The Wall Street Journal has a rave review of the Clyfford Still Museum today — its second piece on Denver’s new facility in as many weeks. The first, Daniel Grant’s “It’s Not Easy Being Single,” published on November 17, talked about the difficulties of dedicating a facility entirely to the…
Just as the cherry blossom opens in April, so has the brilliant lip foliage burst forth this month — even in November, traditional harbinger of winter’s cruel silence. Indeed, this Movember has seen more mustaches than ever bloom and grow like the lovely edelweiss, and as the month draws to…
Even though we may have made the “wrong assumption, wrong conclusion” about the onslaught of “I’m a Mormon” billboards across the state, comedian Lori Callahan still sees a correlation. She can’t help but think that as the election draws closer, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s faith has a lot to…
Mark Lunning founded Open Press, a fine-art printmaker, in 1988, and since then, he’s been the facility’s master printer. But he’s also an artist in his own right, creating prints, paintings and sculptures. All three types of work are on display in Mark Lunning: New Paintings, Prints and Sculptures at…
Seems like only yesterday that Working with Artists and the then-virtual Colorado Photographic Arts Center announced their impending merger, and indeed it was really only a few months ago. But no sooner did it begin to gather steam in its new guise as the New Colorado Photographic Arts Center when…
It’s a non-holiday holiday today, and as such we thought we’d shine a light on the Papa John’s delivery driver and glow-dart blower Warren Hammond of Boulder. Hammond, umm, blew it, on the Late Show with David Letterman earlier this month. Watch the video below to see what we mean…
The photographs in Colorado Uncovered — a new book by photographer Darrell Pierson and his wife, Sherry Whitney, which places naked models before both manmade and natural landmarks in this state — can inspire lengthy study. But despite the inspired staging, the photos themselves were taken very quickly. After all,…
Colorado Uncovered, a new book of photographs by Darrell Pierson, shows models stripped down everywhere from the Colorado Convention Center to Mesa Verde National Park. “Most women would rather be photographed as works of art than pinups,” says Sherry Whitney, explaining the origins of Body Photage, the company she started…
To look at the faces carved into the old tree trunk at Sloan’s Lake Park playground, you wouldn’t think any pain was associated with the project — the faces smile widely, laughing as children use them to climb to the top of the stump. Yet, sculptor Corrina Espinosa created the…
Time ran out last week for Adam Leech on Kickstarter.com. The Colorado Springs entrepreneur known for his vintage clothing and collectibles store, Leechpit, had been trying to raise a large sum of money to complete his documentary, A Nickel and a Nail: The Original Hobo Nickel Story…
This summer’s Fast Five movie generated a mind-boggling $626 million at the box office, helping lead-footed morons everywhere rationalize cutting you off in traffic while driving 80 in a 35. Great. However, if you haven’t let shmucks in souped-up Civics decimate your love of cars, this contest may be for…
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and since gratitude is for the weak, I’m thankful this year for one thing and one thing only: imminent victory. As we move into the fourth week of Movember, that great month during which brave men attempt to eradicate cancer by growing mustaches (thus raising awareness, which…
Finally, there’s positive, artistic proof of construction happening in Denver — and not just those obnoxious lane closures downtown. On Saturday, a projector was installed on the fourth floor of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building, facing the city’s newly renovated Minoru Yasui Building. An art piece called “Sunlight,” designed…
In the history of art in the region, artist Birger Sandzén stands out, and not just because his work routinely fetches hundreds of thousands of dollars — though that doesn’t hurt. Rather, it has to do with the high quality of his pieces and the way in which his style…
An event means business when you walk in and are asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that you accept the risks of using toxic substances. About forty people accepted those risks last night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Graffiti and Martinis and congregated in the purposely industrial-looking upstairs…
So many choices for music, dance or art this weekend. But if you’re in the mood for aerial performances, archetypal paintings, ecstatic dancers, light shows, electronica, fire spinning, spoken word, custom wearable art, vibration adjustments and energy activations — all in support of a good cause, mind you — there’s…
Master abstract expressionist Clyfford Still had no connection to Colorado during his life, but in death, the museum that is dedicated to him will have a daily connection to Denver. The Clyfford Still Museum opens today at 10 a.m. at 1250 Bannock Street, and it promises to bring a whole…
Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey’s most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, “Hoodoo is not Voodoo.” Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavender,…
We never get tired of showering the love on I ♥ Denver, the progressive all-Colorado gift shop run by community-minded entrepreneur Samuel Schimek at the Denver Pavilions…
The Clyfford Still Museum opens to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, but you don’t have to wait that long to be enveloped in abstract-expressionist magic. There are hundreds of poster featuring eight of Still’s works scattered across Boulder and Denver — and if you’re up for a scavenger hunt,…
After last week’s slow start, I’m pleased to report that, as we enter the second half of Movember, my mustache is downright glorious — by the Westword team of crack scientists’ last estimate, it now effects the death of tens of thousands of cancerous cells hourly. But while the mustache-fueled…
Tina Goodwin is a veteran of the Denver art world, having started out at the legendary Carson-Sapiro Gallery, which arguably pioneered RiNo as an art district some thirty years ago when it became the first art venue there. She was also the director for sixteen years of the now-closed William…
