True Coloradans — and swarms of tourists — head for the hills to recreate each summer, but how do you keep the folks entertained after the sun goes down? Lots of mountain towns celebrate the flipside of playing in the sun with regional theater and fun, family-friendly repertory rosters. Maybe…
Welcome to July, baby, where the heat isn’t only on the pavement and the fireworks aren’t just in the sky, but on the big screen too. Let our chronological list lead you and your Popsicle-stained fingers through an ice cream truck’s worth of movie goodies in Denver this month. 10)…
Nature’s Line, the lyrical group show now at Space Gallery, is a worthy followup to the impressive Pattern, which was presented there earlier this summer. In Pattern, the theme was repeated imagery, as the title suggests. This time, the subject is the organic line, which is also conveyed in the…
It’s hard to sustain passion over a long-term project. Setbacks – like the broken windows – feel monumental. Timelines and schedules are thrown out those broken windows as lack of experience and weather affect intentions and plans. Even the commitment of writing this blog each week gets tangled in my…
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. Painter Mike Rogers has his talented hands in several things, and one…
Hal Gould, who was a force of nature when it came to photography, died June 25 at the age of 95. A photographer and photo dealer, Gould was also an advocate for photography’s place in the fine arts — a campaign he led long before the idea became fashionable or…
Doc Twentieth-century art history often focuses on the Coasts, but here in Colorado a colony of artists, many of them well-schooled abroad before settling in the West, were producing quality — and in some cases, world-class — work. More than fifty of them, including such names as Paschal Quackenbush, Louise…
Yoko Ono is a towering figure in the twentieth-century art and music worlds. She was one of the main artists behind the Fluxus movement, and her performance and visual art and sound experiments had made her famous before she ever met her future husband, John Lennon of The Beatles. Lennon…
The Aurora Arts Festival, an interactive, kid-friendly artistic adventure, returns to Fletcher Park on Saturday, June 27, with entertainment ranging from an array of dance, musical and poetry performances to the chance to watch an ambitious, eight-story work in progress by local artists Jonathan Lamb and Michael Ortiz, also known as…
The Sie FilmCenter was flooded with hundreds of television industry types and fans last weekend as SeriesFest: Season One, an ambitious new television and storytelling event, made its debut here in Denver. Programming included the latest offerings from some big networks, and audiences not only got a first peek at…
The Denver County Fair made international news last year with the introduction of its pot pavilion, surely a first anywhere in the world. But thrill is gone, and that party’s over – fair organizers today announced that the timely experiment won’t be back at this year’s fifth annual three-day event…
There has been a lot going on in and around the Denver Art Museum recently — so let’s get started. Last year, William Morrow left the DAM after an extremely short tenure as the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. His departure was seemingly by mutual…
Recently I stumbled across a document on my computer while I was looking for something else. It outlined the initial plans for the tiny house, and brainstormed ideas. Many of them were crazy – folding walls and tables on the outside to delineate outside workspace for a studio, for example…
Do not come to North West Walls if you are afraid of heights. Artist Gamma Acosta, a Longmont native whose street art is a familiar sight around Denver, has spent the last few weeks painting these giant piles of stacked shipping containers in Brussels, Belgium. He is the only U.S representative…
On Friday, June 19, artist Roland Bernier died after having suffered a heart attack the week before. Until recently, he’d been active in the Denver scene, where he wasn’t just an accomplished artist, but an advocate. Art was his life, and Bernier regularly attended exhibition openings with his wife, Marilyn,…
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. “I think most artists feel their work has a spiritual quality, but…
Summer is here, and three Denver galleries have responded with exhibits that bring the sunshine and activity of the season indoors or, in one case, unloose work created under a strict set of rules over the winter and spring. Enjoy the long evenings of the solstice by taking in these…
Milton Melvin Croissant III uses the layered realms of digital animation to build wild, visual art realities. The Colorado native is also a longtime musician — and one of the co-founders of storied all-ages venue Rhinoceropolis — who has embedded himself and his work in the crossover worlds of DIY sound…
In June 1975, a few hundred people marched down Colfax Avenue, sans permit, to mark Denver’s very first gay and lesbian pride event. The group walked to the Capitol to demand equal rights for the LGBT community; it was one of several events around the country commemorating the Stonewall riots…
For the unusual solo Sabin Aell: The Buoyancy of Nothing, the artist has created a series of related wall pieces in the front spaces at Walker Fine Art; she calls them “wall designs,” and they function together as a single, coherent installation. The interrelated designs take up all of the…
There are two shows at Ice Cube Gallery right now, both featuring recent work by new members of the co-op. Each is interesting in its own way — and worth seeing — but there is some urgency since both also close this weekend. In the spaces to the right is…
I remember struggling in second grade to pull myself up on spindly, useless arms and do a chin-up, face reddening from both exertion and embarrassment as I listened to the other kids laugh at my feeble efforts. Not coming from an athletic family, I hadn’t realized that upper-body strength was…
