It was a generation ago, in the ’70s and ’80s, that the art of the Southwest — New Mexico, specifically — got hot. This led to a reassessment of the historic artists of Taos and Santa Fe and bolstered the careers of several contemporary artists working in that part of…
It’s hard to believe, considering all the work that goes into building a successful craft and flea market, but Amy Yetman’s picture-perfect seasonal Horseshoe Market only goes live for four days each year. Though she still stands by the one-day-only “get lucky” market model, Yetman began tossing around the idea…
“Have you heard of Gillette Syndrome?” That’s the question Cortney Stell, Black Cube executive director and chief curator, poses as she begins to describe this Thursday’s The New Denver + New Brutal discussion. “If a city grows really, really fast, a sense of community wanes. Gillette Syndrome is named after a…
The deadline came and went without anyone objecting to the application for a “certificate of non-historic status” at 119 South Broadway, a building that started life as the Webber Show and was most recently home to Kitty’s South, a porn palace. So while staffers with the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission…
While helping my mom move over Thanksgiving, I was looking everywhere for the handcart – when had I used it last? It wasn’t anywhere in the studio…and then I remembered, months ago, removing the half-built stairs from the tiny house when we went through the redesign of the interior, cutting…
In your high school ceramics class, the teacher was always watching to make sure that students weren’t crafting pipes or ashtrays, but this workshop encouraged it. The first-ever Puff, Pass & Pottery class was an experiment in art and cannabis consumption, with the goal of creating an an ashtray comparable…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Library data may not seem aesthetically pleasing, but artist Duncan Parks is…
Art can be an unforgettable gift, and local artists are making the most of the holiday season by putting up stunning work that won’t break the bank. If you’re out and about this First Friday weekend, here are some excellent stops to put on your itinerary. Fresh Art | 50…
The smell of beard oil and beef jerky is hanging in the air; if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of woodcarving and someone choking on hot sauce. This can only mean one thing: The men are here. Today more than eighty male vendors (and some co-ed teams)…
This past summer, RedLine founder Laura Merage launched another Denver art venue, Black Cube, which was conceived as a nomadic museum based out of a black metal container in the shape of a cube. The plan is for the box to be moved around and used for pop-up exhibitions or…
There have been many things keeping me from working on the tiny house lately — from typical seasonal sickness to a gigantic commissioned project with an insane deadline that ate up all my time for six weeks, and now with the holidays approaching I despair of getting anything done. But…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. If you’re one of those folks who thinks the color pink is…
If you’re headed to Denver International Airport this holiday weekend, whether you’re picking up a traveler or flying out yourself, be sure to allow plenty of time. No, not for flight delays or long security lines. Instead, you’ll want to take a new look at the twenty-year-old airport, where the…
Denver’s vibrant art culture has started to generate national attention, even getting mentioned as one of the town’s key attributes on all of those “best city” lists on the Internet. Although the Mile High City still has a ways to go in comparison to international art centers, it is nonetheless…
Some customers can be unabashed thieves of holiday joy. There are few things that promote grotesque pain and suffering more than working a retail gig from November to January, and for those who do these customer service-oriented jobs there should be hazard pay, hazmat suits, and free liquor and weed…
Street art beautifies Denver in a significant way, taking some of our city’s ugliest spaces — including problem graffiti walls — and transforming them into public art galleries that are respected and revered by the community. Although the street-art season will come to an end with the colder weather, the scene is…
Weird imagination and the artistic process are the focus of shows opening around the metro area this week, from Donald Fodness’s cuckoo-clock installation at BMoCA to Access Gallery’s showcase for a young artist going big. Here’s where you can get your fill of adventurous art before the holidays hit. Donald…
After World War II, downtown Denver started to decay, and movie palaces disappeared. The Curtis Street pleasure row came down, and the grand old houses that remained turned into adult-film showrooms, places that sold beer, too, dark and dangerous and filled with stink. (The tradition of dirty movies downtown is old…
Point Gallery focuses on contemporary representational imagery, as with the pair of exhibits on view there now. In the front spaces is Michael J. Dowling: Forgotten Scoundrels, which comprises drawings and paintings of people and animals. Dowling, who grew up in Colorado, studied with Amy Metier and John Hull here…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 — and our presale on tickets ends tonight! This is the best deal on tickets you’ll find, so get yours now and then join us on Saturday, February 20, at Artopia 2016 — a night of art, culture and…
There are ghosts on the grid. The new owners of what was once the Webber movie theater at 119 South Broadway recently applied for a certificate of non-historic status — a first step toward allowing the building to be demolished. Losing landmarks is nothing new in Denver; waves of development…
Mike McClung, the director of Michael Warren Contemporary, has put together two interesting solos that are midway through their runs. The shows are extremely compatible, as both focus on artists who work with geometric compositions, though each does so in a thoroughly individual way. In the large set of spaces…
