Aimee Fink’s Mixed-Media Buffalo Stampede Into Kaladi’s

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…

Gallery Sketches: Four New Shows in Denver April 8-10

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…

Tim Schwartz Creates Art from Kindle Screens in Escapism at Leon Gallery

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…

Playbill: Dance, Theater and Performance in Denver April 7-10

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,…

Review: Tracy and Sushe Felix Share Land Rhythms at Havu

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 Mayday Experiment: Bobby Bassman’s Bungalow

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…

Will the Kirkland Museum Be the Best New Building of 2017?

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 Tool Library Hosts First Birthday Party

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…

Photos: Mad Max Meets Klezmer at MCA Denver’s Black Sheep Friday

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…

Ten Most Controversial Pieces of Public Art in Denver

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…

Join in Building Bridges With Colorado’s Muslim Community on Saturday

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…