Yesterday, Netflix informed its users that from September on, its services are going to cost more and offer less — a pretty harsh blow to its wide base of users. The move came as a surprise to many Netflix customers, who have flooded the Netflix Facebook page, blog and Twitter…
Broadly speaking, realist work with a conceptual component has been around a long time, but it wasn’t until the 1980s and ’90s that it really took hold, arguably becoming the stylistic choice for contemporary artists during that time. Now the idea is well established, and there’s no shortage of it…
In a nutshell, a completely sustainable nutshell, the idea behind Design for the Other 90%, a traveling exhibition from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, has to do with the impact of good design on developing populations who must usually make do with no help from the design community at…
David Grinspoon is a local treasure, and we’re lucky to have him: The astrobiology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he’s not at all what you expect a scientist to be like. Instead, Grinspoon, who is also a musician and a funny guy, channels the downright psychedelic…
From my point of view, solo shows, and retrospectives in particular, occupy the top place in the hierarchy of art exhibitions. But group shows organized around a theme are a close second, and they are a staple of the summer season. At the moment, there is an astounding array of…
Tonight, First Friday attendees can take a break, grab a drink and a doughnut and raise money for Youth on Record, a non-profit that provides music classes for young people in treatment facilities, at Tattooers on Deck, a silent auction bidding off custom-painted skateboard decks from several tattoo artists, including…
If he were around today, it’s pretty certain that Neal Cassady, immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, would appreciate what the street artist Theo has been up to lately. Cassady was a born rabble-rouser, after all, and in more ways than one Theo and a small…
Jack Kerouac was here. He came here and wrote about it in On the Road, his most enduring work, and fell in love with Denver to the extent that, at one point, he actually bought a house in Lakewood. Yes, Kerouac was indeed here, but one thing that will not…
Advocacy for photography in the metro area just took a powerhouse leap forward: Late last week, the region’s two major nonprofit photography organizations — the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and Working With Artists — officially announced their merger, something that’s been a long time in the making. Together, they hope…
While we were researching asteroid movies for Monday’s honorary tribute to Earth’s near collision with an oncoming asteroid, one thing was pretty apparent: In the late ’90s there were a relative shit-ton of asteroid/meteorite/comet/basic space-junk-getting-hurled-at-Earth movies. Turns out, Michael Fairchild, author of Rock Prophesy, Hendrix researcher for the Experience Music…
The PlatteForum formula — pair a resident artist with a classroom of kids to co-create a body of art for a culminating exhibition — is currently in the able hands of sculptor and DU adjunct professor Kevin Curry, who often reclaims machinery, signage and the parts of technology to instill…
When an artist does work that is ahead of his or her time, it usually means the work is under-appreciated or even unnoticed. To some extent, that’s what happened to John Haeseler, who, beginning in the 1970s, created pieces that responded to both dada and pop art while addressing social…
At 11:00 this morning, an asteroid 5-20 meters in diameter came within 7,800 miles of Earth. Asteroids and meteorites (ever wonder the difference?) make close calls with Earth all the time, but no time in the history of the world was so harrowing as 1997 and 1998, when the Earth…
A God-send to every kid with a mildly sadistic urge to make drawing, like, a hundred times harder than it needs to be, the Etch A Sketch has been around for more than half a century, proudly complicating the shit out of tasks as normally simple as making a diagonal…
Back in 1948, a group of European-inspired artists known as “The 15” shook up the Denver Artists Guild with abstract work far removed from the Western-themed art Coloradans typically get associated with. This week, that group is getting recognized at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art with an…
In an effort to ward off the persistent tagging of its building, The Matchbox on Larimer Street hired a group of some of Denver’s biggest-name artists — with funding from Pabst Blue Ribbon — to cover its walls with odes to that storied hipster beer. Last night, those artists –…
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the fourteen-year-old creative writing school that has helped some of Denver’s best authors, is moving and consolidating its classrooms and office space into the historic Milheim House at 1515 Race Street. The house, built in 1893 for John and Mary Milheim, was originally located at 1355 Pennsylvania…
There’s something inherently unsettling about a person as perfect-seeming as Martha Stewart, something steely and cold within that gaze of practiced affability that belies a certain underlying strain. You get the sense that, like all things tightly wound beyond their breaking point, Martha Stewart must eventually explode. So it’s a…
The story of art in the twentieth century is well known. The center of the world in 1900 was in Europe, while American art was dominated by regionalism, a representational style derived from realism. With the rise of the Nazis and the advent of World War II, however, European artists…
A Ceramic Collaboration. To celebrate the fourth anniversary of his Plinth Gallery, which is specifically dedicated to contemporary ceramics, Jonathan Kaplan has mounted a show that highlights the clay scene in Colorado. Conceptually, the show has two parts, but it’s been installed as a single idea. The first part is…
House arrest isn’t just for political prisoners, Pol Pot and Ponzi scheme artists anymore. In the last few years, many celebrities have had the pleasure of serving hard time in the comfort of their own cushy homes — including Lindsay Lohan, who was placed under house arrest on June 17…
It wasn’t a big surprise to Sophia Dixon Dillo that a few technical problems cropped up during the installation of her Light and Line show at Ice Cube Gallery this morning; when you’re working with some 25 miles of fishing line, there are bound to be a few snags, so…
