Visual Arts

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Moved by Denver’s artists who’ve been artists displaced by gentrification, Katharine McGuinness and Leo Franco conceived of the The New Underground, the current exhibit at Spark Gallery.

Giant soldiers made out of chair pieces comprise Victory, an installation piece designed to conquer adversity.

Zach Reini’s solo now on view at Gildar Gallery, Zach Reini: A Leaden Stride to Nowhere, might sound like a bummer, but the overall thrust is uplifting.

January gallery openings continue to go full-bore as venues wake up after the holiday season. This month is swarming with new shows on every level in Denver, but you can also welcome — and play with — a new interactive public-art sculpture in the heart of the city.

Last year Denver-based artist and illustrator Matt Dunne gave himself a task: He decided to watch a new movie in theaters every week and create a GIF — a short animated picture — to explain it. He posted every GIF on his Instagram.

Podcasters can develop oddly intimate relationships with their listeners, but it doesn’t get much more intimate than 80 Minutes of Gay Yelling.

Denver artists caught in the crosshairs of gentrification and rampant redevelopment do have alternatives to that predicament, thinks Cortney Stell of the Black Cube Nomadic Museum. Stell is all for seeing artists who feel marginalized in the here and now stop complaining and start changing, by devising new models to replace the old-school ones that aren’t working anymore.

Many readers greet Mondays with weariness. But the beginning of the week also means a fresh list of opportunities to enjoy life in the Mile High…all for free.

An anonymous “idiot” left his mark on the Ponti building at the Denver Art Museum. Was the graffiti vandalism or legitimate commentary?

In its new Lakewood home, Pirate’s shows have set a very high standard. Two more opened January 5.

When Pope Francis derogatorily took on the culture of modern gender-reassignment technologies and deemed them a part of a “utopia of the neutral” in a 2017 speech, Denver artist and Cabal Gallery member Mar Williams decided to strike back.

It must have been just a handful of hours before the groundbreaking at the Denver Art Museum’s iconic Gio Ponti building on Wednesday morning that some idiot got inside the protective construction fence surrounding the landmark, and vandalized with idiotic graffiti the west side of the building.

Buy a new Late Night ticket for $15, which gets you into The Church after 10 p.m. on February 23 for two more hours of art…and the music will continue until 1:30 a.m.!

The weekend is nearly here, and Denver’s comedy nerds, music appreciators, and animal lovers have given us plenty of reasons to celebrate.

Following several years of preparation and planning, and three months after the world-famous Gio Ponti-designed Denver Art Museum tower was closed, the DAM held a ceremonial ground-breaking on January 10, signaling the start of a three-year rehabilitation project.

Exhibits opening this week run the gamut in subject matter, from works by tattoo artists to an installation of mind-blowing light sculptures by nonegenarian Dorothy Tanner.

Known for his color-coordinated mosaics of fashion photos taken impromptu on the street, New York Times fashion columnist Bill Cunningham had a blithe eye for style and a knack for being in the right place at the right time.

Poet Catherine O’Neill Thorn has poured her energy and talents into the community through Art From Ashes, the non-profit she founded to empower youth through art and poetry. Now the community is returning the favor with a benefit to help with O’Neill Thorn’s medical bills.

Michael Duran plans to serve some meaty fare at BTD Stage.

Michael Warren Contemporary often shows artists associated with Colorado who do not live in Denver, and that’s the case with two solos currently on display in the gallery.

Monday rears its morose head once again, but rather than fret over the upcoming workweek, why not look ahead to another great week of free entertainment provided by Denver’s creative community?