Frothy brews, barbecue and the shiny pearl snaps on smartly tailored Western shirts from Denver’s own Rockmount Ranch Wear brought the night to life on Friday at the McNichols Building, where Imbibe Denver threw Slue Foot Sue’s Shindig, a party with a backdrop of contemporary Western art. Photographer Scott Lentz…
In a town with such an active co-op and alternative art scene, you don’t want to limit your gallery adventures to First Fridays — because you’d miss out on a lot of great art, including shows opening this weekend. Keep reading for a trio of exhibits worth seeing. See also:…
Just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Denver Film Society and America SCORES Denver are teaming up with the Three Lions pub and SOCCER ELECTRIC to hold Denver’s first annual World Football Film Festival. The festival, which is set for June 5 to June 8 at…
The English translation of Los Phantazmas is “The Ghosts,” says artist Carlos Fresquez, explaining his art collective’s name, which evokes the invisible work that many Latinos, Mexicans and Chicanos perform in the United States. The four-person collective emerged in the mid-’90s, disbanded around the turn of the century and has…
Michael Paglia visits the Clyfford Still Museum in this week’s art review, taking in a recreated show based on an exhibit that Still himself organized in 1959 at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, New York. The exhibition marked the first time he was able to fully envision what it would be…
On April 26, professional and amateur filmmakers alike joined in the “One Day in Denver” project, part of “One Day on Earth: Your Day. Your City. Your Future.” During this participatory media event, they documented the answers to ten questions on the future of Denver; meanwhile, filmmakers in eleven other…
The Clyfford Still Museum is one of Denver’s great cultural assets, but it’s also the kind of place that most people feel they only need to see once. Museum director Dean Sobel told me that 80 percent of visitors are new to the institution, coming for their first time, with…
For (Residency): Process to Consumption, a new work-in-progress exhibition opening this week at the McNichols Building, Lisa Gedgaudas wanted to make people uncomfortable — in a good way. As program director for Create Denver, Gedgaudas is the brains behind this project, one that unites artists with art enthusiasts to create…
It’s the little things that help a community thrive, and that’s where ArtPlant artist residencies fit into Denver’s scene, spreading the wealth by creating an atmosphere of good will and collaboration. Last fall the program’s first resident, Kansas City installation artist Rashawn Griffin, took full advantage of the ArtPlant offer,…
Last summer, Ivar Zeile and Ryan Pattie of Denver Digerati brought a quiet revolution to the Denver Theatre District’s giant LED screens: Between the ads and promos most often seen flashing on the screens, Zeile and Pattie’s curated series of short Friday Flash programs traded commerce for cutting-edge digital art…
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. Rita Conway had been coming to Colorado to camp every summer since…
Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe was in full bloom on the First Friday in May, with pleasant weather and lots of action indoors and outdoors all along the drive. With Space Gallery debuting its high-tech new space and food vendors and crowds filling the street, there were ample opportunities…
First Friday comes but once a month, with an embarrassment of gallery riches: fresh exhibitions, pop-up parties, people-watching, performances and great art. Organized navigation isn’t always necessary to have a good time on First Friday; still, it doesn’t hurt to have some direction — especially since there are some don’t-miss…
Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would…
As a Denver neighborhood with a rich architectural history, University Park is home to houses of all shapes, sizes and legacies. This Sunday, May 4, five homes in the historic area will open their doors to the public for the University Park Home Tour, an afternoon event that benefits University…
Nobody knows how deep the talent goes in our local youth slam-poetry community better than Denver poet and youth mentor Ken Arkind. He’s been on the side of young poets — and at their side as they represent Denver at the national Brave New Voices youth slam competition on 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. Welcome to Naomi Haverland’s delightfully quirky world, where the art and the…
After being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, Dee Williams decided she needed a big change. And she accomplished it by going small. Williams built her own 84-square-foot house, where she resides in Olympia, Washington. She’ll be at the Tattered Cover LoDo tonight to read from and discuss her new book…
The Berkeley neighborhood went back to the ’80s this weekend when Totally Tennyson took over the Tennyson Street strip from 35th to 46th avenues for a street crawl and party that ended with live music and a high-stakes costume contest at the Oriental Theater. Photographer Marissa Shevins brought back these…
London-based artist Teresa Albor is not-so-subtly interested in turning over the stuffy model of art as a commodity, and her work shows it in projects like “Rufus Stone,” which hands over art-making materials and, in turn, the cachet of art-making to non-artists. Then there’s “100 Paintings in 24 Hours,” which…
If you’re scoring a modern silent film about ancient eldritch horrors, you’re going to need to do something a little different. An organ isn’t going to get it done; a piano is right out. Even a full orchestra, for all its dynamic range and variety of timbre, isn’t going to…
The first annual Art Makers Denver will present three days of interactive artist workshops at the McNichols Building September 14 through 16 — and registration is already under way. “It’s designed for anyone who has a desire to create,” explains Helen Rice, who owns Willow – An Artisan’s Market in…
