A door carries symbolic weight. It is the way we close out others, it is the signifier of home, it creates a suggestion of privacy and a feeling of safety. A door defines our place in the world. Yesterday was the day that, with the installation of the door, the…
By now everyone has heard that Bill Cosby — the beloved Dr. Huxtable from the 1980s hit sitcom “The Cosby Show,” and before that, tennis coach Alexander Scott on “I Spy,” from the ’60s — has been publicly accused by at least ten women, including Lou Ferrigno’s wife, of sexually…
It all began with Artist Trading Cards. Back in 2004, local painter Lisa Luree had already started selling her full-size paintings online when customers began asking if she made Artist Trading Cards, those two-and-a-half by three-and-a-half-inch pieces that artists generally traded. Luree asked her online art community if other artists…
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. “For a guy my age, I have a lot of energy,” says…
There’s no shortage of fun for comics lovers in Denver, but local creators can get lost in the shuffle at some of the bigger cons. Not so at the Cowtown Comics Fest, hosted annually by Kilgore Books and happening Sunday, November 23 at Morey Middle School. Aside from John Porcellino,…
Urban Grotesque Point Gallery 765 Santa Fe Drive The current solo at Point Gallery features work by David Menard done over the past few years. Though Menard uses photography — both his own and appropriated photos — he was trained in drawing and works digitally, having never used a darkroom…
Bob Knox and Michael Clapper William Havu Gallery 1040 Cherokee Street Don Quade & Brandon Reese Walker Fine Art 300 West 11th Avenue Considering the nature of physics as it relates to rooms, it’s easy to understand why gallery directors like to pair a painter, whose works can cover the…
The tiny house was supposed to be showcased this past weekend at ArtDenver, and even though getting it to the second floor of the Colorado Convention Center sounded challenging, I was thankful to receive the invitation. So at the beginning of the week I scrambled to get the door in…
Mark your calendar for Saturday, February 21, when Artopia 2015 will fill City Hall with art, culture and fashion. Our presale for the event starts this morning, and you’ll find some new twists added to Westword’s annual arts extravaganza…. See also: Artopia 2014 — the Artistic Lights Were Bright on…
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival decided to bring the summer event’s tried-and-true formula indoors this past weekend for the inaugural ArtDenver at the Colorado Convention Center. For extra glitz, fashion took center-stage at the first night of ArtDenver, which mixed runway shows and designer vendors with artist booths. Photographer Brandon…
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. “I’m inspired by so many things,” says Ashley Joon, who then lists…
The spirit of Burning Man and Apogaea will rise in the Rockies when the Telluride Fire Festival debuts in that town in January. On Friday night, Denver burners and other pyromaniacs got a taste of things to come at Crash 45, where the crowds, some in fire-inspired costumes, beat the…
Tonight Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department will honor fifteen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making during the 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony at The Studio Loft of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “This year’s winning projects are phenomenal examples of what makes Denver…
There are only a few days left before the end of the official run of Hong Seon Jang: waxed/waned at David B. Smith Gallery. I say “official” because the show will be on view through the end of December by appointment. Born in Korea, where he earned his BFA at…
On Thursday, November 13, the American Institute of Graphic Arts Colorado and the Denver Art Museum Design Council will host Chaircuterie, a celebration of design and a fundraiser for AIGA’s mentorship and scholarship programs and the Denver Art Museum’s Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics. More than a hundred chair-inspired…
The tiny house has made its maiden voyage. Invited to collaborate on a project at the Wittemyer Ranch overlooking Boulder by curators Petra Sertic and Alvin Gregorio , Philip Spangler and I decided that, though it was not necessarily an artistic collaboration in the truest sense, using the tiny house…
Hundreds of people have taken books from the Denver Public Library and never returned them, racking up so many fees that showing their face at the library is embarrassing — and pointless, since $5 in fines means you can’t borrow additional books. But even if all is not forgiven, the…
The crowds came out to Santa Fe Drive and other Denver arts districts on the first Friday of November, just as they do on every first Friday of the year. But because it was also the kickoff for Denver Arts Week, there may have been a few people experiencing it…
To call Chihuly, which closes November 30 after several months at the Denver Botanic Gardens, a success, would be something of an understatement. Made up of Dale Chihuly’s monumental glass sculptures nestled into the picturesque landscaping of the grounds, the show has nearly doubled last year’s attendance numbers at the…
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. Tylor Belshe is a near-native: He came to Colorado during his sophomore…
It just got easier to laugh in Denver. Kayvan Khalatbari, local ganjaprenuer, owner of three Sexy Pizza spots and godfather of the Sexpot series of comedy shows, just launched a new website that ties together many of the various strands that make up Denver’s burgeoning comedy scene. The site, SexpotComedy.com,…
Mike McClung, the director of Michael Warren Contemporary, curated Drips, Drops, Pours and Spins, a show featuring four abstract artists who all use the liquid and viscous quality of pigments to create non-objective compositions, the subjects of which are the pigments themselves. See also: Review: Discovering and Interpreting the West…
