Fancy Tiger’s Matthew Brown loves Denver’s small businesses. “We want to promote businesses that we think have a very positive influence on Denver,” Brown says of his Civilized Living series, a First Friday event curated by Fancy Tiger to feature all the stylishly underground operations our city has to offer…
Street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey is in town right now, painting a mural on the side of the Center For Visual Art building at 965 Sante Fe. Fairey teamed up with local artist, Evan Hecox and Philadelphia- based artist Jim Houser, to make a statement addressing the themes…
Most toilet seats are meant to be sat upon. But once in a while, there comes a throne cover fit to decorate a wall. And that’s the case with the seats going up for auction tomorrow night at the Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show — though event organizer Adam…
Though the title, Solitude, might suggest that the summer show at the William Havu Gallery is dedicated to the efforts of a single artist, it’s actually a packed group show. Gallery director Bill Havu has selected paintings and works on paper by more than a dozen artists, all of whom…
When we think back to the ideal of the true American Dream, images of freedom and the great frontier contribute to the Manifest Destiny that shaped our country. Artist, sculptor and Colorado native Francisco Sotomayor combined that revolutionary mindset with imagery from American culture to form his most monumental piece:…
Mother Mind Studios is turning into a motherlode of creativity. The new digital media company, which promotes and produces feature films, comic books and other artistic endeavors, has developed a strong team including visual artist Daniel Crosier, director/producer Dane Bernhardt, writer Cuyler Mortimer, editor Jose Medina, director Stephen Santa Cruz,…
The fifteenth Mile High Mayhem scooter rally went down in Denver over the weekend, attracting riders from all around. It only took a few minutes to see that many riders and their scooters seemed to share something: A color scheme, attitude or perhaps it was their shape of their body…
Deanne Stillman’s richly textured works of nonfiction about life and death in the Mojave Desert involve more than casual research, and consequently take some time in the writing — from eight to ten years each. Her true-crime debut, Twentynine Palms, explored the 1991 murder of two girls by a berserk…
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival will pay tribute to the victims of the Aurora movie theater shootings tomorrow during the opening ceremony…
Interplay, the new show opening today at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts , is playful on one level…and very serious on another. Kids ranging in age from three to eighteen created the video games, movable sculptures, miniature gardens and toys in this exhibit that invite visitors to experience art first-hand. Experience…
Pop culture is important. We spend our time and money on it, litter our speech with quotes from it, and our lives are shaped by it. That’s the premise of These Things Matter, a new podcast created by local comedian Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda. Of course, for all the…
We all know him as the witty hybrid of Johnny Carson and George Carlin; the anti-religion, anti-South, pro-drug, pro-leather suit godfather of televised political satire. But did you know that there was once a whole decade where Bill Maher was as cool and relevant as Tim Allen at a Sleigh…
Copper Mountain’s axe-centric Guitar Town music festival turns five this year when it returns to the resort two weeks from today. It’ll also mark the fourth year for the fest’s Art Guitar Silent Auction, which features twenty cast-away instruments donated by the Guitar Center and brought back to life by…
Wes Magyar Michael Paglia writes on page 35 of this week’s Westword, and online at “Faces, Places & Spaces,” that even if Faces, Places & Spaces, Collin Parson’s first effort as exhibition manager, isn’t up to the lofty standard of the Robert Mangold retrospective earlier this year — and it…
Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile was all ready to take a break in August, but instead, chance brought together a special end-of-summer show at Plus. Merge is something of an anomaly for the gallery: an exhibition of small, affordable works by three very different emerging artists — New Zealander Shannon Novak…
Unquestionably, one of the most ambitious and interesting exhibits of this summer is Faces, Places & Spaces at the Arvada Center. It was put together by Collin Parson, who has only recently been named the exhibition manager. That’s good news, as this show demonstrates. Parson has actually been doing the…
When artist Andrea Moore was asked to return to PlatteForum to work with high school students for the art space’s summer-long program, ArtLab, she wanted to do something teenagers would be excited about. What she landed on was subversive art. Two times a week throughout the summer, Moore worked with…
If there’s one thing that pop culture has taught us, it’s that robots fight. From Terminator to Transformers, robots are duking it out everywhere. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe some robots just want to dance…
Local skater Julian Christianson — Westword’s Best of Denver 2012 Best Skateboarder pick — has a knack for turning local contest honors into bigger opportunities. Last year his Hometown Heroes contest win in Denver earned him an invite to skate in the amateur finals at the X Games in Los…
When it comes to art and bicycles, Ivar Zeile knows how to keep the wheels turning. The owner of Plus Gallery, Zeile — who was in charge of curating last year’s inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge bike art installation — is taking the project for another spin, as Colorado again…
There are many reasons why we Coloradans love our state. Colorado keeps collecting accolades that prove time and time again why we truly are the best in the West. And here’s the latest: Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum in Ignacio has been rated the “Top Western Museum” by True…
Ever since the cavemen used embers to sketch animals on their cave walls, humans have been making art about where and how they live. But the city is a far cry from a prehistoric cave, and portraying the cosmopolitan scene is a lot more complicated for modern-day artists than it…
