Design After Dark: A photo preview

The Denver Art Museum’s Design Council plans to celebrate art and fashion tonight at Design After Dark: Bespoke. More than 30 art objects were created specifically for the event, and they’ll be on display and up for auction Friday night at 445 Broadway. Here’s a first look at some of…

First Friday reruns: Everybody loves a second chance!

When Mother Nature dumped snow on Denver last Friday, more than a few galleries and businesses decided to shut their doors, first Friday or no. A blizzard of confusion resulted, as many show openings and other events were postponed to later dates — many of them this weekend. Here are…

Illiterate’s Adam Gildar goes solo in a new chapter for Denver arts

Adam Gildar, Westword MasterMind (Class of 2011), is having a hard time getting used to saying “I” rather than “we” when speaking about happenings at his South Broadway gallery: Formerly known as Illiterate and managed by three partners including Gildar, it’s now re-entering the art-scene fray as Gildar Gallery, run…

Denver got a bargain when David Choe made his mark on the city

The Terminal Kings project was billed as bringing “world-class” art to Denver — a city that many of us would argue already has world-class artists. But when street artist David Choe, along with Sam Flores and Highraff, was hired to create giant murals that Denver International Airport’s Art and Culture…

Super Bowl XLVI: Five pop-culture predictions for the coming year

Calender-wise, every year starts at the beginning of January. But when it comes to pop-culture, the year “kicks off” (hey-o!) with the advertising blitz (so many football puns!) that is the Super Bowl, when advertisers collectively spend brajillions of dollars to tell us how to think and feel during the…

Korean artists keep it real at the CU Art Museum

Where is art happening? Many of the most contemporary trends are coming from urban Asia — Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul — where technology wraps itself around ancient aesthetics with bold results. There are plenty of Korean artists riding that wave, and eight of them are featured in Keeping It Real: Korean…

Britt Madden works with a letterpress and an iPhone. Which one is art?

When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, “real” photographers, wouldn’t have anything to do with digital photography. “There are the guys saying iPhotography isn’t art,” she says…

Are you smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student?

Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? * What causes stars to twinkle?* If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!…

Impossible Winterbourne’s unsanctioned public art goes steampunk

The Impossible Winterbourne, a Denver artist, doesn’t consider himself a “street artist” because his art isn’t limited to the streets. But like street artists, Winterbourne’s installations appear quietly, waiting to be noticed. He’s been in Denver “scarcely a year,” and during that time has added his sculpture to ordinary urban…