Herbalist Lynn Flanagan-Till is a natural caregiver, whether it’s her pets, plants or children that thrive under her watchful eye. The mother of three, with a fourth on the way, and keeper of a home menagerie of house pets also has a natural affinity for plants and their healing properties…
Artist Jaime Carrejo returned from grad school to El Paso, Texas, to visit his family shortly after the wide-open Chihuahuan Desert had been divided by a looming fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2008. The vast landscape had been interrupted, a sense of difference between the people of each country inscribed through architecture.
The Riverfront Park neighborhood, sandwiched between Downtown Denver and LoHi, is opening up Commons Park and the plaza underneath Millennium Bridge for events.
Ed Bryant, an award-winning science-fiction and horror writer who’d lived in Denver since 1972, died in his sleep February 10 after a long illness. He was 71. Although fans knew him for his stories, he was a beloved mentor and legendary teacher, too. He was also my neighbor, one of…
Longtime Denver Center for the Performing Arts trustee Jim Steinberg, of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, resigned from the organization, in protest of CEO Janice Sinden ousting Artistic Director, Kent Thompson.
The National Western Stock Show has corralled the Denver County Fair.
Stephanie Shearer, owner of new boutique Trunk Nouveau at Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, says Stanley is like no other retail space in the region.
Colorado artist Michael J. Dowling, the subject of a striking solo, You Already Know How This Will End at Leon Gallery, has built a solid reputation based on drawings, paintings and now sculptures that have an old-master classicism that he intentionally undermines through additions and subtractions, what he calls “redactions.”
Even Roger Gastman agrees: He’s the foremost authority on graffiti in America. But unlike your usual scholar, who stitches together history through books and research, Gastman knows because he’s lived it, beginning in the street and, later, as an urban anthropologist documenting it in print, through photography and on film…
Nearly ten years ago, philanthropist Laura Merage created RedLine with the goal of providing studios for artists and exhibition spaces for art. Considering the crunch on artist spaces in Denver right now — the Rhinoceropolis eviction being just the tip of the iceberg — Merage was prescient. At the time…
Most funders do the dirty work of deciding which earnest nonprofits secure funding and which don’t, behind closed doors. Not the Denver Foundation’s Arts Affinity Group, which hosted Art Tank — based on the cut-throat reality TV show Shark Tank — in which six community-minded art groups attempted to wow a panel of formidable arts administrators, Tuesday, February 7.
Cecily Cullen consistently brings beauty to the walls of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, which she directs, and routinely asks the hard questions lurking behind all that gob-smacking gorgeousness. That’s especially true of theCVA’s latest exhibition, Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, a photo-based show that…
MCA Denver’s Adam Lerner doesn’t simply direct the museum he’s led since 2009 — rather, he animates it, drawing artists and non-artists alike into the MCA with party-like openings and offbeat programs like Mixed Taste, a series pairing lectures on unrelated topics.
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.
