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…
It’s not every weekend that a handful of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners and international artists converge on the area. But this weekend the Americas for Conservation and the Arts will present the inaugural Americas Latino Festival of Colorado, a green event celebrating the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority population and…
Colorado native Rebecca Shepard is a newly minted author, and she’s barely old enough to drink. Her book, Naked Came the Post-Postmodernist, already has the New York Times talking. Actually, make that the book in which she has a part. There’s a story to this Naked and it began when…
Artist and arts advocate Tracy Weil and fellow artist Jill Hadley Hooper founded the wildly successful River North Art District in 2007. And Weil’s Weilworks, a postmodern farmhouse complete with a small farm, is right across Chestnut Place from Ironton Studios & Gallery, the post-industrial complex where Hooper is the…
Now through December 1, giving also means getting at Fallen Owl Tattoo, 8789 West Colfax in Lakewood, where anybody who brings in a few unopened toys during the third annual Toys for Tattoos Toy Drive receives a gift certificate good toward a tattoo. See also: The Boulder Tattoo Project puts…
In her one-woman show Doña Rosita’s Jalapeño Kitchen, Ruby Nelda Perez rules her realm of pots and pans with an iron will and a big bowl of laughs, all while musing over whether or not to sell out, leave her business behind and let greedy developers change the face of…
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.
Ana Penalba is a thinker. She hails from Spain, but now calls New York home. Currently she is the artist in residence at PlatteForum, and working hard with a group of middle-school students to debut a very cerebral experience on December 12 at the studio. Gaining a residency is a…
There’s the zombie, post-apocalyptic kind of cannibalism (good), and then there’s the kind that Stanley Tucci notices in Medora, a movie that’s been called the year’s most important sports documentary and, according to executive producer Tucci, “shows how America has cannibalized itself.” Davy Rothbart’s newest flick isn’t just for basketball…
The Source seems to have something for everyone under its miles-high roof. But until this weekend, it didn’t have a gallery/design boutique. When SVPER ORDINARY opened its sleek new space at the Source Saturday with an inaugural show, Máthēma, featuring new works by the graphic design duo, Berger & Föhr,…
Boulder-based photographer James Balog is an adventurer with a camera and a conscience who burst into the public eye last year with the release of Chasing Ice, a film about Balog’s ongoing project to document the slow melting of arctic glaciers brought on by global warming. He’s been around the…
Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery and David B. Smith Gallery in this week’s review, taking in a group show focusing on close-ups of nature and featuring artists Jane Abrams, Jean Gumpper and Betsy Margolius. The show at David B. Smith Gallery is a solo showcasing works by Don Stinson…
The Halloween ghouls have all slunk back into their closets for another year, and that means — you guessed it — the holiday shopping season is upon us. And the urgency is amped up in 2013, thanks to an early Hanukkah (the first candles are lit on Thanksgiving eve this…
The reliable William Havu Gallery has hit a groove this fall by establishing a theme for a series of exhibits: regional subjects by regional artists. The season opener was Western Not Western, which featured varying interpretations of Western subjects. Next week, there’s a Jeff Aeling solo made up of neo-traditional…
You may never create a masterpiece worthy of hanging, but the Denver Art Museum is giving you the chance to help create something that could be displayed in the facility next year. On Friday, November 8, DAM will host “Meet Here: An Evening of Untitled Idea Brewing and Creative Criss-Cross,”…
Some estimates put the number of Colorado’s undocumented immigrants in the hundreds of thousands. But for all the debates on how to treat locals lacking papers, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the everyday lives of the people we won’t call citizens. Five Boulder County Latino youths, most…
When the crowds came out on Santa Fe Drive to kick off Denver Arts Week on November 1, they found themselves crawling through a delicious collision of art, Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, in addition to the usual First Friday street life. Following is a picture sampler from photographer…
Pirate: Contemporary Art pulled out all the stops while honoring its long-standing traditions on Saturday night for its thirtieth annual Day of the Dead celebration. Families with painted faces crowded into the Navajo Street co-op for all-ages piñata-bashing, altar displays, a Muertos Mart for handmade Day of the Dead goods…
It’s common for artists and designers to rent studio space in a shared building, where they can work undisturbed without necessarily interacting with any of the other tenants. The Studio in Boulder hopes to combine the idea of separate spaces and a community atmosphere in a new type of shared…
The September flooding across the Front Range left lives tangled in its wake and victims struggling to recover their belongings — a photograph here, a cell phone there, a doll washed away in a torrent. For Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois, such objects and mementos, however damaged, represent the spirit…
Michael Paglia visits Robischon Gallery in this week’s review, to discuss several exhibits that focus on photo-based methods, including video. The main show features large photographic prints from Halim Al Karim, the well-known Iraqi refugee and part-time Colorado resident. Halim’s brother Sami Al Karim is the subject of another of…
