RedLine is both a showplace and a godsend for its resident artists, who have two years to work there and show the results, both in and out of the built-in community it fosters. It’s also an elegant gallery space that accommodates every kind of art, from multimedia and photography to…
The Robischon Gallery never disappoints: Not only is every show there worth seeing, but every piece is always perfectly installed in the elegant maze of showrooms that make up the place. Credit for this goes to directors Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran, who pull off an experience time after time…
On Thursday, October 31, the Laughing Goat at 1709 Pearl Street in Boulder will be the host of a Halloween party to help Boulder flood victims — and also to introduce some of the 200 people getting tattooed in the Boulder Tattoo Project, which we profile in this week’s cover…
Dia de los Muertos is a cause for celebration, a reason to gather with friends and family to remember the souls who have passed on. Mandie Erickson will make November 1 a day to remember by curating her first art show, which will have a grand opening from 6 to…
Think of Denver Arts Week as a celebration of all our city has to offer culturally, with the added incentive of sweet deals, from discounted memberships, restaurant meals and original artworks to a free Night at the Museums. But as a trip online to Denver Arts Week central reveals, there’s…
Locals have an autumnal cornucopia’s worth of entertainment choices on this year’s All Hallows’ Eve, and comedy fans are no exception. Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts has rapidly expanded its comedy programming calendar, making room for unique events such as the Halloween comedy showcase hosted by paranormal podcasters Werewolf Radar. The showcase will feature standup performances from event organizer James Gold, Ben Hutcherson, Aaron Urist, and Eric Henderson, with a headlining set from WWR’s own Jordan Doll. After the performances, the Werewolf Radar crew will attempt to contact the spirit of the season in a live podcast recording, which should hold equal interest for comedy nerds and ghost hunters alike. While Halloween is traditionally a busy night for paranormal investigators, the event begins at 8:00pm, well before prime ghost-hunting hours.
Zombies were solidly outnumbered over the weekend at the Exotica Erotica Ball, where green men and slinky cat-women canoodled with masked mystery ladies and scantily clad executioners. Photographer Brandon Marshall captured the sexy backlash bash in all its fishnetted majesty. Here are some of our favorite photos; you’ll find these…
Don’t expect a grand pastiche of Impressionists when you walk through the three exhibits that comprise Passport to Paris — while the Denver Art Museum’s fall blockbuster does have its share of Impressionist works, that’s only part of the exhibition suite’s story, which deftly provides the narrative of three centuries…
The Mizel Museum is launching the ultimate voyage of aesthetic voyeurism: Denver Collects, a series of programs that takes the public to the homes of local art collectors. These community members have graciously opened their homes to the events, which focus on collections of contemporary work by Colorado artists; each…
One of the most revered dramatic series in television history, The Twilight Zone continues to intoxicate viewers 54 years after it debuted on CBS. While still considered the crowning achievement within its TV sci-fi designation, it’s also appreciated outside the genre as a consistently engaging adventure of complex characters and…
Mary Voelz Chandler knows her structures. An art and design critic for the Rocky Mountain News until it folded in 2009, Chandler now works directly in the building field, as a communications specialist with G.H. Phipps Construction. She shared her knowledge in 2001’s Guide to Denver Architecture; now she’s back…
Hey, Denver: We’ve got game. For the last 35 years, we’ve been able to boast a world-class film festival, and this year’s 36th Starz Denver Film Festival only ups the ante. The full schedule, released on Monday and tucked into today’s issue of Westword (and also available online), proves the…
When Lanny DeVuono moved to Denver a few years ago to take the helm of the fine-arts department at the University of Colorado Denver, she was not only already an experienced professor, but also an accomplished painter known for her conceptual realism and a widely published art writer. Last year,…
Walk into TANK Studios, and you’ll find a raw but ordered space where one artist’s studio segues into another’s, and big windows, high ceilings and skylights unfold in a panoramic, circular pathway. Built out in a South Acoma Street warehouse in the Overland neighborhood early this year by a group…
For fine art students at Metropolitan State University of Denver, graduating involves more than taking a couple of finals and ordering their cap and gown. A group of fourteen soon-to-be grads are preparing thesis presentations at the Center for Visual Art, putting together the show Level Up, which opens on…
The Sink on the Hill in Boulder is as iconic for its floor-to-ceiling murals and signature-filled ceilings as it is for its burgers and beer. The artist who created those murals, Llloyd Kavich, passed away last week. See also: President Obama’s Boulder visit results in new specials at two restaurants…
This holiday season, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art is celebrating by hosting 12 and a half days of artistic performances in their sleek atrium. What sets the 12 & 1/2 Days of Xmas Live! event series apart from MCA Denver’s other programs is that the performers will chosen from an open call for entry and the applicants will be competing for a $500 prize. To learn more about the performances, Westword caught up with Sarah Kate Baie, MCA Denver’s director of programming and chief of fictions, to discuss the contest rules, reaching out to the local creative community and Denver’s puppeteering scene.
When the zombies stopped crawling downtown on Saturday, it was only the beginning of a long and living-dead night: The undead could then just march into a Zombie Crawl after-party at Casselman’s or the Zombie Prom at the Meadowlark — or both — and continue to carry on into the…
The zombie craze is here to stay, and that seems doubly true in Denver, where the annual Zombie Crawl turns downtown into a freakin’ bloody mess of creeps and crawlers dropping body parts everywhere, as they did this past Saturday. As these photos by Westword’s Aaron Thackeray prove, Denver zombies…
Denver is celebrating 25 years of the city’s public art program with Beyond Blue, an exhibition running through December 22 in the lobbies of the Buell Theatre and the McNichols Civic Center Building, where it held an opening reception on October 17. Many of the 46 artists who created the…
“You say boogie, I say bogey,” says Eric Matelski, in response to questions about the pronunciation of the ‘bogeyman’ element of the Bogeyman Group Art Show now up at MacSpa. Inspired by the fact that his family treated Halloween like Christmas in his youth, and in honor of Denver’s multi-cultural…
Michael Paglia visits Z Art Department in this week’s review, taking in a solo show featuring work by the late Al Wynne. Wynne was a large part of the mid-century modern art scene in Colorado, but a majority of his life’s work was destroyed in a forest fire last summer…
