Artists from the Arts District on Santa Fe have been working with UrbiCulture to create a new urban farming space, Gabrielle’s Garden, in the La Alma and Lincoln Park neighborhood, adjacent to the art district. The farm, which is just one of the many spaces UrbiCulture farms each year in…
Following in the footsteps of Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of Western Writers,” takes a big pair of shoes. Though we don’t know what size award-winning Colorado author Kent Haruf wears, we do know that his literary prowess is deserving of the Wallace Stegner Award, given annually by CU-Boulder’s Center of…
It’s a funny thing about the exhibition business: Sometimes multiple solos are presented at the same venue that work in concert with one another and for all intents and purposes function together as a group show, and sometimes pieces by different artists are organized into thematic group efforts that actually…
Denver certainly has no shortage of Star Wars fans and they were out in, um, Force, this weekend to take in all the geeky fun that was StarFest 2012. The convention is an annual tribute to all things sci-fi, comics and horror, but every year the Star Wars franchise seems…
Bringing to light the journeys of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals within faith traditions, The Shower of Stoles exhibition opening today at Iliff School of Theology lets sacred pieces illuminate the story. “Some of the stoles tell a story of pain — they may have been donated by…
Outside of maybe The Sound of Music, it would be hard to imagine a musical as far across the genre spectrum from the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Wicked. So when musical director Julian Yarcho decided to merge the two in tonight’s charity fundraiser, when the company of Wicked will…
Denverites really have no problem with getting up early on a weekend, donning a ridiculous costume and drinking — all for a good cause (remember Cupid’s Undie Run?) It happened again over the weekend. Photos below…
The name for Vertigo’s new show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, seems like a commentary on the stratification of rural culture, but it’s not. “The designer who put together the card advertisement put the photo of the cowboy on the left, and she thought that was the perfect name…
We all know that Big Brother’s been watching us for some time, but that doesn’t make the amazing recent paintings of William Betts any less intriguing or, well, creepy. Accurately replicating video imagery taken by surveillance cameras, the acrylic-on-canvas renderings are pointed in their message and sharply detailed in their…
Five dollars buys you a collage by Colorado artist Kathy Fisher. Fisher creates collages for Art-O-Mat, the company that turns old cigarette machines into art-dispensers — one of which, since last month, has made its home at the VSA Colorado/Access Gallery on Santa Fe Drive. Fisher took some time to…
The new History Colorado Center, at the corner of 12th Avenue and Broadway, is clearly the most accomplished, developed and significant design ever done by Tryba Architects. In fact, the museum, which opens to the public on April 28, crowns David Tryba, the head of the firm, as among the…
Among the lines delivered at poetry slams, one is often repeated: “The point is not the points; the point is the poetry.” This has never been more true than over the last week and a half in Denver, when all three of the city’s national teams — Slam Nuba, the…
“While President George H.W. Bush had been known for saying ‘Read my lips,’ I began urging colleagues and reporters to ‘Read my pins.'” — Madeleine Albright. That’s the basic story behind Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, an exhibit opening Sunday at the Denver Art Museum. A showcase of…
First rule of Soundpainting: You do not have to be a virtuoso. And from there, the sky’s the limit: It doesn’t matter how old you are, what you play — if anything — and whether or not you can even read music. Soundpainting is a kind of improvisational “Simon Says”…
Julie Puma had a month to put together her new show, Let’s Get it Straight, and she diverted from painting, her usual medium, into snapshot aesthetic photography. The biggest challenge for Puma wasn’t the medium, however. Rather, it was spotlighting her own personal life. Let’s Get it Straight” offers a…
Luis Alberto Urrea really is the story he writes in so many ways: A reporter, poet and novelist, he’s covered the illegal immigrant story from the front lines, where he once worked as a relief worker, and found pieces of himself in the fictionalized retelling of the history of his…
With a soldering iron, Mike McClung creates intricate burn outs out of vellum and cold-pressed paper and arranges the paper to create visual arrays. McClung’s work will show in Connections, a new show starting Friday the 13th at Space Gallery. Aside from showing at Space, Art and Soul Gallery in…
Simon Zalkind, curator of the Mizel Center’s Singer Gallery (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, www.maccjcc.org), has mounted a show, as so many others have, honoring the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. His entry, which runs through April 29, is the wonderful Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin, made up of paintings…
Now in its 64th year, the Conference on World Affairs is a five-day mental fest that fires up at the University of Colorado Boulder campus today. Since the first CWA in 1948, thinkers from the forefront and fringes of science, politics, spirituality, medicine, academia and the arts have convened every…
Leon Gallery strives to bring in artists with unique concepts — from Jimmy Descant’s crutches sculptures, commissioning street artist Impossible Winterbourne to make their door sign, to the live circus opening of The Mad Tatters’ surrealistic Cirque Voltaire show. This Friday’s opening promises another dive into a fantastical realm with…
Just as you might be compelled to visit Yves Saint Laurent: A Retrospective again and again during its stay at the Denver Art Museum through July 8, you’ll want to keep coming back to the gift shop, which is bursting with a sense of style inspired by the YSL couture…
In this week’s art column by Michael Paglia, the Westword art critic writes that the images in Out Figured — which closes after Saturday, April 7! — raise “disturbing, or at least edgy, philosophical, sexual, psychological or sociological issues.”…
