The Huichol people of Mexico, a spiritual and tight-knit clan of shamans and artisans, create art like that of no other culture on the planet, working in all nature’s brightest hues to produce intricate patterns and images from tiny seed beads and beeswax. Wixaritari: Huichol Art of Mexico, a large…
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Aspen’s Herbert Bayer was one of the premier artists in Colorado; from the ’80s to the first decade of the 21st century, Denver’s Dale Chisman played a similar role. But beyond that, their work has little in common, with Bayer going for a hard-edged…
We’ve told you about Matt Scobey’s Not for Sale public art project. The rest is up to you. Scobey placed another work late this afternoon; check his blog for information on where to find it. And let us know if you do! And to keep up with the Froyd’s-eye-view of…
What is public art, and who gets to display it? How does that work? And why? Those are the initial questions that Denver artist Matt Scobey is asking with his Not for Sale: Denver project, for which he’ll be randomly hanging artwork in nondescript locations around town — artwork that…
For 150 years, artists from around the world have come to Colorado to record its majestic mountains in paintings, prints and photos. And while the Rockies are certainly the most dramatic element of our landscape, some artists have instead focused on other, less expected views of Colorado. This includes those…
On Sunday morning in Manitou Springs, early risers were treated to a sight they’re not likely to ever see again: The Manitou Chair Project went down as planned, featuring nearly 700 disparate chairs on loan from the tourist town’s artsy community lined up, one after the other, in a front-to-back…
Art by Craft, the Denver Handmade Alliance’s annual member showcase exhibition, opened at RedLine on October 1, and it’s stunning — a spectacle of work by local artisans with a fine-art credibility. But this Sunday, October 9, pieces by craft artists will come off the exhibit floor and into the…
After a successful summer program, Girls Rock Denver is kicking things into gear with Rocktober, a month-long series of events to help fund its upcoming 2012 camp and hopefully get the group into a permanent space. This evening, art from local musicians like Sonya Decman and Darci Armstrong and images…
Corey and Jesse Knapper, a pair of art-school students who were arrested for pasting massive posters on the sides of buildings, are the focus of “Buzz Kill,” this week’s cover story. Some people call their work vandalism, some call it art, some call it both. Their graphic poster art is…
Denver’s Dangerous Theatre has been tickling funny boners and titillating naughty parts since 2007, and its latest play, Here be Dragons, is a tale of Christianity and homosexuality — with a dangerous hint of science and a delicious smidge of naked man-ass. But the theater itself still lurks in the…
Maria Mosina is almost as graceful a speaker as she is a dancer. Almost. A principal ballerina with the Colorado Ballet, Mosina began her career with the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company in Russia, and it is with a soft Russian accent that she describes her career as “completely natural” but…
Jonathan Franzen is a great American novelist in large part because he has written a great American novel — two, in fact. Last night’s Pen & Podium lecture at the Newman Center found the charming and occasionally awkward author of Freedom touching on bird watching (an enthusiastic hobby), The Moody…
This week’s feature story, “Buzz Kill,” profiles the Knapper twins, whose cast of street-art icons earned them popularity from fans and unwanted attention from the police. Westword art director Jay Vollmar provided this animated version of the cover, which you can check out below…
Update! Worst postponement EVER! Tonight’s Denver premiere of The Worst Movie EVER! was supposed to be the first event hosted by the Oriental Theater after a chunk of its ceiling fell onto the stage last week. This morning, unfortunately, the city inspector gave it a no-go, meaning that, for the…
Last year, Denver artepreneur Eric Matelski put together a themed Halloween gallery show riffing off Ouija boards. This year, his ode to the witching hour mines a global collection of bogeyman stories, including a few new ones that sprouted from the twisted imaginations of an artist or two. The Bogeyman…
Seems like just yesterday — February, actually — when the last round of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, with the winners for 2010, was announced. But 2011 will see another group of honorees, because the next awards presentation has been moved up to November 3, the start…
How did Ietef Cavem Vita, otherwise known in these parts as DJ Cavem Moetavation, spend his summer? Under the sun, it turns out: shoveling dirt and planting seeds, growing greens and teaching kids. A food-justice advocate and proponent of mixing up the beats of hip-hop with the kind of backyard…
The recent work of a pair of longtime members of Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173, http://edgeart.org) is on view in the co-op’s front and middle spaces through this weekend. Both artists are abstract painters. In the front is Mark Brasuell: The Second Chance, made up of acrylic and mixed-medium…
Everyone is doing a pop-up these days: restaurants, retailers, and now art galleries. Something about the slightly secretive blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nature of pop-up gets people into a tizzy — or the organizers at least. The Dikeou Collection is the latest venue to give it a go, with a large-scale Styrofoam installation…
The goal is noble. The rules are simple. And the results — well, they vary. In the spirit of both creativity and caffeine, Denver artists celebrated 24-Hour Comics Day this past weekend, the eighth incarnation of this national event, and the participants who eventually conquered the event’s requirements proved even…
Two very public downtown places will introduce new art exhibits today, and both are inviting the public to join in the party. The Alfred A. Arraj Courthouse at 901 19th Street is hosting the work of three contemporary Colorado artists — Gifford Ewing, John Boak and Rick Dula — in…
Standish Lawder is not a fan of digital photography. Part of it has to do with his personal preference: A 75-year-old former pre-med major who switched to art history after taking a fateful humanities class and went on to earn a Ph.D. in it, Lawder has a mind that just…
