptor who used salvaged wood, house paint and sometimes crude tools to create vivid figures and tableaux prized by celebrities and schoolkids alike, died last week at the age of eighty.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style in off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
When news broke Tuesday that Carrie Fisher, known best as the actress who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, had died after suffering a major heart attack, staff at the Denver Art Museum laid out two notebooks where patrons visiting “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibit could jot down their tributes to the actress.
Denver Arts and Venues has announced four opportunities to make public art in Denver.
Denver is a do-it-yourself town. The people who headed west after the gold discoveries in 1858 and 1859 were definitely DIY, determined to make new lives for themselves in the great unknown. When their claims didn’t pan out, some shifted course and became merchants, stocking supplies and offering services for…
Artists scramble for funding on Art Tank, a show produced by the Colorado Film School, on Rocky Mountain PBS.
Goodwin Fine Art is hosting an elegant solo show in its main gallery, and a tidy little exhibit in the back, with both on view right up to New Year’s Eve.
Over the years and in its various incarnations, Rule Gallery has mined the rich veins of Colorado art history to showcase the work of established talents while also striking gold by introducing new players to the scene. With its current show, Form & Void, the gallery does both. The exhibit…
Modernist artist Alexander Calder’s abstract sculptures will be showcased at the Denver Botanic Gardens York Street location starting in spring 2017.
Clark Richert has been at his craft for over fifty years. Long acknowledged as a master of Colorado’s contemporary-art scene, in recent years he’s reached a wider audience through shows like West of Center at MCA Denver and Hippie Modernism, jointly organized by the Walker Art Center and the University…
Platteforum’s resident artist led six high school students in getting to know Denver’s homeless population to inspire the multimedia exhibit “Dear Mayor Hancock, What Are You Going to Do?” opening December 17.
The idea first popped up years ago, when Evan Weissman of Warm Cookies of the Revolution was still a member of the close-knit and creative Buntport Theater crew. “We used to talk about building a giant Rube Goldberg machine that would stretch from Boulder to Denver or maybe just from…
Get ready for the arty party of the new year: Tickets for Artopia 2017 go on sale at 10 a.m. today. On Saturday, February 25, our annual celebration of art, culture and fashion will once again fill City Hall, at 1144 Broadway. And this round, we’re bringing style in off…
