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…
After providing community health and services in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood for decades, Servicios de la Raza moved this week to a new home at 3131 West 14th Avenue. To do so, the organization had to sell its buildings at 41st Avenue and Tejon Street, which meant the removal of the…
Tuesday, November 11, is Veterans Day — but around the globe it’s known as Remembrance Day, the holiday created to mark the end of World War I, which formally concluded at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1919. “World War I was supposed to…
Discovering and Interpreting the West The Arvada Center 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard It was the scenic Rocky Mountains that first attracted artists to Colorado 150 years ago, and paintings and photos of the landscape are the works that laid the foundation for the rapidly developing art scene we have here now…
Colorado artist Jerry Jaramillo was devastated when he found out that his mural, “Primavera,” had been sandblasted and removed from a brick wall at the corner of 41st Avenue and Tejon Street in Sunnyside, where it had been for more than thirty years. “It felt like I lost a child…
Yesterday my friend Philip Spangler crammed all the belongings he came with plus one of Lawrence Argent’s iconic blue bear statuettes into his Dodge Neon and hit the road to his new home in Chicago. Along with him rode my intern, Nico Larsen who is off to check out 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. Oregon-based artists Mandie and Nate Flemming love the Denver art scene so…
Casey Hartnett gave up a career in finance to travel the world without a plan — just guided by his spirit. “If something felt good, then that’s the path I chose,” Hartnet says. “I just kept following beautiful things. If something made sense, then that’s where I would go.” Through…
Yinfinity: New Works by Dmitri Obergfell Gildar Gallery 82 South Broadway The Gildar Gallery is a modest, nearly anonymous South Broadway storefront with minimal exhibition space, but to his credit, director Adam Gildar continues to present a schedule of thoughtful shows, even if some of them aren’t entirely successful. That’s…
