Our readers went wild when they heard Rob Reiner’s cult classic, The Princess Bride is coming to the Paramount Theatre on April 21, accompanied by the film’s star, Cary Elwes. The actor will be presenting the movie, which has defined his career. Tickets go on sale today, at 10 a.m. through…
These are urgent political times, says Katie Maltais, managing director of the Curious Theatre, whose company is unwilling to wait until its next season to start blasting Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies.
Tilt West hosts conversations about art, between anonymous participants without hierarchy or titles.
David B. Smith Gallery currently has two shows on display: Chris Oatey and Dylan Gebbia-Richards are featured in one; Donald Fodness in the other.
Denver musicians and painters will join forces for a virtual reality experience this coming Thursday, when Beta Killers and Deep View present :”DenVR :A Virtual Reality Art Show.”
At the last Collective Misnomer screening, in December at the Dikeou Pop-Up, programmer Adán De La Garza blasted the City of Denver for closing two DIY venues in the wake of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, just before turning off the lights and presenting a program of deliciously plodding landscape movies — some wry, others philosophical — that challenge the way we see the world.
Bobbi Walker has created a group show, Amalgamated Contemplation, as her first exhibit of 2017. Two artists emerge as the starts of the show; sculptor Brandon Reese and the late Roland Bernier, a painter and mixed media artist.
After 25 years, Christo has abandoned the “Over the River” project on the Arkansas. Is Trump to blame? That’s what the New York Times thinks.
Robischon Gallery is currently showing eight solos, some small and most fairly large. But these solos resolve into a single coherent visual experience because all of the artists are dealing with the same issue: how to do something different with contemporary abstraction, arguably the style of our time. And they all succeed in their own distinctive ways.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to Student “Failures”
Tickets go on sale for the annual Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, DINK, today, January 24, at noon. Founded by the team that started Denver ComicCon, the event spotlights the most innovate artists working on the fringes of the graphic novel and comic-book universe.
As a nomadic contemporary art museum, Black Cube and its executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell have already proven that they’re here to “turn the idea of a museum on its head,” pushing limits in the contemporary art world. With the announcement of the 2017 artist fellows, Stell is…
When Michael “Eyedea” Larsen passed away in his sleep, on October 16, 2010, the world lost one of its great musical talents.
Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday it would not to join dozens of art institutions and hundreds of artists who went on strike, on inauguration day, attempting to shut down the art world in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
DIY stands for “do it yourself” — not “pay a pro to do it for you.” Yet that sums up a Denver planner’s advice to DIY artists, many broke, all wanting to avoid a fire like the one that burned down Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse, killing 36 young people, in December.
Kelsey Montague is an uplifting Colorado artist whose murals can be found sprinkled around the Denver metro area. She just completed her first street-art piece of 2017, in the RiNo Art District: wings made of red, black, white and patterned hearts that she hopes will unite the city and country during cultural turmoil. #WhatUnitesUs is on the east-facing wall of Il Posto, at 26th and Larimer streets.
As a curator, Daisy McGowan is interested in going beneath the surface of every work she places in a group exhibition.
Donald Fodness has been seeing double in the studio, from the looks of Duets, a series of drawings and bronze sculptures comprising his inaugural solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo.
Get ready for Artopia 2017, which will celebrate Denver’s street art with four areas dedicated to some of the Mile High City’s most iconic avenues: Larimer, Santa Fe, Colfax and Federal.
The Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities is a little jewel box set among the behemoth buildings of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Though small, it has a big job: to build a bridge between the sciences that dominate the campus and the largely neglected arts. The Fulginiti’s…
Colorado Springs’ U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn spent some of last week yanking down a painting by a Missouri high-school student that depicted a cop as a pig. Today, the painting, a part of the Congressional Art Competition, came down for good, in response to Lamborn and other lawmakers’ criticisms of the piece and House rules.
The Whiteout fashion show is one of the highlights of Artopia. This year’s show will be better than ever — which is why you should buy your tickets before prices go up at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 17.
