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…
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. Technically, Andrew Ferdig’s real trade is classical percussion — that’s what the…
Renowned independent filmmaker Noah Baumbach has often been compared to his peer Wes Anderson, and even co-wrote two of his adventures; The Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr. Fox. But where Anderson presents a twee trajectory that edges on fantastical, Baumbach has always kept his dramatic comedies rooted deeply in harsh, but…
One of the most auspicious filmmaking debuts in decades was Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, the 1999 film that quickly established Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter as an expert in cinematic renderings of little girls lost. The haunting film, which screens Monday, March 23 at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of…
The first-ever Denver Youth Poet Laureate will be chosen tonight, and along with confirmation that the winner has mastered the spoken word, the title comes with an official platform for the young artist to speak for the community. Five finalists have been chosen from several dozen who’d applied, submitting poetry…
March continues with a rush of new shows, including several Month of Photography entries and a summer-ready exhibition presented by RedLine at the McNichols Building. Here are a few suggestions of where to head this weekend to see and be seen. Cody Day and Brenda LaBier Sync Gallery March 20…
A Tented Sky: New Works by Kristen Hatgi Sink, at Gildar Gallery, is one of several choice solos associated with Denver’s Month of Photography, which straddles March and April. The design of the show is spare and elegant, providing the ideal setting for Sink’s visually rich, oversized digital pigment prints…
A folk tale, at the cozy Mai Wyn Fine Art, is a solo exhibit concerning artist Bryan Andrews’s longtime interest in examining myths. He does so here with simple and rugged abstract sculptures, as well as with paintings and prints. The show functions as an installation, though it is, in…
It’s easy to forget what I’m doing and why. Though I walk by the tiny house several times a day, the winter months have meant less good weather on which to work on it, and fewer daylight hours, too. But more than that, the realities of the financial struggle that…
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. “Every day my life counts, not just the ones when I’m with…
