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…
The best thing about the holidays? It brings families together. The worst thing about the holidays? Right: It brings families together. But here’s something enlightening to remember when that dark moment comes down and you fear you are going to do something horrible to your children the next time they…
Tonight, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, one lucky person win a date with Buntport Theater as a part of MCA’s Black Sheep Friday Dating Game event. In honor of the 60s show that inspired this local happening, we’ve compiled a collection of the top five celebrity appearances on The…
The Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands — supposedly for their own good — has generated outrage among mustang advocates across the country, as well as numerous YouTube glimpses of the brutality of the roundups. Now a documentary having its Denver premiere…
Valerie Savarie’s art lends itself well to the assertion that the message is the medium. The books she chooses to cut into, the string she sews to the cover and the characters standing at the door she’s cut open represent the message of her pieces. The meaning in the content…
If you happen to find yourself in Barnum and you don’t live there, chances are you’re lost. And not just because it’s not a neighborhood that lends itself to being found — find one of two streets that make their way down through the gulch, around the curve, back up…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. The beauty part of art for art’s sake is that it doesn’t have to be expensive, or be hung in a gallery to…
Holly Kai Hurd, art curator for the Blair Caldwell Library will be presenting a panel discussion and think tank examining art, activism and leadership in the 21st Century. “Get on the Bus!” is a component of the library’s dedication of the month of November to the Freedom Rides of the…
By the terms of my profession, I’m privy to just about everything happening culturally in this town. But I do sometimes long for a bigger city: to walk Manhattan from end to end to end, climb the hills of San Francisco, cruise Sunset Boulevard and kneel to Chicago, the hog…
Word came down yesterday from the Bureau of Land Management in favor of large-scale installation artist Christo’s Over the River project slated to cover areas over a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado with fabric canopies. Though further approvals are still needed from the Colorado Department of…
October 4, 1957: a dark day for America, the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite ever to orbit Earth. It was the first milestone of the USA vs. USSR space race, and we totally blew it. But we didn’t let it get us down. On the…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. “Linda,” John DeAndrea’s life-like sculpture of a sleeping woman, is one of Denver’s favorite and most mysterious artworks. Since the Denver Art Museum…
