World Football Film Festival kicks off in Denver in June

Just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Denver Film Society and America SCORES Denver are teaming up with the Three Lions pub and SOCCER ELECTRIC to hold Denver’s first annual World Football Film Festival. The festival, which is set for June 5 to June 8 at…

Carlos Fresquez on Los Phantazmas and Chicano art

The English translation of Los Phantazmas is “The Ghosts,” says artist Carlos Fresquez, explaining his art collective’s name, which evokes the invisible work that many Latinos, Mexicans and Chicanos perform in the United States. The four-person collective emerged in the mid-’90s, disbanded around the turn of the century and has…

Photos: 1959 Recreated at Clyfford Still Museum

Michael Paglia visits the Clyfford Still Museum in this week’s art review, taking in a recreated show based on an exhibit that Still himself organized in 1959 at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, New York. The exhibition marked the first time he was able to fully envision what it would be…

One Day in Denver: It’s a wrap!

On April 26, professional and amateur filmmakers alike joined in the “One Day in Denver” project, part of “One Day on Earth: Your Day. Your City. Your Future.” During this participatory media event, they documented the answers to ten questions on the future of Denver; meanwhile, filmmakers in eleven other…

Dean Sobel re-creates 1959 at the Clyfford Still Museum

The Clyfford Still Museum is one of Denver’s great cultural assets, but it’s also the kind of place that most people feel they only need to see once. Museum director Dean Sobel told me that 80 percent of visitors are new to the institution, coming for their first time, with…

Gallery Sketches: Five shows for First Friday

First Friday comes but once a month, with an embarrassment of gallery riches: fresh exhibitions, pop-up parties, people-watching, performances and great art. Organized navigation isn’t always necessary to have a good time on First Friday; still, it doesn’t hurt to have some direction — especially since there are some don’t-miss…

A who’s-who of women’s-identity artists at the Myhren Gallery

Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would…

University Park Home Tour is an open house for a good cause

As a Denver neighborhood with a rich architectural history, University Park is home to houses of all shapes, sizes and legacies. This Sunday, May 4, five homes in the historic area will open their doors to the public for the University Park Home Tour, an afternoon event that benefits University…

Naomi Haverland on the strange things that inspire her

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. Welcome to Naomi Haverland’s delightfully quirky world, where the art and the…

Dee Williams on living small — really small

After being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, Dee Williams decided she needed a big change. And she accomplished it by going small. Williams built her own 84-square-foot house, where she resides in Olympia, Washington. She’ll be at the Tattered Cover LoDo tonight to read from and discuss her new book…

Photos: Back to the ’80s at Totally Tennyson

The Berkeley neighborhood went back to the ’80s this weekend when Totally Tennyson took over the Tennyson Street strip from 35th to 46th avenues for a street crawl and party that ended with live music and a high-stakes costume contest at the Oriental Theater. Photographer Marissa Shevins brought back these…

BLOrk brings laptops, more to bear on The Call of Cthulu

If you’re scoring a modern silent film about ancient eldritch horrors, you’re going to need to do something a little different. An organ isn’t going to get it done; a piano is right out. Even a full orchestra, for all its dynamic range and variety of timbre, isn’t going to…

Art Makers Denver will create an urban art retreat in town

The first annual Art Makers Denver will present three days of interactive artist workshops at the McNichols Building September 14 through 16 — and registration is already under way. “It’s designed for anyone who has a desire to create,” explains Helen Rice, who owns Willow – An Artisan’s Market in…

Chuck Forsman goes solo at the DAM and Robischon

Although it gets plenty of attention for blockbusters like Modern Masters, the Denver Art Museum always has a raft of smaller shows on display as well. Right now there are nearly twenty, including Re Branded: Polish Posters for American Westerns; All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer; and Fracture:…

Vagabond Happy Hour caps off Big Read project this Friday

Since January, Lighthouse Writers Workshop has been celebrating literature, keying off The Big Read , a National Endowment for the Arts program designed to encourage people to read for pleasure — not because they have to — and this year highlighting Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. Denver has joined 77 other…