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…
Month of Photography 2015 powers on this weekend, with new shows opening in Curtis Park and around town. Meanwhile, Denver favorite Ravi Zupa, an old-world master in twenty-first-century skin, will introduce his fifth exhibition at Black Book Gallery. Analog: Alternative Processes and the Evocative Range of Photography Mike Wright Gallery…
Collin Parson, the exhibition manager and curator at the Arvada Center, always seems to come up with shows that both highlight the local scene and push the art dialogue of the community forward. That’s certainly the case with rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art, an impressive two-part group show, along…
The city’s mascots — the dreaded Dinger with his belly still hanging out, the Big Blue Bear looking strangely small, and a few more walking fake fur balls in need of a good vacuuming — all gathered around Mayor Michael Hancock at Monday’s grand-opening festivities for the new, high-tech Tourism…
On Friday, March 13, the Sie FilmCenter will present a special fortieth anniversary screening of Ken Russell’s 1975 phantasmagorical musical Tommy. Based on the “rock opera” by The Who, the film was a mind scramble of an adaptation of the band’s own wild concert tour for the piece, which told the…
Spring has sprung at Denver International Airport, where “Denver Lily,” by local artist Ted Davis, is blooming in the center of the Jeppesen Terminal — on the very spot where the misfiring “Mountain Mirage” once stood, and some Audi tent igloos were installed until five days ago. The flower, made…
My relationship to carpentry is complicated. My dad was a master carpenter. He built everything from custom, hand-carved gun stocks to a beautiful easel for my 24th birthday. I grew up with him building dune buggies, sewing fringed buckskin suits with antler buttons from deer he killed himself, and putting custom…
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. Thane Benson studied illustration at Syracuse University before computers ruled the world…
Photographs are our journal of life, manipulated through a myriad of personal lenses and rendered by technology and technique. They capture moments and unfold fantastical vignettes, retell history, bring us to tears and leave us breathless with beauty. That’s why we have a Month of Photography — to celebrate artists…
Editor’s note: Indie Design Blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she’ll be sharing some of her favorite homes, by taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Betsy Wareing Steele creates dioramas that are to die…
David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo is presenting Constructed Histories, an ambitious multimedia show that was put together by guest curator William Morrow. That Morrow has come up with a museum-quality exhibit should come as no surprise, as he was formerly a curator of contemporary art at the Denver Art…
The funny thing about this entire crazy Mayday Experiment? I’m an introvert. Now, no one who knows me ever wants to believe this, but I swear it’s true. I’ve managed to get past my awkwardness and shyness over the years with a lot of practice, but deep inside, I’m just…
Not So Far From Here, at Michael Warren Contemporary, is made up of works by three artists – Jeff Baldus, Paul Sisson and Meghan Wilbar – each presented in depth. Baldus is represented by some exquisitely done ceramic pots, but it’s his sculptures of eggs and tree trunks that provide…
One of the sweetest surprises to pop out of last November’s Starz Denver Film Festival was Davey B. Gravey’s Tiny Cinema, a repurposed cargo trailer that would innocently hide outside of festival events, enticing film lovers to enter its quaint and cozy confines. Inside the space you’d find four theater seats,…
