Christmas is all about traditions, sure, but MCA Denver’s Black Sheep Fridays introduced a new holiday custom: decorating anatomically correct dirty cookies and making sparkly pasties pretty enough to adorn an adults-only Christmas tree — or something else. Photographer Ken Hamblin III shot the action as pastie-making expert and burlesque…
Bucket lists, by their very nature, are a celebration of the ephemeral – a wish list of fleeting activities to experience before the mortal coil goes into a death spiral. The
following experiences,however, are united by a sense of enduring history, of continuing traditions that will persist past the expiration dates of our own lives.
We’re taking a break, but it won’t be for long — after spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with our families and friends, Westword’s Show and Tell team will be back on the job early Thursday, December 26 with a focus on the past and the future of Denver’s arts…
When I’m traveling, adventure seems so much easier to fall into. I spent a good portion of 2013 on the road touring with my band, Lust-Cats of the Gutters, and without the pull of day jobs and responsibility, I’m much more likely to say, yes, let’s jump that fence. But…
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. Colorado native and outdoorsman Greg Marquez of Artquez can’t get enough of…
There’s nothing stuffy about Adam Lerner, whose whimsical yet intellectual sensibility propels everything that happens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, where he’s the museum’s director and “Chief Animator.” The same goes for his annual holiday message to MCA visitors, supporters and friends. This year’s greeting, entitled “Caffeinated History,”…
Designer, seamstress and girl-about-town Baily Rose makes dreamy, dressy dresses that are truly one-of-a-kind and wrap themselves around your personality like a bed of ethereal fairy clover. Really. And because the holidays are nigh and the days are short, she’s opening the doors of her Maison de Rose for Don…
The marquee offering among the winter shows at Robischon is David Kimball Anderson: Altitude, the California artist’s first Denver solo. The spaces are filled with installations meant to evoke the journey of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Viewers could hardly be expected to know this, because the references…
Artist House Tour Series featuring Jill Mustoffa.
Early in 2013, the artists of Powerhaüs Studio announced their idea for the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence Program, a juried three-month residency at the studio facility for one fine artist and one fashion designer. Along with that call for applicants, they named David Dadone of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and…
On New Year’s Eve, the Longmont-based Oskar Blues brewery will open the latest in its ever-expanding empire of craft-beer-themed restaurants and businesses. Cyclhops Bike CANtina, at 600 Airport Road in Longmont, will be a Mexican-style restaurant with twenty beers on tap, along with 43 premium tequilas and room for 300…
It’s easy to pass by the Mayfair Center on East 14th Avenue and Krameria Street and not take a second look. Over the past several decades, the strip mall has fallen victim to disrepair, transient tenants and a crumbling parking lot — all of which has left the space worse…
Aspen’s Rio Grande Skatepark has been around for over a decade and now, thanks to a recent change of heart by city officials, it will get a very welcome upgrade by award-winning park designers Team Pain, run by none other than “Search for Animal Chin” mega-ramp designer Tim Payne. We…
Editor’s note: Home designer 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. Denver creatives Dana Cain and Mark Putt bring living with art and…
Every picture does tell a story, and that’s why the bold graphics of poster design are powerful beyond words. There’s solid visual proof in the 35 works that comprise Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives, which opens Sunday, December 15 at the Denver Art Museum. Here’s a…
Michael Paglia visits Gildar Gallery and Goodwin Fine Art in this week’s review, taking in a large show focused on Clark Richert and two smaller solo shows featuring work from Mark Villarreal and pieces by Mia Mulvey. Continue reading for photos from all three exhibits. See also: Photos: the blockbuster…
The results are in, and Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s Twelve and a Half Days of Xmas Live! has selected 12 performers who will rock the museum’s modernist atrium throughout the holiday season. Each act earns a $50 honorarium as they compete for the winning prize of $500 and With acts ranging from the holiday inspired burlesque of Gigi D’Lovely to the self-explanatory Crazy Gorilla Drummer, the 12 days of Christmas promise to be filled with all sorts of appealing weirdness from the curated best of Denver’s diverse arts scene. Westword spoke to MCA Director of Programming Sarah Kate Baie to hear about the finalists and the selection process.
The plucky Gildar Gallery on South Broadway has made a name for itself by promoting young up-and-comers that director Adam Gildar uncovers. But for the current show, running through the holidays, Gildar has tapped Clark Richert, one of the greatest, most accomplished and most heralded artists in the state’s history…
Colorado mom and author Patti Wheeler began traveling with her sons before they could walk, and what unfolded is a family tradition — a legacy, really — with far-reaching implications on the environment, and possibly even humanity. See also: Denver author KG Karmichael celebrates uniqueness with her book on Breck,…
The anonymously subsidized YES MA’AM PROJECT announced its first recipient today: Up-and-coming local multimedia installationist and visual documentarian Adam Milner, whose experiments in subjective experience and social media exemplify what it means to be an artist in the 21st century. See also: 100 Colorado Creatives: Adam Milner…
The Denver Art Museum learned an important lesson when it brought 2012’s Yves Saint Laurent blockbuster to town: The art of fashion is compelling, and not just to art aficionados, but to a wide cross-section of bling-lovers everywhere. Banking on a similar reaction, the DAM announced today that it will…
Denver’s sneaker-freaks converged on the EXDO Event Center over the weekend for a frenzy of wheeling and dealing for collectible kicks, with music, live art and other hip-hop-savvy vendors. Westword photographer Kenneth Hamblin III was there with a camera: Here’s the tease. See also: Sneaker of the week? Mission accomplished…
