The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council invites you to to show some Valentine’s love for its cultural outreach programs at the fifteenth annual Milagros del Corazón benefit on Friday, January 31. This is CHAC’s biggest fundraiser of the year; artists and friends of the group decorate hundreds of blank wooden…
Gamma Acosta has stayed busy blurring the lines behind street art and fine art along the Front Range. And now he’s showing his love for the Broncos and Peyton Manning with two new murals. See also: Kitty Marini’s watercolors pay homage to nature in all its colorful glory…
The idea behind the University of Colorado Denver’s seasonal Mini-School series is simple: invite a wide array of experts who are interested in talking about their chosen fields, and then invite the public to come learn from them — for free. The school has had a successful medical series for…
Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore: Dana Cain and Tracy Weil of the Denver County Fair just announced that the nation’s first Pot Pavilion will be part of the annual event’s three-day run in August at the National Western Complex. The new 21-and-over pavilion, to be located on a newly…
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. Michigan-born Kitty Marini is one cat with more than nine lives: She’s…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art announced today that it will move to a new complex to be erected on the northwest corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street — and that it’s taking that part of the current building that once housed Vance Kirkland’s studio along…
The 4th annual Art of Winter, which kicks off Friday, January 24, and runs through Saturday, February 8, will coincide with the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show. Although there is no official correlation between the urban showcase of Colorado Artists and Innovators and the snow sports industry’s biggest trade…
What goes in the collection stays in the collection, and that means a plethora of fine artworks often stay behind the scenes, unseen by the general public. The Arvada Center’s new exhibit series, COLLECT, brings some of them back out in public, by pulling together work from a variety of…
Though contemporary art went fully international more than a generation ago, certain qualifiers related to country, culture, history, sexuality, gender and ethnicity, among a raft of other factors, persist, and there is no indication that they will give way to some kind of worldwide sameness. This idea came to mind…
Michael Paglia visited the William Havu Gallery and the MSU Center for Visual Art for this week’s review, taking in two shows focusing on contemporary art. The show at Havu, titled Modern Vistas, features work from Colorado artists Sushe Felix and her husband, Tracy Felix. It also features sculptures from…
Just as American graffiti art comprises a variety of styles, techniques and intent, so does its Middle-Eastern counterpart — but that’s just scraping the surface of these art forms. Their differences begin with what’s most basic to the medium: alphabets and hand-strokes as unlike as East and West. And 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. When you buy glasswork from artist Sally Van Der Kamp, who works…
Joel Swanson: Left to Right, Top to Bottom and Critical Focus: Ian Fisher opened at MCA Denver Friday night, as part of curator Nora Burnett Abrams’s ongoing focus on local artists. While Fisher’s paintings of billowing clouds and skyscapes take over MCA’s Whole Room, Swanson has filled the David &…
Artist House Tour Series Featuring Andi Todaro
From Mouseketeer to sexy schoolgirl to shaved-head rebel, Britney Spears has created many dance-worthy tunes in her fourteen-year career. As part of the Alamo Drafthouse’s Action Pack interactive events, the theater will host a Britney Spears Sing-Along Dance Party Friday, January 17 at 9:30 p.m. (with a special encore performance…
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word — with a Colorado bucket list of the 100 things to do before you kick it. We’ve already shared Show and Tell Bucket List picks 25-16…
As a photography student at the Art Institute of Colorado transitioning into more professional work, Hunter Helmstaedter realized he needed more than the school’s studio space to carry out his projects — and a lot of his fellow students were in the same predicament. Inspired by the creative co-working business…
Wealthy oilman Frederic C. Hamilton — named this year’s Citizen of the West by the National Western Stock Show — has had a long relationship with the Denver Art Museum and currently holds the title of chairman emeritus of the DAM’s board of trustees. It was Hamilton who spearheaded the…
Earlier this week, we reported on Frederic C. Hamilton — the oil zillionaire whose name adorns the Daniel Libeskind-designed addition to the Denver Art Museum — who announced that he will donate his collection of 22 Impressionist paintings, which he acquired over the past forty years, to the Denver Art…
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. Retirement isn’t looking so quiet for baseball-loving Kyle Bannister, the second-career artist…
Frederic C. Hamilton — the oil zillionaire whose name adorns the Daniel Libeskind-designed addition to the Denver Art Museum — has been a longtime supporter of that institution. He has given the DAM tens of millions of dollars over the years and is currently Chairman Emeritus of the board, having…
Colorado-based pop star John Denver, who died in a crash while piloting his own plane in 1997 at the age of 53, would have turned seventy on New Year’s Eve. Almost twenty years later, he remains both beloved for writing and singing such songs as “Rocky Mountain High” and “Take…
