DADA Art Bar occupies a prime corner of Denver. This space at 2470 Broadway used to be in the middle of nowhere — dada, indeed! — but these days the Ballpark neighborhood is popping. After months of meticulous planning by Ian Chisholm, who also owns Amerigo right around the corner,…
With hair genius and photo-shoot stylist Charlie Price behind the scenes at the upcoming 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, there’s little doubt that the three-night event at City Hall, featuring national and local fashion shows as well as a hair show, will look good all weekend long. But the addition…
Denver’s First Annual March for Absurdity convened at Market street RTD station yesterday afternoon. Whimsical accoutrements abounded at this small but dedicated gathering of weirdos, united in a defiantly pointless exercise for the sake of spectacle. But oh, what a spectacle. While the marcher’s assembled costumes were all decidedly bizarre, the real show was on the baffled faces of passersby as they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on.
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 went back to college at the young age of fifty and…
You may not know artist Katrin Davis by name, but you’ve definitely seen her work around Denver. The artist’s collages have been used on posters and fliers for shows for years, pieces that incorporate vintage photographs with vibrant, retro-feeling colors like turquoise and coral. Late last year, Davis moved into…
When artists Adam Milner and Jeromie Dorrance decided to open an exhibit space in what’s essentially their living room, they did so in a spirit that’s both DIY and not DIY, by putting together a well-crafted show that covers a national gamut of contemporary work by five colleagues in the…
Artist House Tour Series featuring Mark and Kristen Sink
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a bi-weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
The Stanley Film Festival just announced its opening-night film and other special, scarey events for the four-day fest, which kicks off April 24 at the historic Stanley Hotel. “The Stanley Hotel is consistently voted one of the most haunted hotels in the world, and they give over 75,000 ghost tours…
One month into its three-month stay in Denver, Monkey Town 4 — the fine-dining experience in a video cube brought here by returning hometown kid Montgomery Knott, who fine-tuned the concept for several years in Brooklyn — is generating a buzz as more and more people suspend reality for two…
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. “The gallery business can be extremely difficult,” says Eric Matelski, a Denver-based…
When she was in high school, Favianna Rodriguez’s parents wanted her to study to become a doctor. They supported her creativity, but subjected her to a string of math and science camps that monopolized her time. As an A+, super-star student, she went to college, found herself pregnant, had an…
The Month of Printmaking, aka Mo’Print 2014, continues this weekend with a variety of events, including tonight’s opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Niza Knoll Gallery for Printmakers 4. The exhibit features works representing the diversity of printmaking techniques — from woodcut and monoprint to intaglio and even…
Tattoos have become a popular modern art form, but Juli Morsella is exploring tattooing’s ancient, sacred roots and has put together an exhibition with works by artists from all over Europe and the U.S., examining tattoos from around the world. The show, Tattoo in Contemporary Art, opens Friday, March 21,…
For the past several years, a pair of alternating biennials have been presented in the month of March (though the shows and events associated with them often start in February and end in April). In odd-numbered years, there’s the well-established Month of Photography, and in even-numbered years, like 2014, there’s…
Michael Paglia visits Open Press in this week’s review, taking in an exhibit made up of 125 pieces by 50 different artists. Much of the focus is on Mark Lunning, printmaster and owner of Open Press, celebrating his work from the last 25 years. Continue reading for photos from the…
It’s not far off the mark to call artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy a force of nature, as many of her recent works grow out of a symbiosis with the natural world. And that’s what her new show, Nest/Shed, opening Friday at Mai Wyn Fine Art, is all about. Here’s a…
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. Last year, when Emily Przekwas’s grandfather bought her “a really nice camera”…
Artists often choose to take big risks: In 1971, Chris Burden made art history when he had his assistant shoot him in the arm; just last November, Petr Pavlensky nailed his scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square cobblestones. These artists’ transgressions were aesthetic choices; when Julio Salgado, who migrated to the…
Work by Max Kauffman, a former Denver resident, will be featured in a new show opening Saturday, March 15, at Black Book Gallery in the Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. Aether Ceremony “is a look at the interconnectedness of all things, the magic of every day and the sanctuaries…
Denver International Airport seems to have a thing for demons and devils. First “Mustang” earned the nickname “Blucifer” after it killed its creator, Luis Jimenez, and now a canine god has shown up in the middle of the Jeppeson Terminal. See also: DIA flying high as Best U.S. Airport for…
Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery in this week’s review, taking in two different exhibits. The main show, Emilio Lobato: The Measure of a Man, includes more than sixty works, most of them new,. The smaller show features new work from Emmett Culligan. Continue reading for photos from both exhibits…
