Some estimates put the number of Colorado’s undocumented immigrants in the hundreds of thousands. But for all the debates on how to treat locals lacking papers, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the everyday lives of the people we won’t call citizens. Five Boulder County Latino youths, most…
When the crowds came out on Santa Fe Drive to kick off Denver Arts Week on November 1, they found themselves crawling through a delicious collision of art, Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, in addition to the usual First Friday street life. Following is a picture sampler from photographer…
Pirate: Contemporary Art pulled out all the stops while honoring its long-standing traditions on Saturday night for its thirtieth annual Day of the Dead celebration. Families with painted faces crowded into the Navajo Street co-op for all-ages piñata-bashing, altar displays, a Muertos Mart for handmade Day of the Dead goods…
It’s common for artists and designers to rent studio space in a shared building, where they can work undisturbed without necessarily interacting with any of the other tenants. The Studio in Boulder hopes to combine the idea of separate spaces and a community atmosphere in a new type of shared…
The September flooding across the Front Range left lives tangled in its wake and victims struggling to recover their belongings — a photograph here, a cell phone there, a doll washed away in a torrent. For Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois, such objects and mementos, however damaged, represent the spirit…
Michael Paglia visits Robischon Gallery in this week’s review, to discuss several exhibits that focus on photo-based methods, including video. The main show features large photographic prints from Halim Al Karim, the well-known Iraqi refugee and part-time Colorado resident. Halim’s brother Sami Al Karim is the subject of another of…
Valkarie Art Gallery and Studio is opening in Belmar this weekend, just in time for Denver Arts Week. It’s the brainchild of Frank Farrar, Valerie Savarie and Karrie York, all veterans of the Denver art scene who will be showing their work in Valkarie’s initial exhibit, which also features ten…
CD sales have plunged over the last decade, but vinyl LPs have become increasingly trendy, with music fans still desiring a physical product to clutch to their chests on their way home. Recognizing this trend, several years ago musician Adam Baumeister (formerly of Bad Weather California) purchased a record lathe…
RedLine is both a showplace and a godsend for its resident artists, who have two years to work there and show the results, both in and out of the built-in community it fosters. It’s also an elegant gallery space that accommodates every kind of art, from multimedia and photography to…
The Robischon Gallery never disappoints: Not only is every show there worth seeing, but every piece is always perfectly installed in the elegant maze of showrooms that make up the place. Credit for this goes to directors Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran, who pull off an experience time after time…
On Thursday, October 31, the Laughing Goat at 1709 Pearl Street in Boulder will be the host of a Halloween party to help Boulder flood victims — and also to introduce some of the 200 people getting tattooed in the Boulder Tattoo Project, which we profile in this week’s cover…
Dia de los Muertos is a cause for celebration, a reason to gather with friends and family to remember the souls who have passed on. Mandie Erickson will make November 1 a day to remember by curating her first art show, which will have a grand opening from 6 to…
Think of Denver Arts Week as a celebration of all our city has to offer culturally, with the added incentive of sweet deals, from discounted memberships, restaurant meals and original artworks to a free Night at the Museums. But as a trip online to Denver Arts Week central reveals, there’s…
Locals have an autumnal cornucopia’s worth of entertainment choices on this year’s All Hallows’ Eve, and comedy fans are no exception. Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts has rapidly expanded its comedy programming calendar, making room for unique events such as the Halloween comedy showcase hosted by paranormal podcasters Werewolf Radar. The showcase will feature standup performances from event organizer James Gold, Ben Hutcherson, Aaron Urist, and Eric Henderson, with a headlining set from WWR’s own Jordan Doll. After the performances, the Werewolf Radar crew will attempt to contact the spirit of the season in a live podcast recording, which should hold equal interest for comedy nerds and ghost hunters alike. While Halloween is traditionally a busy night for paranormal investigators, the event begins at 8:00pm, well before prime ghost-hunting hours.
Zombies were solidly outnumbered over the weekend at the Exotica Erotica Ball, where green men and slinky cat-women canoodled with masked mystery ladies and scantily clad executioners. Photographer Brandon Marshall captured the sexy backlash bash in all its fishnetted majesty. Here are some of our favorite photos; you’ll find these…
Don’t expect a grand pastiche of Impressionists when you walk through the three exhibits that comprise Passport to Paris — while the Denver Art Museum’s fall blockbuster does have its share of Impressionist works, that’s only part of the exhibition suite’s story, which deftly provides the narrative of three centuries…
The Mizel Museum is launching the ultimate voyage of aesthetic voyeurism: Denver Collects, a series of programs that takes the public to the homes of local art collectors. These community members have graciously opened their homes to the events, which focus on collections of contemporary work by Colorado artists; each…
One of the most revered dramatic series in television history, The Twilight Zone continues to intoxicate viewers 54 years after it debuted on CBS. While still considered the crowning achievement within its TV sci-fi designation, it’s also appreciated outside the genre as a consistently engaging adventure of complex characters and…
Mary Voelz Chandler knows her structures. An art and design critic for the Rocky Mountain News until it folded in 2009, Chandler now works directly in the building field, as a communications specialist with G.H. Phipps Construction. She shared her knowledge in 2001’s Guide to Denver Architecture; now she’s back…
Hey, Denver: We’ve got game. For the last 35 years, we’ve been able to boast a world-class film festival, and this year’s 36th Starz Denver Film Festival only ups the ante. The full schedule, released on Monday and tucked into today’s issue of Westword (and also available online), proves the…
When Lanny DeVuono moved to Denver a few years ago to take the helm of the fine-arts department at the University of Colorado Denver, she was not only already an experienced professor, but also an accomplished painter known for her conceptual realism and a widely published art writer. Last year,…
Walk into TANK Studios, and you’ll find a raw but ordered space where one artist’s studio segues into another’s, and big windows, high ceilings and skylights unfold in a panoramic, circular pathway. Built out in a South Acoma Street warehouse in the Overland neighborhood early this year by a group…
