Ten Best Commercial Signs on Central Colfax

The Colorado history contained in the 26 miles of Colfax Avenue, the longest main street in America, is thick with truth and tall tales. You can read some of this history in the commercial signs that still exist on Colfax; we’ve already profiled the best commercial signs on West Colfax…

Gallery Sketches: Five Shows in Denver for January 16-18

From pop art to cutting-edge art to public art and beyond, there’s a little bit of everything to see this weekend, as gallery spaces kick off the new year with looks back…and looks forward. Keep reading for a look at some of the new shows opening this weekend, and one…

Art Car Creator Jamie Vaida Heads for the Telluride Fire Festival

When metal sculptor Jamie Vaida packed up and moved his Grand Junction studio to Oakland, California, a few years ago, he quickly found an audience for the architectural details he specializes in — like some of the coolest spiral staircase handrails and hottest fireplace screens you’ve ever seen — and…

The Mayday Experiment: The Tiny House, Down Cold

With the bad weather and the holidays, progress on the tiny house has ground to a halt. The cold has me thinking about this past summer, when the garage door to the studio was open to the neighborhood and we were working on the tiny house constantly. Passersby would stop…

Last Shot of 2014: Suzanne Heintz Goes Shopping With the Family

We’ve written before about photographer Suzanne Heintz and her too-perfect mannequin family, husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, who for a decade-and-a-half have been the subjects of an ongoing project called Life Once Removed. Somehow, Heintz’s ideal family has a way of always falling to pieces, as it did last…

The Five Best Denver-Area Art Shows in 2014

With scores of galleries, art centers, museums, artist-cooperatives and even ad hoc spaces around town, you’d have to make exhibit viewing a full time job in order to see everything — and even then, it might be impossible. But there were some shows from 2014 that no one should have…