As someone who has long been a champion for art in Colorado, you can imagine how delighted I was when, on July 16, the Bureau of Land Management greenlighted — with many required changes and provisos — the building of Christo’s “Over the River” along the Arkansas River between Salida…
Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum is a truly awesome set of exhibits, and it’s something that every adult — and kid — can enjoy because of both its scope and its appeal to all ages. In fact, the DAM typically does a fantastic job of catering to kids…
Brian Bradley, a street artist who works under the name Frank Kwiatkowski, is a type 1 diabetic and his art focuses on his disease. He makes prints using traffic cones, a technique he came up with and has shared with other artists around town. He is this week’s cover story,…
Denver artist Marie Vlasic is no Shrinking Marie, and it shows in her striking work: full frontal, super-real portraits that don’t shy away from anything, make your jaw drop and sing the body electric. That considered, Vlasic is also an aficionado of the Burning Man experience and thinks everyone should…
As it did last summer, MCA Denver has given itself over to a single exhibit for the season rather than presenting multiple shows, and there are some obvious reasons why. First, it allows the powers-that-be at the museum to mount major exhibits, and second — and probably more important —…
Though Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre remains mum on the subject, it’s basically Internet fact at this point that Charlie Harper, Charlie Sheen’s character on the popular series he helped create, will be killed off in the show’s premier on September 19 — he’ll be replaced by…
It’s the most grueling professional bike race ever held on American soil. Beginning in Colorado Springs, winding up along treacherous passes through Gunnison, Avon, Aspen, Vail and eventually to the State Capitol in Denver, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge is like the Tour de France of America (literally: it’ll have…
Every time I go to the doctor’s office, it’s the same old story: I show up on time for the appointment I’ve made in advance and then wait for two hours, during which they make sure I’m going to pay them and provide six-month-old gossip magazines for me to read…
Waldo came and disappeared from the Arhaus Furniture store in Boulder back in April, but he wasn’t done yet; since then, a stencil of the famously elusive children’s cartoon character has been popping up in several hard-to-spot locations all over Boulder, steadily attracting the attention of Boulder blogger Blempgorf and,…
While Katherine Rutter, Aron Dubois and Zach Reini all create very different art, Illiterate Gallery director Adam Gildar says that “they connect in their exploration of inhumanity and humanity, and they all have very different takes on that.” Tomorrow night’s closing reception at Illiterate Gallery will be the last time…
The basic origin of the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” is clear enough: the 1981 video game, in which said large ape somewhat inexplicably terrorizes a construction site. What’s less clear, though, is how that ape went from mindlessly slinging 8-bit barrels at Mario to an icon for getting…
Jennifer Garner, the director of Metro State’s Center for Visual Art (965 Santa Fe Drive, 303-294-5207, www.metrostatecva.org) has organized Reclamation, featuring pieces made from trash. “It’s not recycling,” Garner points out. “It’s reuse.” Garner had conceived Reclamation as a group show, but there’s an unexpected solo within it. Ann Weber,…
Although IKEA didn’t even allow people to start lining up outside its doors for Wednesday’s grand opening until 9 o’clock this morning, it’s been more than 30 hours since the line effectively started forming in the parking lot across the street. The Swedish home-ware retailer, of course, is offering a…
There’s something about the nurse in popular culture — and while hospital-based programming has fallen from popularity in recent years, the image of the workday nurse in all its forms has been one that anyone who’s spent time in the ER or recovery room knows, whether via a hazy, drug-induced…
If you know Dave Foley, you know the Kids in the Hall. Sure, he fell into the mainstream with News Radio (and rocked it), but he will forever be an inappropriate kid with daddy issues who likes to dress in drag, an icon among comics for when he and his…
If you haven’t yet seen Marvelous Mud, the homegrown, summer-long blockbuster at the Denver Art Museum, you might think it’s a single show. But it’s actually eight different exhibits, a series of workshops, lectures by artists and curators, various special events, and even a symposium. For the DAM, it’s an…
Summertime and the living is easy…not. Here are five ways for local artists to stay busy during the dog days. Because — wink, wink — we know you’re all lying around the pool sipping lemonade all summer long…
While it may be true that the two reviews we’ve run on the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated have not been favorable, we didn’t mean to make the Teabaggers and Palin-supporters who have deluged us with angry comments so furious — we just thought the fact that Palin’s movie sucked…
Three weeks and change after Colorado State Parks issued its long-awaited approval of the artist Christo’s proposed “Over the River” (not to mention several more years of infighting and bureaucratic hoop-jumping), the project, which would suspend some 5.9 miles of fabric panels over a stretch of the Arkansas River between…
Rae McCall didn’t grow up wanting to be a cop. She didn’t dream of going undercover or busting bad guys. In fact, McCall was a wife, mother and waitress hoping to become an attorney when friend, Armedia Gordon, approached her with a tempting opportunity. According to an ad in the…
Strange, intricate art projects have a way of randomly popping up around the Westword office, but usually they come with some kind of semi-frightening note with a phone number, or at least an indication of their ownership — like terrorist groups always admit when they bomb stuff. Except we like…
With DSK (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) and his did-he-didn’t-he-rape-a-New-York-hotel-maid story all over both sides of the Atlantic, it’s not a great time to be French. The guy once seen as a top contender in 2012 presidential election pool has now become a poster-child for what Americans think is wrong with the French…
