Update: Congratulations to therealstevecoogan! You’ve won two tickets to Artopia. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: Westword’s annual Artopia party is exactly one month away, which means it’s time to start planning your one-night exploration of Denver culture right now. Split across four venues…
Art of the State, which opens tonight at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, is an ambitious attempt to present the full scope of Colorado artists working in every medium and genre. Put together by Arvada Center gallery director Collin Parson and jurist Dean Sobel of the Clyfford…
Denver comic and former Westword scribe Adam Cayton-Holland will be making his standup debut on TBS’s Conan next Tuesday, January 29. “This is my first appearance on a late-night TV show,” Cayton-Holland tells us. “I did a small spot on the TV show Happy Endings, but yeah, in terms of…
This past year, Thérèse O’Gorman moved up from Santa Fe to take over as the exhibition director of David Cook Fine Art in LoDo. For her first show, she has put together 20th Century Modernists, highlighting abstraction done in the West. Old modern art from the 1930s through the ’60s…
The word “symposium” can conjure up the image of some uptight, academic scenario, but that’s exactly the opposite of what this weekend’s Postscript Symposium at MCA Denver has been designed. Created as a companion event to the museum’s current Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art exhibition, the Friday and Sunday shows…
Looking for the unusual in the arts in 2013? Downtown Denver’s private Dikeou Collection and the Dikeou Golden Triangle pop-up space are both places to start. And if you haven’t already checked it out, hurry to the downtown venue’s Swap Meet: Artpace and the Dikeou Collection, a major exhibition mounted…
Last week, we used the first entry in our “100 Colorado Creatives” series to re-introduce you to the Ladies Fancywork Society, the crafty local collective dedicated to knitting and needlework art. This weekend, we spent a day at the museum — an opening day, in fact — when we stopped…
MGM studio exec Louis B. Mayer started the Academy Awards in 1929 as a way to bolster the image of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — and assist in mediating labor disputes. From that modest beginning, the awards ceremony has grown into one of the world’s biggest…
Yee-haw! While galleries across the country have had a tough time in recent years, the Coors Western Art Show at the National Western Stock Show Complex got off to a fast gallop last week, selling more than $800,000 worth of art at the Red Carpet Reception three days before the…
Philip Sneed is leaving his position as artistic director for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, a position he’s held since 2006, at the end of the month. He will become executive director of the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, replacing Gene Sobczak, who had left a marketing position at…
The most common byproduct of politics is high blood pressure, and no one experiences that kind of pre-stroke madness like standup comedian Lewis Black. With his shaky hands, bulging eyes and unbuttoned suit, Black often appears as an out-of-work schmuck who writes angry letters to the White House and TMZ…
Over the years, Floyd Tunson has exhibited his work at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Metro’s Center for Visual Art and several top galleries. And right now, you can see Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, a full-blown survey of his long and illustrious career,…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where he took in a retrospective of pop artist Floyd D. Tunson. Tunston’s large body of work ranges from mixed-media installations to abstract paintings, and it earned high praise from Paglia, who called it one…
Sometimes the simplest concepts are the best — and you don’t get much simpler than the concept of the new podcast Bad or Not Bad. The name says it all, really — things are discussed and a verdict rendered: bad, or not bad? “That’s the short version, and what I…
Ed Baierlein has sold the Germinal Stage building, the space his company moved into 25 years ago…and where “no actor is every more than thirty feet from your nose!” But while Germinal will be leaving that theater at the end of this season, Baierlein plans to continue putting on shows…
It’s not often that a performer lands a star role, yet no one recognizes that performer’s face — or, more accurately, three faces. But that’s the case with Joey, the title character of War Horse, now playing at the Buell. Joey is a life-sized puppet created by the Handspring Puppet…
The classic romantic images of cowboys, tumbleweeds and sunsets will always be attached to the idea of the American West. But the art coming out of this side of the country encompasses so much more, as can be seen in the exhibition Rethinking Western at Gallery 1261, which opens tomorrow…
On the cutting edge of the dance world, it’s not just about movement anymore, although the physical voyage through space is still an integral part. In Dance the Orange, a new performance created by Monica Dionysiou and Marc Devine of the the Umbrella Collective, the movement is suspended in a…
Contemporary painter Sharon Feder, a longtime resident at Ironton Studios and Gallery, is the subject of a good-looking solo there called Topologies, which represents both a continuation of her interest in urban archaeology and a change in direction. The subject matter — rundown warehouses — links her work to that…
John McCaskill of the Upper Larimer boutique/gallery MegaFauna got his start at Derailed Ink, a screen-printing business, and printed work — more specifically, exquisitely crafted band posters — is still one of his passions as a retailer. No surprise, then, that McCaskill has chosen to showcase posters and artists in…
Maybe you keep it in the back of a drawer or between the leaves of an old journal, or perhaps in a cardboard box in the garage. You don’t know why you keep it, but you do, and every once in a while, when you come across it, it screws…
Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don’t know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and…
