This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
It seems that nearly everyone who’s seen internationally known installation artist Judy Pfaff’s latest solo show at Robischon Gallery has come away feeling revitalized — so much so that the exhibit was held over until the end of December. That created the opportunity for Pfaff to drop by the gallery…
“I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock, and a perky little hat decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform,” David Sedaris said for the first time on NPR’s Morning Edition twenty years ago this Christmas. Chronicling his stint as an elf in the madcap Santa Land…
The Ice Cube Gallery fronts the Dry Ice Factory, a beautiful, light-strewn maze of studio spaces in, yes, a converted dry-ice factory. It’s a formidable venue for the display of art, and once-a year Ice Cube cooperative members join together for a wide-open group show. See also: – Feminism is…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
Founded by Laura Merage, a wealthy philanthropist and an accomplished artist, RedLine opened in 2008 in a smartly rehabbed warehouse at the northeast edge of downtown. RedLine is an unusual art institution in that it’s partly a studio complex, partly a stunning exhibition venue, and partly an agent for social…
Michael Paglia visited RedLine for this week’s review, taking in a group show from artists who also use studio space at the gallery. The show features many different types of work, ranging from paintings to installations, from about two dozen artists. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
When Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novel The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln was released this past September, he wasn’t sure what its critical reception would be. His prior work was almost entirely comedic, and here he was tackling a complex, biographical-historical novel about one of the nation’s greatest…
When Melissa Wollenberg of Highlands Ranch snapped a cute/surreal photo of her son in a gas mask, standing before the orange haze of this past last summer’s out-of-control fires, she had no idea that it would eventually be chosen by film legend Ron Howard and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy for…
Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM’s “Snake-Loader” Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor’s Choice Award. And this week the local brand…
As a university town, Boulder has a reputation for supporting both the avant garde and the cultural underground. Tonight, for instance, the Univerisity of Colorado boulder will host the multimedia program Invasion 2012, featuring works by students of new media technology-arts ground-breakers Mark Amerika (who teaches Remix Culture) and Mark…
Gio Toninelo’s Little Denver photography exhibit went up a week ago, but if you want to meet the artist and hear what he has to say about making the world look like a toy, tonight’s the night. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., Toninelo will be at Pablo’s Coffee for a…
The folks behind Unit E, the art space at 1201 Santa Fe Drive that won our Best DIY Gallery in the Best of Denver 2012, are used to big parties on First Friday. But on November 2, they got more action than they’d bargained for: Co-founder Gregg Ziemba was busted…
Earlier this fall, Bobbi Walker celebrated her tenth anniversary as the owner of Walker Fine Art by throwing a big bash that attracted a who’s-who crowd from the art world, in particular those from that local powerhouse the Denver Art Museum. Walker has built up a good reputation for her…
We here at Show and Tell receive tips from a lot of strange and surprising places — including, recently, a laundromat near the Ninth and Corona King Soopers. That’s where one eagle-eyed tipster discovered the most oddly specific (and generally glorious) roommate ad we’ve ever seen. We’ll give you a…
Some people enjoy erotic art; some prefer animal art. Depending on which you choose, it can say a lot about your personality. But artist LewisOne thinks these two aren’t mutually exclusive, and he plans to prove it when he unveils Puss N Pups: Little Naughty and Nice Art Show during…
Want to get lucky as you ring in 2013? The Westword New Year’s Eve Guide will be inserted in our December 13 issue, and will include information on select December 31 entertainment options, to ensure that when the clock strikes twelve, you don’t strike out. If you know of any…
Denver writer and part-time cab driver Gary Reilly was more interested in writing novels — many of which had to do with a cabbie named Murph who also wrote novels — than publishing them. But since Reilly’s death last year from cancer at 61, his Murph sagas are rolling out…
When the Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre closed in 1991, the fate of the century-old building was uncertain. Although the city said it wanted to save this last vestige of the original Elitch Gardens Amusement Park, there was no money for the project. So in 2002, the Historic Elitch Theatre Foundation…
It’s no easy task to open a planetary cultural dialogue in landlocked Denver, a place where members of an already strong arts community are fiercely, and perhaps rightly, protective of their own. But Patrick Mueller of the dance and movement ensemble Control Group Productions thinks a more continental mindset might…
I don’t know about you, but I have a love/hate relationship with the holidays. Sure, Christmas brings out the kid in all of us — well, except for those who celebrate Hanukkah or Kwanzaa — but it also brings out the dread, the depression, the debt and the dysfunctional family…
In this week’s review, Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery for the second installment of its Toy Stories exhibit — the first half of which came around in the summer of 2011. The group show features paintings, ceramic works and sculptures that are all inspired by toys — though not…
