Aurora Cultural Arts District wants you for Poetry@Play in September

Know any poets? Got a thing yourself for putting words together in beautiful collages? There’s a place for every poet at the Aurora Cultural Arts District’s first-ever Poetry@Play weekend, where verses by featured poets and all comers will ring out both indoors and out in downtown Aurora on September 20…

This year’s Biennial fizzled rather than sizzled

Although the middle of July marked the apex of activities related to the 2013 Denver Biennial of the Americas, the official exhibits connected to the event are still going through this weekend. The first rendition of the Biennial, which took place three years ago (meaning this incarnation was one year…

Let SAN sooth your soul tonight at Hinterland

Even the hardest-willed Type A sometimes needs to slow down. And naturally, so do the rest of us. Tonight in the garden behind Hinterland, everyone’s welcome to sample three loosely interrelated mind-loosening disciplines designed to slow down your pulse and amp up your chakras during SAN, an evening of “music,…

RTD art: Emmett Culligan’s “Plow” at the County Line station

“Let’s make a gigantic agricultural plowshare,” is the thought that inspired artist Emmett Culligan to create “Plow,” the large sculpture that resides at the County Line light-rail station. Culligan answered a few questions about this piece in our latest installment of our RTD art series and discussed the purpose he…

You don’t have to be mid-century to love the Denver Modernism Show

In the new millennium, modernism is something of a conundrum. As immediate as it is retro, the mid-century ethos of streamlined design and space-age concerns is enjoying something of a style renaissance. Blame Mad Men if you must, but mid-century is cool again. That explains why Dana Cain’s Denver Modernism…

RTD art: Susan Cooper, creator of the Tufts Flyover

For more than a decade, Susan Cooper has helped make your wait for an RTD train a lot more pleasant. As a member of the art team, she’s helped with projects at many of the stations. She’s also the creator of the Tufts Flyover that connects Tufts and Santa Fe…

RTD art: Michael Clapper at the Arapahoe at Village Center station

The three tall sculptures at the Arapahoe at Village Center light-rail station look like they could fit together as a puzzle. But as it turns out, there’s nothing puzzling about the concept behind this piece: Sculptor Michael Clapper created it to represent Greenwood Village itself. He recently talked with us…

Bicycle art rides into Denver International Airport

Even as the third annual US Pro Challenge takes off from Aspen today, a bicycle-art show is taking off a Denver International Airport. Using bicycles, artists have created representation of all the cities involved in the US Pro Challenge: Aspen/Snowmass, Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Beaver Creek, Vail, Loveland, Fort Collins and…

RTD art: Robert Tully at the Littleton and Mineral station

No need to check your watch if you’re at the light-rail station at Littleton and Mineral: Robert Tully took full advantage of Colorado’s sunny days when he created his public-art piece, “The Silver Band of Present Time.” He recently took a few minutes to talk with us about art, public…

Desperately Seeking Susan and four more films where Madonna plays Madonna

When Desperately Seeking Susan arrived in theaters in 1985, Madonna was already a star. In the movie, she played Susan — who unknowingly trades places with co-star Rosanna Arquette’s Roberta, a bored housewife — and that character seemed uncannily similar to the real-life Madonna, only in widescreen format. Over the…

RTD art: John McEnroe at the Dry Creek station

Sculptor John McEnroe has created some of the most controversial pieces of public art in the area. But not only has he given Colorado plenty of talk about, he’s also taken inspiration for his work from Colorado. We recently caught up with McEnroe to talk about how his piece “Fools…

“A bear walked into a bar” — read the winner of our joke contest

“Are giant bears walking through downtown Colorado Springs?” asked a nitwitted FoxNews anchor last week, after video of the dumpster-diving bruin outside of the Edelweiss German Restaurant in Colorado Springs aired for the umpteenth time on the network. And Fox wasn’t alone; the schnitzel-hunting bear became an instant celebrity around…