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…
No doubt about it, the biggest art news this season has been the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. Located near the Denver Art Museum, the CSM houses more than 90 percent of the abstract-expressionist pioneer’s oeuvre — a gift from Still’s estate, and that of his wife, to the…
The Ladies Fancywork Society strikes again. The group known for yarn-bombing Denver — with everything from a ball and chain on the big blue bear outside of the Colorado Convention Center to a crocheted garden outside Union Station just unveiled a new piece. And unlike the Ladies’s street bombings, this…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
At least two Santa Fe Drive venues are beating First Friday to the punch by opening shows tonight. At Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, the high-profile group show Out Figured offers a contemporary and anything-but-cliched look at figurative art. The reception is from 7 to 9…
I fly fish. I’ve only been going for about three summers, I’m self-taught, I’ve caught exactly two fish and I don’t know how to tie my own flies. For those of you who have no clue what that means, it means I’m an amateur. And that probably I suck. But…
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…
Update: Because of the snow, this event has been postponed until Saturday, February 11. Life is a big mess, but deep down we all know what to do. Or so say Lindsay St. Antoine and Ravi Zupa in their upcoming exhibit, Nothing Teaches Needs, which opens at the Black Book…
Another year, another residency — it’s business as usual at PlatteForum, the award-winning nonprofit that pairs struggling kids with resident artist/mentors to create something communal and beautiful. The latest resident, installation artist Jessica Kruetter, has been working with ArtLab students for a few weeks already, with an imaginary environment as…
Craigslist can be a scary, scary place, but that doesn’t make any of us visit it any less. When Spark Theater playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided to write a play about the website’s role in Internet and pop culture, he spent hours scouring its Casual Encounters and Missed Connections sections…
Though the twenty-something Collin Parson — son of prominent Colorado sculptor Chuck Parson — has the official title of Gallery Exhibition Designer at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, he’s really the de facto director of the fine-art program. He’s filled a vacuum at Arvada because the position…
Update! Thanks for chiming in! We’ve picked a winner, so check your email to see if you’ve won! On Saturday, February 18, Artopia will fill five SoCo venues with work from some of Denver’s best visual artists, local fashion, culinary creations and specialty cocktails mixed exclusively for Artopia attendees. Tickets…
“Team Canada-Quebec created a sculpture that demonstrates all virtues of carving snow: clean execution, anatomically correct figures and animals, texture, balance and more,” said Jenn Cram, judge coordinator for the 22nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships and Arts District administrator for the Town of Breckenridge. The team won the competition…
Are you ready to “open up a can of Yee Haw!” at the Denver County Fair? While you’ll still have to wait until August 10 for the second edition to start — filled the National Western Hall of Education with a carnival, vendors and pavilions, and the return of the…
The Culture of African American Art is now on display in the lobby of Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, where the show will run through February 23. But you might want to take a look at it before the crowds descend for a reception for the artists scheduled for 5…
Giving to charity when you’re an artist may seem like a catch-22. After all, many emerging artists could use some charity of their own. But Heart Art Denver has made it possible to give back to the community by donating a piece or art to their 18th annual AIGA (American…
Wax your mustaches and practice your crazy eyes: Salvador Dali is coming to Colorado, for a month-long stay at the Center for the Arts/ Evergreen. Okay, so it’s unlikely that Dali himself will show up. And the items on display are actually poster reproductions on loan from the Dali museum…
There’s little snow along the Front Range, but there’s a blizzard of activity at the Colorado Convention Center, which is currently hosting 20,000 industry buyers from around the world at the SnowSports Industries of America Trade Show…
Just like the mass panic that’s sure to ensue when the end of the world comes this December, Plus Gallery’s new show “Apocalypse? How!” has a lot going on. To start, the show features four different artists, symbolic of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Donald Fodness, Larry Bob Phillips,…
