The point of iWorld, which opened this week at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, is pretty much contained in the title: We do live in an iWorld of our own making, and it’s changing the face of the photographic image with its new level of immediacy — instant gratification, if…
Artists will paint on almost anything for charity: skateboards, vinyl toys, cat statues, guitars — you name it. Now an ever-growing slice of locals are contributing hand-painted bowling pins for the Wish for Wheels Bowling Pin Art Charity Show, a one-night affair on Saturday, January 14, from 8 to 11:30…
Tattoos are often associated with Lowbrow counter-culture art movements, but it’s more common now, especially in Denver, to see tattoo and fine art collide. Zach Custer, co-owner of Anthology Fine Art, a frame shop, photographer’s studio and fine art gallery on Santa Fe, explains that the fine art of tattooing…
Though we don’t often give it much thought, art has been locked in a love-clutch with science since the first caveman picked up a cinder and used it to draw on a wall. And while a lot of that has to do with things like chemical reactions, makeup of mediums…
Terminal Kings, a new art project commissioned by the Denver International Airport’s Art and Culture Program, is taking off this week, as world-class street artists Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff work on giant murals — each 100’x8′, painted in panels — that will be used as construction barricades at…
Celebrity fashion icons usually get the credit for their style. When women go to the salon holding a picture of their favorite ‘do, they’re rarely focused on who’s behind the look. Ever Good, a makeup artist and hairstylist at Matthew Morris Salon (the same Matthew Morris who placed third in…
First came the 1940s WWII-Era Ball, which has been transporting revelers back to the time of big bands and brave boys in uniform since 2009. Then there was the Big Band Christmas Ball, a sentimental throwback to the holiday season that started in 2010. And now organizer and vintage enthusiast…
The fully functioning home in which Glenn Grassi is standing in isn’t much larger than his bedroom was that time he joined the circus. It is significantly smaller than the sets he made and won national awards for during the two decades he spent in theater. It is smaller, even,…
Virtually any time a guy has three hot, wild girls in his apartment, he’s dreaming. And yet that’s exactly how a Colorado State University student feels after finding out that he and his business partners are headed to the Super Bowl to compete for $1 million…
Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie and the Business of Art Center put on a once-in-a-lifetime show last October, when they brought the Manitou Chair Project — a 600-chair conga line down the middle of the main drag in Manitou Springs at sunrise — to fruition. We liked it so much…
Denver artist Monique Crine is known as much for her photos as she is for her remarkably accomplished photo-realist paintings. She doesn’t feel, as might be assumed, that her work is based solely in photography, however. It also comes out of the moving-picture tradition, she says, especially classic films. This…
If you’re on a bike ride on the South Platte trail and you see the below wheat paste, what do you do? Naturally, you post that on reddit. Found by reddit user missjenviolin, it can be seen on the “South Platte trail near Mile High and Elitch’s. There is a…
There are circuses, and then there are circuses. For what that’s worth, Circus Emporium, which brings its roadshow and Museum of Oddities to 3 Kings Tavern tonight, falls into the latter, more overtly gruesome category. Here are a few of our favorite oddities from the sideshow, direct from Coney Island…
Claudia Roulier’s work is showing at CORE New Art Space this month through January 20, but that’s not all she’s excited about. “I just read my e-mail, and I’ve been selected as one of the artists in the Cherry Creek Arts Festival,” she says. “Only about twenty to thirty Colorado…
In the video documentary Flashing on the Sixties, by Lisa Law (, whose photographs are on view through February at the Byers-Evans House Museum), it’s noted that even in the early alternative hippie world of communes and cohabitation, women still did the traditional “woman’s work” — they cooked and watched…
The Kool-Aid was Kool-Aid, the brownies were brownies and people were packed into the room like sardines. But the vibe still flew free Friday night at the Byers-Evans House Gallery, for the opening of Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties, a meaty show of images both iconic and fascinating from…
Editor’s Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment…
Some acts of art vandalism are clearly inspired by outrage. Take, for example, El Dildo Bandito, the nom de guerre of a man who stole 22 ceramic penises from an art display in Boulder. Others are inspired by drunkenness, as may have been the case with Carmen Tisch, charged with…
Photographer Lisa Law didn’t just take pictures of the young Bob Dylan. She was also his cook and masseuse, and she hung out with him in L.A. when he roomed in the “Castle” where she then also lived. Her personal involvement with the artists she shot is the real legacy…
The case of Carmen Tisch, the 36-year-old woman who scratched, punched, rubbed and then peed in close proximity to a $30 million painting at the new Clyfford Still Museum, is definitely weird. But it’s certainly not the first act of strange art vandalism Colorado has seen (though it’s in the…
Many speculated that winter would end the Occupy movement, but Salida artist Jimmy Descant says he thinks the movement will stay strong and he has decided to show his support by staging his own protest, Crutches As A Sign Of The Times Of Occupation, opening tomorrow night at Leon Gallery…
If you haven’t made it to the new Clyfford Still Museum yet — and even if you have — here’s an opportunity too good to refuse: The museum will kick off a citywide season of related art events tonight by inviting the public to an evening of behind-the-scenes tours and…
