The instructors at the Art Students League of Denver practice what they teach, as evidenced by Revisiting: Celebrating 10 Years of the Visiting Artist Series at ASLD, a special exhibit opening this weekend. Offering art classes for every medium, the 25-year-old ASLD is a community-centric, non-profit, non-accredited art school right…
Boulderites — especially those in the city’s close-knit pro-cycling community — take bikes seriously. So it goes without saying that the annual Bike Art exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts is a big draw. The national show of more than 100 works in a variety of mediums is…
Ever since it opened in a shed off Archer Street in 2003, and in the five homes it’s had since then, the Denver Zine Library has been a community space where people can see handmade publications donated from all over the world — 15,000 zines in all today. On Friday,…
In a transitory town like Denver, many new parents find themselves stationed hundreds of miles from kin — and some moms, myself included, struggle to make it through the first year, feeling isolated while experiencing postpartum depression or struggling with breastfeeding. So, if it takes a village to raise a…
Among the offerings at Walker Fine Art is the standout Sabin Aell: Mond:See, a solo outing in the gallery’s main room. The show starts with a bang courtesy of the striking title piece, “Mond:See” (pictured), a mural that starts in the entry, then climbs the north wall and bleeds onto…
For close to twenty years, the LIDA Project, Brian Freeland’s experimental theater group, has been both a deliberately collaborative effort and the spawn of Freeland’s own unique vision, and the model has worked well for the company. Even when Freeland took a sabbatical in 2010, LIDA continued to take Freeland-style…
KG Karmichael has just published her new book, Breck the Floppy Eared Husky, with illustrator John Rose. Technically, the book is labeled middle grade, which means it’s for the twelve-and-under demographic. But if there’s anything The Hunger Games and Stargirl have taught us, it’s that even the most grown-up grownups…
As the world goes more and more paperless, so does the art world, too: It’s easy to post imagery online, and while coffee-table books are becoming expensive dinosaurs, exhibit catalogs are forever on the Internet. It was appropriate, then, for Philip J. Steele Gallery curator Cortney Lane Stell to document…
The fourth annual Victorian Holiday Home Tour kicks off tomorrow, November 30, inviting visitors to get an intimate look at some of central Denver’s oldest and grandest homes. A tradition that has fast become a local favorite, last year’s event featuring local mansions saw more than 800 people through the…
When the Denver Art Museum doubled its exhibition space in 2006 by building the Frederic C. Hamilton wing across the street from its iconic Gio Ponti tower, the idea was to use the new building for temporary exhibits — in particular, big blockbusters. A lot of people, especially art writers,…
Michael Paglia visits Denver Art Museum in this week’s review, taking in the three-part exhibit, Passport to Paris. The shows feature work by big names ranging from Toulouse-Lautrec to Monet. Continue reading for photos from all three exhibits…
If all the pressure to maximize your gastro capacity isn’t bad enough this week, try explaining why you’ll need to wait 77,798 years — until after Voyager 1 passes Alpha Centauri — to again use the menurkey. In the meantime, you have to navigate the explosion of mediocre Thanksgivvukah mashups…
No Shave November has become a cult-classic in our chilly city. If you’re male, chances are you’ve participated at least once or twice — it’s an excuse not to shave for a whole month, so why not? But while the hair apparent is all over Denver this month, most people…
Whovians are desperately loyal, and they have been for fifty years, ever since William Hartnell first hit the BBC as the original Doctor Who. Ten doctors later, with British actor Peter Capaldi set to become the twelfth Doctor beginning with this year’s Christmas special, the push to the future began…
In October I was booked for a one-night performance gig showcasing a Weeping Angel costume for multimedia artist Jenny Shumaker at a Denver RAW Artists event, dedicated to supporting emerging local artists. Based on an award-winning 2007 Doctor Who episode, “Blink,” the costume came with a fan base — which…
This year, why not think outside the ubiquitous and well-wrapped gift box and plan a holiday party your friends will never forget? Here are ten unexpected places to throw a surprisingly great bash. See also: Dear Stoner: Can we light up at parties now?…
In 2010, Adam Lerner was presented with what looked like a collection of pieces from the Russian Avant-Garde masters. Though the origin of the works was unverified, he showed them anyway — a potentially career-shattering move for Lerner, who had recently taken the position of director at the Museum of…
Michael Burnett, the director of Space Gallery, is constructing a swank new two-story space at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive to house his venue. A custom gallery is something of an exception in Denver, where most art businesses occupy repurposed storefronts in existing buildings. Space…
Construction has been ongoing for the past couple of weeks, but today was the official groundbreaking for a hip new hotel on Broadway, between 12th and 13th avenues, that is being designed to fit in with the city’s museum and cultural district in the Golden Triangle.the Art, a hotel, which…
The third annual Denver Comic Con and Literacy Conference is still months away, but it’s not too early to start planning. Tickets for the event go on sale on December 2 — Cyber Monday, of course — and the DCC has already announced its first guests, including celebrities from such…
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
For Saturday night’s performance at the Colorado Symphony, the scene wasn’t the classic crowd. In place of stuffed shirts and pearls, there were Star Wars stormtroopers and Star Trek crew members wandering the lobby of Boettcher Concert Hall, along with a whole zoo of other comics, sci-fi and gaming characters…
