The return of winter be damned, First Friday is going down tonight all over metro Denver. Grab your coat: Here are a few hot new shows and events to ward off the chill. Margaret Neumann: Inscapes Macky Gallery, CU-Boulder campus April 3 through June 7 Opening reception and expert talk:…
Collage jumps the boundaries of photography, sometimes using ready-made images or layered photographic techniques in unexpected juxtapositions to make a statement. Its rightful place as part of Month of Photography 2015 will be made clear this weekend, when Denver Collage Club comes late to the party at Robert Anderson Gallery. In…
One of the many trends in contemporary photography is the creation of miniature scenes that are captured in photos that make the minuscule subjects look full-sized. This is partly what’s behind Ground Waters: Photography by Liz Hickok, a large and impressive show at Michael Warren Contemporary that is part of…
Our Ouija board startling rattling good and early this morning with another transmission from beyond. Following an earlier first wave release earlier, the spirits were revealing much of the program for the 2015 Stanley Film Festival, taking place April 30 through May 3 at the historic and haunted Stanley Hotel in…
Today Eric Suzanne will release Riding SideSaddle*, an open-source, non-linear novel published locally by Springgun Press. To mark the occasion, Suzanne has gathered three bands – including his own, Gorilla Teacup – to perform at Syntax Physic Opera starting at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in an interdisciplinary performance that integrates…
Since it’s set to close near the end of the month, this is the last call for Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, the blockbuster show that’s been running at MCA Denver since Halloween. Curated by MCA director Adam Lerner, Myopia is the latest example of Lerner’s interest in exploring the history of…
Our March weather may have come in like a lion and out like a lamb but our April film events are coming in like a tiger and look like they’ll keep coming like an elephant stampede. Mark your calendars for a month full of festivals, special guests and some really…
The Stanley Film Festival — our winner of the Best Film Festival in the Best of Denver 2015 — has sent a transmission from “the other side,” detailing the first wave of special guests who’ll be making the trek up to the haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park at the end…
For its contribution to the Month of Photography, which straddles March and April, Ironton Gallery is presenting 50 Years in Your Face: Photographs by Donna Rae Altieri. Though best known as a successful businesswoman and arts advocate, it turns out that Altieri is also a photographer. Altieri began taking photos…
On my birthday this week, someone threw a rock through Tiny’s largest window. The rock, only about two and a half inches across, went through both panes and bounced off the opposite wall twenty feet away, leaving a constellation of sparkling glass shards and a disappointing comment on humanity. I…
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. Bodhi means enlightenment in Buddhism, and so it’s a fitting name for…
Spanning decades of spinning records, Motown: The Musical hits town on Tuesday, March 31. The touring Broadway show pours out the story of music legend Barry Gordy, who went from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul. The brainchild of Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum (Rent, Avenue Q) and Gordy himself, Motown…
A seminal figure in the world of cartoons and illustration, Lynda Barry has been creating award-winning comic strips, books and graphic novels for the better part of four decades. Along making those contributions to popular culture, Barry is also a teacher; she’s currently an associate professor in interdisciplinary creativity at…
You don’t have to wait until First Friday to see new art in Denver — there are plenty of shows up right now that include thought-provoking content that’s just plain beautiful. Here are a few exhibits opening tonight to get you started. Joel Swanson: A.K.A. David B. Smith Gallery March…
After wedding photographer Dylan Burr fell in love with the nineteenth-century art of wet-plate collodion portraiture, he sought a platform wherein he could continue to experiment with the old-school images, but for a humanitarian purpose. He found one in the Neighbours Project, a collaboration with Denver homeless shelter the St…
Since the late ’70s, the work of Gary Panter — painter, comic artist and designer — has been a fixture of the counterculture. From creating the iconic logo for punk band The Screamers and illustrating album covers for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Germs and Frank Zappa to designing…
The Voices: Women + Film Festival concluded its fifth year this past Sunday, after a week of films, guests and discussions celebrating National Women’s Month at the Sie FilmCenter and presented by the Denver Film Society. Today, the festival’s organizers announced the winners of their audience voting for Best Narrative…
R. Tyler Christopherson’s upcoming exhibit, The Good ol’ Days, celebrates – and complicates – our collective desire and nostalgia for “good times”: periods of comfort, security and satisfaction that may exist more in our imaginations than in reality. Christopherson will employ an interactive mixed-media installation to evoke and link three…
Boulder Arts Week will bring bold fare to venues around that town this weekend, from a homegrown, one-man tour de force at the Dairy Center for the Arts to a complex and completely original performance-in-progress at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Meanwhile, Town Hall in Littleton just wants to…
Denver’s hemispheric Biennial of the Americas is always catching flak in retrospect, but the team programming this year’s event, now in its third incarnation, have already been hard at at work for the past year conceiving a Biennial with lasting power and a theme that couldn’t be more relevant: Now!…
The central question at the root of everything I’m doing now: What is a home? This question raises others: What does it mean to have a home? To build a home? What does one need to live? When I first conceived of building this tiny house and taking off on…
“Boulder is a beautiful city that is focused on the outdoors, and beer, and food. And there’s a lot of really great people who don’t know how much really great work in the arts there is to go to in their town,” says Emily K. Harrison, who is spearheading Boulder…
