When thousands of protesters, including prominent scientists and politicians, hit the streets of Denver as part of the national March for Science on April 22, some demonstrators took note of which groups were there and which were missing. One institution that was notably absent: the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
At the April 4 meeting of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, commissioners received a Request for Deaccession report from Denver International Airport that proposed removing three of DIA’s original pieces, part of a $15 million-plus art collection made possible by Denver’s policy that sets 1 percent of every major construction budget aside for art. “SkyDance” never really worked, and the floor in the Great Hall is apparently doomed by big expansion plans. But why get rid of Michael Singer’s “Hidden Garden”?
The Robischon Gallery has a talent for assembling separate shows that seamlessly interact with one another, and that’s definitely the case with a trio of exhibits on display now. They’re connected by both a goth mood and the enigmatic quality of the included works.
To Eric Shumake, art and activism are one and the same, especially when it comes to the plight of Denver’s homeless population.
Square Product Theatre artistic director Emily K. Harrison isn’t afraid to shake things up or try new things.
Denver gets ribbed for its fixation on blue public art — the curious blue bear that welcome visitors at the convention center and the demonic rearing horse at the airport both evoke controversy, each in its own way. But for Konstantin Dimopoulos, who arrived in Denver last week to begin painting trees blue in the Denver Theatre District, blue public art is no joke.
The Denver arts community is so populated with self-starting creatives that even the most penny-pinching locals have ample opportunities to enjoy free entertainment.
If you devoted the past week to spring cleaning and turning in your taxes, you missed some great events around town. Catch up on all the action in these slide shows.
Are you interested in collecting art but afraid to get your toes wet because of the cost? Quality artworks can be had at affordable prices, if you know where to look and what to look for.
The cornerstone of any library is in its stacks, where living records in the form of books and media sit, waiting to impart knowledge and share stories. When tasked with curating a show for the shelves of MCA Denver’s Open Shelf Library space, artist Derrick Velasquez began by deconstructing the library aesthetic and finding parallels in life, bringing together what might seem like a scattered group of collections in repose.
This past September Sandra Phillips relocated her namesake gallery to a smallish storefront on West 11th Avenue near Bannock Street which is just a block away from the Denver Art Museum and the other attractions of the Civic Center Cultural Complex.
“When we’re done with this conversation, I’m going to look like a big bum,” says Teresa Castaneda, laughing as she stands by the front door of her home on Elati Street. She’s petite and tan, and a shock of gray curly hair frames her face like a wave. It takes…
Two excellent shows at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center — Force/Resistance and Don Coen: The Migrant Series — have special resonance in the age of Trump.
History repeats itself. So does “famous artist” Phil Bender’s art. Denver’s artists are getting priced out of the city, again. And when Pirate: Contemporary Art goes to Lakewood, Bender and his multiplying art will go, too.
Tara Rynders leads a double life as a registered nurse and a dancer, but the opposing disciplines are more alike than you’d think, at least in Rynders’s creative universe.
Travel can be rough for vegans hellbent on sticking to their plant-based diet. But Dave Paco is here to help.
The female perspectives represented by each of these Denver artists are not delicate nor flimsy but supremely badass; their expression is powerful, non-gendered, non-liner and not-of-this-world.
Comedian Charlie Murphy, who performed frequently in Denver, passed away on April 12 in New York City.
The new Kirkland Museum, honoring Denver’s premier artist of the mid-twentieth century, won’t open for visitors until mid-2018, but a tour of the project shows it’s a true landmark in the making.
Divisions, Wonderbound’s latest performance, runs three consecutive weekends and is the launch of Denver’s Flobots tour supporting the hip-hop act’s third album, No Enemies.
Jeffrey Keith doesn’t want to bullshit people. And in the case of Storm Warning: Artists on Climate Change, a show Keith curated for the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery, that mission felt all the more compelling because of the urgency of its subject matter. “So much art in this…
Artist and Westword MasterMind Ravi Zupa doesn’t want the public to forget that police continue to kill unarmed black people – even as the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration have jerked attention away from criminal-justice reform and the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement.
