It’s a banner week for art in Denver, headlined by the September 18 opening of Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at MCA Denver. But there’s so much more — layers and layers of it — as galleries and local artists celebrate image and process with challenging installations and variations of mixed media…
We all know that Denver is changing quickly, and a lot of those changes are terrible — from the cheesy buildings that are destroying the character of one neighborhood after another to traffic that swings from speedway to gridlock and back again over the course of a few blocks. But…
Maria Knowlton wanted to beautify the Mountain Thrift franchise she runs in Lakewood. But the national Disabled American Veterans organization, which owns the building, thought the street art presented an ugly image for veterans, and now wants her to cover the wall. The mural was painted on July 4 by…
For the past three decades, Marilyn Minter has produced images that are explicit, engaging, and up-close and personal as she explores human sexuality in popular culture while blurring the line between highbrow and lowbrow art. The New York artist’s fascinating career is now being highlighted in a major retrospective opening…
There have been several setbacks since the beginning of this project, but none greater than losing my Ford F250, Bertha. Leaking oil out her tailpipe, she came to her final resting place at the inconvenient and terrifying juncture of I-225 and I-70, right at the bend in the road. Waiting…
Colorado Crush is almost here! The state’s biggest annual celebration of street art will fill RiNo this weekend, and artists are already working on murals in the area. Starting today, you can see them repainting the outdoor canvas along the alleyways from 25th to 32nd streets between Larimer and Walnut streets,…
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. Aurora native Kery Allen filled up her high school schedule with art…
The main entry space at Mai Wyn Fine Art is just big enough to allow for a tidy solo, or as is happening now with Kinesis, an economical duet pairing paintings by Priscilla Fowler with sculptures by Jodie Roth Cooper. It closes tomorrow. Fowler has created spontaneously-done abstracts on Mylar…
Fall brings variety to Denver galleries: From abstract visions and incisive figurative worlds to contemporary folk pieces, there’s art for every taste this weekend. Here’s where to find it. New Works: Heather Patterson and Barbara Sorensen, with Mark Penner Howell, Patricia Finley and Mel Rea in the back gallery Walker…
It used to be that the term “Western art” described work that depicted the scenery and lifestyle associated with the western states — typically, mountains, animals, birds and the people who live here. But in recent years, the definition has been expanded to include modern and contemporary art with Western…
One of the most fascinating artifacts of the Hollywood marketing machine was the film novelization: book versions of some of your favorite movies that started coming out in the late 1970s and hit their peak popularity in the 1980s, that most nostalgic of cinematic decades. Before VCRs, these books were…
Just a week after it was installed in a field near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Jeff Gipe’s monumental sculpture, “Cold War Horse,” has been knocked over and seriously damaged. According to police, a vandal or vandals hit the sculpture with a vehicle over Labor Weekend and then…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is one of this city’s great cultural treasures, and tomorrow, September 10, developers will break ground on a new facility for the museum, at the corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street. Dedicated not only to the preservation and exhibition of the…
Get those vacation requests in and start putting red X’s on your calendar, film fans: The Denver Film Society has announced the dates for the 38th Denver Film Festival. (Starz Entertainment’s title sponsorship contractually ended last year.) The twelve-day fest will unfold November 4 through November 15; the Sie FilmCenter,…
The folks at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts must be popping their corks with pleasure. A major new grant will help transform their physical plant — and fund arts grants to individuals as well. And the second annual Dairy Center Honors event, which will laud six local cultural movers…
It’s hard to keep up with Pirate. Shows run for only a short period of time, the place is only open on the weekends, and the exhibits come and go with almost no notice from the venerable old co-op. Because of that, my shout-out to an impressive pair of solos…
First Friday kicks off the holiday weekend with new exhibits big and small, including Jokes of Nature, an ambitious group show showcasing the art of the grotesque at RedLine, and Denver culture jammer Peter Miles Bergman’s retrospective at Dateline. And then there are these one-of-a-kind gems, lighting up arts districts…
The art of the grotesque has staying power, as RedLine development director Geoffrey Shamos, a scholar of Renaissance art from northern Europe, and local contemporary artist Donald Fodness, who has an affinity for the style in modern times, will both tell you. In the present, the genre in all its…
Fall is coming in faster than a crisp breeze, and so is news of a new season of film festivals, including two beloved fests that just announced their expanded line-ups this week. First up is the 37th Annual Aspen Filmfest, which is counting on the changing leaves to lure filmgoers…
Denver’s third Biennial of the Americas wrapped up its run last weekend as most of the official exhibits closed. Over the past few months, artists, innovators and experts had been charged with exploring the theme of “Now.” But the overall experience left many locals underwhelmed, as have the two previous…
Trine Bumiller: 100 Paintings for 100 Years, now at the McNichols Building, is unquestionably one of the best exhibits of the year — if only for the breadth of Bumiller’s vision. That vision took shape last summer when Bumiller, who lives in Denver, was selected to be an artist-in-residence at…
Plans? We don’t need no stinking plans. From the beginning, the plan for the tiny house has always been in flux. A lot of my initial ideas have been scrapped for lack of practicality – for example, a back door/escape hatch and the idea of having a washer and dryer,…
