Secret Santa shopping got you down? Head back to the drawing board at 6 p.m. this coming Sunday to whip up some pin-ups at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, where Shotza Ouzo and Chalita Bang-Bang (a playful duo who frequent Denver’s burlesque stages) will pose merrily as you scribble away. According…
While most television commercials pander to humanity’s desire for love, affection and acceptance, some ads go straight for our most primal instinct — that is, to employ a lawn mower for transportation to wonderful far-off climes in search of our ‘happy place,’ while carelessly wreaking havoc on our fellow man,…
The Denver Art Museum blockbuster Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs is scheduled to run through the first week of the new year, and although the museum no longer estimates attendance during a show’s run, it’s clear that Tut has been popular. Additional buzz has been generated by…
Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn’t the first time he’s taken this approach: reproduced art printed…
Superman provides the basic template: publicly mild-mannered and lame, but secretly able to jump tall buildings and dominate everything. The potential for variations on that superhero theme is basically endless — and particularly so coming from kids, whose superheroes, unencumbered by the conventions of the genre, don’t really have to…
Running out of ideas to geek on? Fear not. The 13th installment of Ignite Boulder showcased the unique perspectives of fourteen local geeks who want nothing more than for you to hear their ideas. Equipped with twenty slides, presenters were allotted five minutes to deliver their views on topics ranging…
Originally from China, Xi Zhang moved to Colorado seven years ago. He is an up-and-coming artist whose recent work confronts and explores identity and communication in our modern information age and globalized world. With many painting styles already under his belt, Zhang’s philosophical powers come to bear on a series…
We’re still knee deep in holiday flavor over here, so this week we decided to catch up with a ballet dancer to help us better understand how one would go about dancing around on a stage as a profession. We talked to Kevin Gaël Thomas, who is originally from France…
People are hilarious, and can be incredibly stupid. Thanks to the internetz, we now can watch this hilarity and stupidity unfold in myriad ways throughout the year. We’ve got rappers of all shapes and sizes, people getting hurt and basically being the complete morons we’ve come to expect from our…
One way to think of monkeys is as extremely ugly children — at least, that’s how we like to think of monkeys, because if you think of them that way, then everything they do is hilarious, even when they’re sad. So because Wednesday is by most estimates the most depressing…
In the ad industry’s constant flurry to be creative and original, boundaries are pushed — and sadly, every once in a while an animal is creepily made to look and act like a human. While anthropomorphism is almost always a bad idea — except in Japan, where there are more…
What do artists think about the city they live in, wherever that might be, and what does it mean to them? At Illiterate Gallery, a new show, Mile High on the Map, cast a few clues on the Denver point of view. We hit the opening on Friday night. Take…
In 2005, the City of Denver acquired more than 800 paintings and 1,500 works on paper from the estate of Clyfford Still (pictured) in exchange for the promise that a museum would be built dedicated to him. Construction of the Clyfford Still Museum is now under way just west of…
Small works, affordable art, crafty items, the unexpected: Tonight’s First Friday Artwalk will no doubt feature plenty of them all, regardless of whichever urban quarter you land in. And that’s a good thing: Not only do local artists have to eat like the rest of us, but everyone benefits from…
Considering it’s an activity wherein people look on while other people walk down a street and do things at the same time, it’s unsurprising that the least boring thing about a parade is usually the floats. Actually, a lot of the time, the floats are pretty awesome — like the…
Celebrities don’t really owe the world anything. They do what they do and we treat them like royalty for it and ask nothing in return, except these days for maybe a tweet every couple hours to let us know what they are doing and thinking throughout every day of their…
There’s hardly any denying that MTV’s 16 and Pregnant is one of the most crassly exploitative shows ever made. Just the inherent nature of its subjects — pregnant sixteen-year-old girls — lends itself to portraying those subjects as frivolous, vindictive tards completely unprepared for the monumental task they are about…
Now that we’re officially settled into the holidays, it’s time to start looking for folks that have seasonal jobs. What better place to start than a holiday elf? For understandable reasons, our elf has decided to remain anonymous, but regardless of the anonymity, you should still get a pretty good…
It’s never too early to plant the seeds of life-long sexual neurosis; in this day and age of growing tolerance toward the scourge homosexuality, we’ve really got to step up our efforts to instill deep self-hatred in our children at an early age. That’s where Chased by an Elephant, the…
Bailey Ferguson is hard at work in the world of art and design, trying her hand at any and all media. She’s been a painter’s assistant, a design intern, a freelance painter and chalk board artist, and she’s currently a member of the Pirate Contemporary Art Co-op, a photographer, a…
Dear Denver International Airport, You stress me out. It’s not you — it’s just that airports in general stress me out. You’re too crowded, parking is a hassle, TSA makes me take off half my clothing and then feels me up inappropriately, and then when I finally get to the…
If you read our post yesterday, you know that the Mayan Theatre celebrated its 80th birthday last night with music, costumes and a showing of the Wizard of Oz. (Don’t worry, there’s still time to enter our Mayan memories contest and win free movie tickets!) Westword photo intern Hunter Stevens…
