In these days of digital photography, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time the Polaroid existed. Instant photos had a completely different meaning when you could hold them in your hand, and Denver artist Tiffany Mulherin played with those instant prints until she came up with her own…
As Museo de las Americas director Maruca Salazar told us when opening the show Wixaritari: Huichol Art of Mexico, color is more than a simple sensation for the Huichol people, who imbue it with spiritual characteristics and see themselves as vessels of its natural life force. There’s something lovely and…
As First Friday regulars can attest, when the Art District on Santa Fe throws a shindig, it goes all out. That’s especially true in the case of the annual Santa Fe Art District Best Of exhibition, which awards artists who show in the district two ways: first, with awards given…
Heading into the airing of tonight’s episode of Celebrity Wife Swap on ABC, the talk around here focused almost exclusively on Pastor Ted Haggard, who had to leave his mega New Life Church in Colorado Springs five years ago after “the scandal.” But when the show aired at 8 p.m…
Vivianne Le Courtois, a Westword MasterMind, uses unusual items to make art: artichokes, gym shoes, junk mail, junk food, potato peels…and now, with any luck, your old T-shirts. For an installation that will debut at Le Courtois’s solo show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on February 23, the…
Even the menacing Sue Sylvester can’t stop the rising art department of Fairview High School in Boulder. The 900 students in the department — including all students in choirs, drama classes, bands and orchestras — collaborated on an entree for Glee Give a Note, a contest sponsored by Fox, Ryan…
Evergreen Lake was lit up by flood lights last Saturday night in preparation for Skate the Lake, part of the Evergreen IceFest. While workers cleared the lake to create a skating rink, Michael Campe and his crew from Colorado Ice Sculptures were hard at work carving a putt-putt golf course…
I never make resolutions or even expect to be able to stick to one; it’s my nature to veer, day-to-day, with the winds and the waves. If I’m hungry, I eat. If I want to be alone, I cocoon. That’s just me, but I’m not at all against the idea…
The road to Alderon was paved with good intentions, as was One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, but unfortunately the Force can’t fix everything. Charlie Ross’s solo adaptation of the first (not the second, thank Emperor Palpatine!) Star Wars trilogy was presented to a packed house at the Lone Tree Arts Center,…
Leo Franco is a veteran of the Denver art scene, showing his work at Spark Gallery and Zip 37 on a regular basis. But he still has to work a second job. In fact, he laughed when asked if he was a full-time artist. Hard. “I have two kids in…
In the past three months, Civic Center Park has been lived in, spray-painted on, used as a venue for First Amendment freedoms and even set on fire during its tenure as the physical and ideological home to Occupy Denver. This month, the well-loved and well-used park earned national attention on…
The stunning Robert Adams: The Place We Live, at the Denver Art Museum, closes on New Year’s Day, so this is your last chance to see it. The show highlights the photography of Adams, who became famous in the 1950s by taking pictures of development as it encroached on Colorado’s…
There are few things in this world more terrifying or awe-inspiring than the experience of witnessing a nerd achieve his life’s dream. There are probably more than a few cases in which this involves Star Wars or, if pressed, its nemesis that ends in Trek, but Charlie Ross’s has got…
Though not part of an ambitious series of events like Pacific Standard Time, our own MCA Denver is participating in the same zeitgeist anyway, with West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977. The show, organized by director Adam Lerner and his wife and co-curator, Elissa Auther,…
Graffiti-art aficionados will agree — Street Cred, the exhibition now at the Longmont Museum, earns its title. Direct from new Longmont director Wes Jessup’s former workplace, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, it offers an in-the-moment overview of California graffiti writers, as well as a local showcase tailored in-house by…
The Westword office is closed until Tuesday, December 27, and this blog will be taking a break until then — although Show and Tell writers are definitely out and about, experiencing everything this city has to offer. We suggest you do the same; there are hundreds of activities featured in…
Bicycle vs. Homing Pigeon vs. Moped from Village Voice Media on Vimeo.We’ve been rolling off lists this week like there’s no tomorrow, and maybe there isn’t, considering that pesky 2012 Mayan prophecy and all that. Earlier this week, Jef Otte presented his 10 best moments in Denver arts list, riffing…
If you missed kART Across America at the Denver Starz Film Festival, the time you have left to see it on the big screen is limited. So if you can avoid your holiday plans for one more day, see it tonight. The film, directed by Denver natives and thoughtful funny…
Sandi Calistro got her first tattoo in Maine when she was sixteen, and later decided to become a tattoo artist. Accompanied by her dad, she came to Colorado and sold her flash sheets (the sheets of art on the wall of a tattoo parlor) door-to-door at tattoo shops. A local…
“Imagine how cool it would be if you were an eighth grader visiting the Judicial Center and you saw a word that you had submitted in the art,” says Jon Sarche, public information coordinator for the Colorado Judicial Department, on its current art endeavor. The department is asking middle-school students…
The art of the West’s introduction to the world came in the 1970s, when paintings and photos from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries suddenly became highly sought after in the marketplace. By now, this kind of emblematic Western work — stunning landscapes, charming scenes of cowboys and Indians…
The Cheap Christmas Crapfare at the Museum of Contemporary Art was a festival of joyful hipsters, free eggnog — and the finest paper plate wreaths in the city. Part of MCA Denver’s “Black Sheep Fridays,” Friday evening’s crappy craft-making party was lively, and there was plenty of crap to keep…
