Interviewing some celebrities can be as excruciating as putting out a campfire with your face, but talking to John Waters is a lot like talking to a friend — that is, if you have friends who have made freaks, gays, drugs, abortions and religion into delightfully irreverent movies that have…
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave unveiled its new exhibit, Buffalo Bill Superhero, yesterday on Lookout Mountain. The character of Buffalo Bill (born William F. Cody) graced the cover of almost 2,000 dime novels more than a century ago, making him America’s first comic-book hero — and paving the way…
You could say it all started with a pair of shoes — the most minimal of shoes, made of woven straw — in 1991. That’s when Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois strapped the first pair on her feet and ventured off on a series of foot-treks around the world, creating…
It’s always a good Friday when Untitled rolls into the Denver Art Museum: The monthly last-Friday series, which makes looking at art fun and proactively unboring, turns your museum visit upside-down from the moment you walk in the front door. Tonight’s session, Untitled #44 (Road Trip), pays homage to the…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
With his art, Phillip Potter investigations the correlation between interior design, home decoration and fine art. His current show, The DavenPort Collection , which runs through February 26 at Edge, is a subtle nod to the role of fine art in America’s consumer-minded society, a slight satire on how visual…
Ellie Rusinova and Brandan Styles, the art duo Mad Tatters, want you to embrace your darker side. “Too many people are afraid to find their shadow side,” says Styles. “We both want to show ours, in our way, and we want to act upon and play in that dark area.”…
In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening’s three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading — with a couple even marking return performances with progress updates. The low-key evening, styled…
Agnes Sanchez knew she wanted to be a glassblower from the first time she saw a demonstration. “I kept telling my pops that this was it,” she says. “I talked about it all the time. He was finally like, ‘Stop talking about it and do it.'” Now she has an…
Denver’s share of the country’s slam-poetry scene is already a large one, with two nationally competitive teams and a role as the reigning national champion city. But from March 7 to 10, its role will grow even bigger as Denver hosts its first national slam competition, the five-year-old Women of…
Artist Heather Doyle-Maier is stripping a common ritual to its most basic components. In two current shows in the Navajo Arts District, she explores the meaning of getting dressed and undressed. Doyle-Maier is featured in Lovesick at Zip 37, and she has an installation in the back room of Edge,…
Every picture tells a story, Rod Stewart once said. And he might have been paraphrasing an ancient Chinese proverb, but that’s not the point. The point is, every person who views a work of art will undoubtedly experience something different. And while that experience is linked to the power and…
Artists, it’s always a good idea to sign your work — and in this day and age, when you can include a website on the piece, all the better. Case in point: a square-foot piece of art we found on a busy Denver street this past weekend. It was only…
The latest local version of the Shit Girls Say viral video trend is “Shit Girls in Denver Say,” starring Erin Streets, a 25-year-old fashion designer and stylist who utters cliches and catch phrases for a good three minutes. It’s funny. Watch the video below and read Street’s reaction to its…
This year’s juried annual at Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker3, includes works selected by Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit, who also designed the installation. Though Chanzit took an inclusive approach, she laid out the show coherently by grouping together works with stylistic affinities. Owing, no doubt, to Chanzit’s position, a…
It was a clothes call, but the results are in: Last month Meghan Throckmorton, owner of Rakun, issued an open call for local design students to submit original, custom-crafted women’s looks. She’s now selected the top three garments, and is encouraging people to stop by Rakun, her shop at 1147…
Suzi Q. Smith — profiled in this week’s cover story “Slam, Bam, Thank you, Ma’am” — has performed poetry for more than a decade, and slammed competitively since 2006. Onstage, the Denver artist augments both her voice and her physical stature, increasing both her volume and her height as her…
Editor’s note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment.) On Saturday night, we sent him…
In December, we caught up with Andy Raney and Jeremy Make, the local co-creators of kART Across America, a documentary devoted to their 108-day trek across the United States in a fussy, broken-down golf kart named Christine. On Thursday, Michael Moore caught up with them — on NPR. In a…
If you missed our Artopia event last night, catch up with what you didn’t experience with these tweets…
In this week’s cover story, “Slam, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am,” Westword shadowed Denver poet Suzi Q. Smith and traveled to Wyoming with her and two other big names on the national touring roster: Bobby Lefebre and Theo “Lucifury” Wilson. Aside from a lowly Westword writer, the rental car held three…
One of the best films of the year, Midnight in Paris, and one of the most popular albums of the year, Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne, have little in common on the surface…
