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…
Beverly McIver, whose work was displayed in a solo show last year at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, is the kind of painter who pulls no punches. She paints bold, expressionistic statements based on her experience as an African-American woman, touching unflinchingly on issues of race and class. And…
The long-awaited opening of the Clyfford Still Museum takes place next week, and I was able to get an advance look inside. Before I report on that, however, here’s a quick rundown of its history. Clyfford Still attained master status by being among the pioneers of abstract expressionism, the style…
This is part of a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week, saluting some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. I didn’t think my childhood was different from that of anyone else who grew up in a working class home — until a slumber…
When Carlos Fresquez teaches young children about Día de los Muertos, the day of the dead, he has a strategy for making the skeletal imagery not so scary: “I would just say, hey, knock on your head. There’s a bone in there. You yourself are a skeleton. And when you…
What is Colorado culture? It’s a good question, and one that is either fiercely debated or laughed off, depending on who you talk to. For example, when Kenneth C. Arkind, a local poet and Hot Congress Collective member, went to New York recently, he overheard a few people talking about…
This year’s Denver Arts Week will be bigger than ever, boasting the largest number of participating theaters, museums, galleries and artists that the city has yet seen for the annual celebration. The festivities begin tonight, and are coinciding for the first time with the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the…
Ain’t it beautiful? That’s Judy Anderson and Salvador Flores-Martinez of Denver’s PlatteForum accepting the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from Michelle Obama yesterday at the White House. Their voyage to Washington also marked Sal’s first-ever jet flight and an ensuing sense of utter awe at being in…
Unlike California or Florida, Colorado isn’t known as a sports car state. We simply have too much crazy weather. But, despite mother nature’s push to get us into all-wheel drive vehicles year round, there is a market for super-fast, super expensive sports cars. Ferrari of Denver specializes in selling cars…
Cold beer, crispy tacos and badass skull art was the trifecta of treats last night at El Diablo. The restaurant at 101 Broadway was packed wall-to-wall for the third annual Dia de los Muertos Tattoo Artist Skull Show & Charity Auction, and the only thing better than the Day of…
Light Supply, a glowing group exhibition that opened last summer amidst a flurry of local shows playing with light, features works by a number of well-respected magicians of illumination. Three of them — Lonnie Hanzon, Jen Lewin and Collin Parson — will join Museum of Outdoor Arts director Cynthia Madden…
The cat’s now out of the bag: Earlier today, PlatteForum founder and artistic director Judy Anderson, education director Meagan Terry and nineteen-year-old student representative Salvador Flores-Martinez were honored at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama, when they were handed their 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award,…
