You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Multimedia artist Aimee Fink’s Year of the Buffalo – on display at Kaladi…
Rising stars and established mentors in the regional arts world will be on display this weekend at local galleries, and if you’re into tattoos — and who isn’t? — there’s a show for that, too. Theresa Anderson and Dayana Ruiz: Plus Two Dateline Gallery and Phillip J. Steele Gallery April…
Select Prints From the Collection, at Michael Warren Contemporary, is part of the Mo’Print mania that’s raging in town this month. The show includes prints by big-name contemporary artists that were collected by the late William van Straaten, who was an art dealer for more than forty years. Van Straaten’s…
Escapism, now up at Leon Gallery, features recent pieces by Tim Schwartz, an up-and-coming L.A.-based artist. At first glance, the works in the show look like neo-minimalist abstracts, but upon closer examination, it’s apparent that they are actually depictions of nature. The dark rectangles that make up the extremely spare constructivist…
The performing arts get eclectic this weekend around Denver with a b-girl jam, a one-man tour de force that’s also a birthday celebration, and a smorgasbord of Asian-American arts. All are don’t-miss events; here are the details: Queenz of Hip-Hop Seventh Annual Jam Performance by Cypher Adikts The B-Boy Factory,…
Since the late ’80s, husband-and-wife artists Tracy Felix and Sushe Felix, who share Land Rhythms at William Havu Gallery, have followed different, if thoroughly intertwined, aesthetic paths. For many years, they’ve both been interested in conveying the Western landscape in non-traditional ways, though their individual works are clearly distinct. Tracy’s…
The Lantern Fest will take off from Denver (or the Colorado National Speedway in Dacano, which is close enough) for the first time on April 23. The event is so hot it sold out fast, but people still have burning questions about how it will all go down. Here are answers to ten…
Reading Color: Art Forum 1965-2015, a must-see exhibit at Gildar Gallery, features recent conceptual abstractions by emerging Denver artist Andrew Jensotter. Gallery director Adam Gildar first saw his work at Vertigo; this is Jensotter’s second solo at Gildar. On one level, the large square panels that make up the show function as classic…
One of the great things about living in a place like Denver for much of your life is that you wind up with friendships that span twenty or thirty years by the time you’re my age. And sometimes, those friends’ lives are parallel and you find yourself in similar places…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Bonnie Gregory grew up outside of Philadelphia, in “Mennonite country,” surrounded by lots…
Art is back in the news with the recent KKK/cop piece hanging at the Wellington Webb building. But there have been plenty of other controversial pieces of public art — and most of them don’t just disappear. We just listed the Ten Most Controversial Pieces of Public Art in Denver…
New art is blooming all over town, so don’t be an April fool — get out and celebrate the season and support your local artists. ImPressed The Art Gym Now through April 21 Art Gym shows some Mo’Print mojo in April with ImPressed, a national printmaking show juried by the…
The Best of Denver 2016 just hit the streets, but we already have a contender for the Best New Building in 2017… The Kirkland Museum, one of the city’s most beloved art institutions, will be closing its Capitol Hill home at 1311 Pearl Street on May 1 and will reopen…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
It’s no joke: On Friday, April 1, the Denver Tool Library is turning one — and hosting a birthday party to celebrate. In recognition of a year’s worth of achievements — including selling more than 400 memberships — the tool-sharing organization is inviting everyone in the community to have a…
MCA Denver likes to mash up things that don’t necessarily belong together, and so last week’s Black Sheep Friday social feted both Mad Max and Purim with Max-inspired costumes, live klezmer music and those all-important cheap drinks on the rooftop. Photographer Ken Hamblin documented the artsy party. Now see the…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” Art, of course, is in the eye of the beholder…
The beautiful underworld of modern comics — from wee zines to big graphic novels — was open to the public over the weekend at the inaugural DINK, an art-centric comics convention where fans and artists from Colorado and across the nation could shoot the breeze and share their obsessions. All…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. For new collectors, gallery pieces can be cost-prohibitive. Colorado artists Blair Hamill,…
We were flooded with entries for our fourth annual Westword Comics Contest. The ten winners were published in the March 24 issue (you can see them here, too), but we thought you’d be interested in seeing some of the other entries. This is a funny business!…
On this holiday weekend, you couldn’t find a more appropriate way to spend Saturday afternoon than at Building Bridges with the Muslim Community, an event dedicated to fighting the ignorance and fear of Islamophobia and learning about Islam and the Muslim Community. The event, sponsored by Mile High Japanese American Citizens…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
