Something’s brewing in RiNo. The River North Art District has seen a lot of change lately, including a massive new mural just created in the corridor between Walnut Street and Brighton Boulevard on 38th Avenue. Earlier this year, Blue Moon Brewing Company opened its taproom at 3750 Chestnut Place, an industrial,…
At the Collector’s Choice fundraiser on Thursday, December 8, at the Denver Art Museum, director Christoph Heinrich formally announced that the museum would undertake a more than $150 million rehab of the North Building. He also revealed that husband-and-wife benefactors J. Landis Martin and Sharon Martin had pledged to contribute…
Through the holidays, Walker Fine Art is presenting Juxtaposed, a group show with an unusual mix of styles: It includes a fairly cogent collection of abstract work by five artists — and works by a single contemporary realist set improbably in their midst. The abstract pieces begin in the double-height…
On December 10 and 17, walk into another dimension via an immersive art exhibit that seduces the five senses.
Get tattooed for a good cause at All Sacred Tattoo shop this Saturday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. as they host their final Tattoos For Good event of the year where 100% of proceeds will go to three amazing, local charities..
One of the things that the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center consistently does well is dedicate exhibits to significant regional artists. The current case in point is All I Ever Wanted: James Surls and Charmaine Locke, a show featuring work by artists who live in the Roaring Fork Valley, near…
In preparation for the 1977 NASA launch of the Voyager 1 space probe, Carl Sagan’s scientific team member and fiancee Anne Druyan was tasked with imprinting symbols essential to humanity on a disc of gold that might, if found by some civilization light-years away, help explain who we are here…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like December, which is why this week’s 21 best events list is packed with all things cold weather, including a hockey game, the Holiday Flea and a screening of It’s a Wonderful Life. Keep reading for more things to do this week and beyond!…
Art doesn’t simply reflect reality – it shapes reality. Here are the 25 best murals of 2016 in Colorado.
About a year ago, Colorado’s Doug Kacena came up with a provocative idea for an exhibit: He would paint over other artists’ paintings employing his own style, while those other artists painted over his works in their own respective styles. It was an unusual move, even if there were art-historical…
Like the movie series that inspired it, Star Wars and the Power of Costume is proving a big hit at the Denver Art Museum, with out-of-this-world attendance figures. But the exhibit is about more than star power; it “basically is looking at form and function,” says Saul Sopoci Drake, exhibitions…
In the beginning — of the last decade, at least — 314 East 13th Avenue was the home of Bender’s, and featured a large mural of Johnny Cash, smoking a cigarette and casting a man side-eye toward oncoming traffic. When the venue changed hands and became Quixote’s True Blue, Cash…
So, this is where we are. Like everyone else on the left, I have been attempting to process the results of the November 8 election and adjust to the idea of the new America we will be living in. But my immediate thoughts in the shock of the post-election haze…
Nathan Carter had a revelation when, as a middle-schooler, he visited the Whitney Museum and saw the creative and whimsical feat of imagination that is Calder’s Circus. “I remember being confused,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘Wait, this is how I played with my toys. What was this doing in a…
Move your car, Donald. This isn’t a real parking sign; it is an artistic statement in the form of a wheat paste. “No Trump Anytime” has appeared in two locations in the Mile High City since the election November 9. The satirical version of a no-parking sign is an original piece by Plastic Jesus…
Works on paper — watercolors, drawings and prints — are the neglected stepchildren of paintings and typically considered their inferior. So it’s interesting to see that Clyfford Still, an artist known exclusively for his paintings, also used ink, watercolor, pastels and paint, all of them applied to paper, as an…
Denver may not have seen any snow, but there’s been a flurry of activity around town. In fact, the metro area is buried in great events — large and small, intimate and extravagant, upscale and downhome. Keep reading for the 21 best events in Denver this week. Tuesday, November 15…
The Stanley Film Festival, which attracted horror fans and industry professionals to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, is canceled for 2017 – and perhaps permanently. After a three-year run, from 2013 to 2015, the “Sundance of horror films” was put on hiatus in 2016 after the iconic hotel, which…
Cold-calling exhibition venues isn’t usually part of a curator’s job when creating an art show, but that’s exactly what University of Colorado Boulder art professor George Rivera did when he jumped departments in the ’90s after twenty years of teaching sociology. It started with his idea of shaking things up…
Aspen, along with the nearby towns of Snowmass, Carbondale, Woody Creek and Basalt, is one of Colorado’s centers for contemporary art. Although most of the artists in that community rarely show here, that’s starting to change. The latest example is Basalt’s Richard Carter, who has the lead role in Mandalas:…
The Vance Kirkland Studio has a new home. On Sunday, November 6, the historic studio once used by Denver Art Museum co-founder Henry Read moved a few blocks west, from its longtime home at 1311 Pearl Street to the corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street.
Though it’s 106 years old, the Stanley Hotel continues to fascinate tourists (about 430,000 a year, to be exact) and locals alike. As the inspiration for Stephen King’s best-selling novel The Shining, it lives in pop-culture infamy. It’s also supposedly haunted and has a controversial owner who, for better or for worst, capitalizes on its allure. Brush up on your history and learn more about the hotel’s future in our recent coverage.
