Fall brings variety to Denver galleries: From abstract visions and incisive figurative worlds to contemporary folk pieces, there’s art for every taste this weekend. Here’s where to find it. New Works: Heather Patterson and Barbara Sorensen, with Mark Penner Howell, Patricia Finley and Mel Rea in the back gallery Walker…
It used to be that the term “Western art” described work that depicted the scenery and lifestyle associated with the western states — typically, mountains, animals, birds and the people who live here. But in recent years, the definition has been expanded to include modern and contemporary art with Western…
One of the most fascinating artifacts of the Hollywood marketing machine was the film novelization: book versions of some of your favorite movies that started coming out in the late 1970s and hit their peak popularity in the 1980s, that most nostalgic of cinematic decades. Before VCRs, these books were…
Just a week after it was installed in a field near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Jeff Gipe’s monumental sculpture, “Cold War Horse,” has been knocked over and seriously damaged. According to police, a vandal or vandals hit the sculpture with a vehicle over Labor Weekend and then…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is one of this city’s great cultural treasures, and tomorrow, September 10, developers will break ground on a new facility for the museum, at the corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street. Dedicated not only to the preservation and exhibition of the…
Get those vacation requests in and start putting red X’s on your calendar, film fans: The Denver Film Society has announced the dates for the 38th Denver Film Festival. (Starz Entertainment’s title sponsorship contractually ended last year.) The twelve-day fest will unfold November 4 through November 15; the Sie FilmCenter,…
The folks at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts must be popping their corks with pleasure. A major new grant will help transform their physical plant — and fund arts grants to individuals as well. And the second annual Dairy Center Honors event, which will laud six local cultural movers…
It’s hard to keep up with Pirate. Shows run for only a short period of time, the place is only open on the weekends, and the exhibits come and go with almost no notice from the venerable old co-op. Because of that, my shout-out to an impressive pair of solos…
First Friday kicks off the holiday weekend with new exhibits big and small, including Jokes of Nature, an ambitious group show showcasing the art of the grotesque at RedLine, and Denver culture jammer Peter Miles Bergman’s retrospective at Dateline. And then there are these one-of-a-kind gems, lighting up arts districts…
The art of the grotesque has staying power, as RedLine development director Geoffrey Shamos, a scholar of Renaissance art from northern Europe, and local contemporary artist Donald Fodness, who has an affinity for the style in modern times, will both tell you. In the present, the genre in all its…
Fall is coming in faster than a crisp breeze, and so is news of a new season of film festivals, including two beloved fests that just announced their expanded line-ups this week. First up is the 37th Annual Aspen Filmfest, which is counting on the changing leaves to lure filmgoers…
Denver’s third Biennial of the Americas wrapped up its run last weekend as most of the official exhibits closed. Over the past few months, artists, innovators and experts had been charged with exploring the theme of “Now.” But the overall experience left many locals underwhelmed, as have the two previous…
Trine Bumiller: 100 Paintings for 100 Years, now at the McNichols Building, is unquestionably one of the best exhibits of the year — if only for the breadth of Bumiller’s vision. That vision took shape last summer when Bumiller, who lives in Denver, was selected to be an artist-in-residence at…
Plans? We don’t need no stinking plans. From the beginning, the plan for the tiny house has always been in flux. A lot of my initial ideas have been scrapped for lack of practicality – for example, a back door/escape hatch and the idea of having a washer and dryer,…
It’s the first Tuesday in September, which means it’s World Art Drop Day. Denver Arts & Venues is celebrating World Art Drop Day by dropping clues and miniature blue bears around Denver that resemble Lawrence Argent’s “I See What You Mean”; Arts & Venues will be taking photos of the blue…
With the cooling of the season comes the cooling of hot properties at the ol’ cineplex. But fear not, because Denver is ripe with plenty of alternative cinema fun, and the city’s best non-blockbuster venues have this month’s movie treats on lockdown. It’s time to harvest, so grab a basket…
Indie design blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she shares some of her favorite homes, taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Colorful poetic phrases, reclaimed materials and bold block letters grab your attention, while…
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. “Art is something I’ve always been drawn to — no pun intended,”…
School is back in session – sorry, students; congratulations, parents – and before we know it, fall will be here, ushering in cooler weather and pumpkin spice everything. Whether you consider that good news or bad, we do still have a few precious weeks of summer to enjoy -and being…
Women artists are in the spotlight this weekend as an international star in performance art gets a major survey down south in Colorado Springs, while here in Denver, you’ll find new work at the Spark co-op and and art party in the boutique gallery, Super Ordinary. Be dazzled and have…
At the moment, Matt Scobey’s back yard is his studio — and he’s been putting in ten-hour days there, laboring over the concrete forms he molds over things like grapefruit halves, basketballs, plastic water bottles and IKEA-shelving modules, getting ready for his solo showcase, Come Dig the Essence, which opens…
Summer has been a great street-art season. The city has welcomed over 100 new murals this season, ranging from pieces done with Urban Arts Fund grants to the Namta Mural Project to private commissions. We scouted out every mural we could find, and narrowed down the offerings in this incredible…
