Visual Arts

Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, the world’s leading collector of failed superhero franchise leads, opens today. Reynolds plays Hal Jordon, a fearless test pilot who’s chosen to become part of an intergalactic peacekeeping force called the Green Lanterns. They use their power rings to harness the green energy of “willpower”…

Books, says Alicia Bailey of Abecedarian Gallery, are by nature interactive, so it’s ironic that the often delicate handmade books she usually exhibits can’t be handled too much. But when the two small shows Interactive Artifact and Music Bo(o)x open tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., the…

Homing pigeons are amazing birds. From a young age, they have the ability to find their way home to where they were raised from hundreds of miles away. This ability — which has yet to be fully understood – made them perfect for delivering messages in ancient Egypt, where people…

In this week’s edition of Gratuitous Randomness, we examine the antidote to the Scumbag Steve (and Scumbag Girl) meme — which rocketed to popularity with online communities like 4chan and reddit — Good Guy Greg. Here’s a curated list to get you up to speed on Good Guy Greg’s good…

Back in April, dancer Tara Rynders produced You & Me, a two-day, multi-artist performance piece that took place in and around her Denver home. As the final part in the completion of her MFA in dance and video performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rynders set up the…

Face it, we never really get rid of our toys after we grow up. They morph and change shape a little bit, but they’re still toys, though perhaps imbued with a different, more complex meaning. As kids, we play because it helps us learn to navigate the world. As adults,…

British actor Mark Rylance won the best actor Tony Award on Sunday night for his role in Jersualem — watch here as he trolls the audience (and everyone watching at home on TV) with this acceptance speech wherein he expounds on the finer points of walking through walls. We knew…

Films based on comic books can really suck. But every once in a while, the stars align and the movies manage to translate a graphic novel into a film that actually works on its own. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is one of those successes, an adaptation of Bryan Lee…

World renowned press conference showman LeBron James — or LeBenedict James, as he is known in Ohio — played in the final game of the NBA Championships two nights ago, while all of Cleveland, including his former teammates on the Cavaliers who weren’t busy with their day jobs as fry…

The Upper Larimer area may be hot today, but for pure aesthetics, it’s hard to beat a time in the ’80s when the area at 31st and Larimer streets was home to CORE New Art Space, the Sullivan-Bisenius Gallery and, right upstairs, three studios occupied by Dinnie Sherman, longtime Westword…

In just two years, Ice Cube Gallery (3320 Walnut Street, 303-292-1822, www.icecubegallery.com) has become one of the top co-ops in the city, owing to both its impressive facility and its high-quality offerings. Currently on display are two solos showcasing a pair of co-op members. On the north side of the…

We never ran into Dr. Livingstone last Saturday in the urban jungle, but we did see a lot of art during the district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio artwalk event, a generous come-on to the public by artists and gallerists into River North Art District. During the space of only…

It’s no accident that Saturday’s art-district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio event coincides with RiNo’s fledging monthy Second Saturday event; the two were tailor-made for each other, and the heart of the Second Saturday movement, the large art-studio enclaves Wazee Union and Walnut Workshop, has a lot to do with…

I live in a transitional neighborhood. At least I think that’s what it’s called when white people move into a lower-class section of town and start sprucing it up with Ikea-looking exterior siding and park their way-too-expensive cars in tiny driveways. Unlike the North side, I mean, The Highlands, this…

After nineteen years, the Art Student League’s Summer Art Market taking place this weekend certainly lands in the category of time-honored; the annual sale, which has grown to include works by more than 200 artists, both known and unknown, is also the perfect reflection of what the ASLD is all…

Last week, the Internetz finally caught wind of Denver-based artist Landon Meier’s exceptionally creepy Hyperflesh masks, most notably with a 2009 video of a creepy family walking down the 16th Street Mall with baby heads on. Meier’s masks have got a bit more traction recently with a perfect storm of…

For the past two years, the History Colorado Center has been going up at 12th Avenue and Broadway, but the public hasn’t been allowed to see inside the state’s new history museum — until now. Tomorrow from 2 to 6:30 pm, the Urban Land Institute Colorado, a land-use research and…

We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain’s eye Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all -“A Salty…

Bobbi Walker has pushed her gallery in a positive direction over the past few years, and Walker Fine Art is now a place to see noteworthy shows — something that wasn’t necessarily true five years ago. Part of Walker’s success is that she’s pulled in some important Colorado artists who…

The gods were smiling on Saturday night, when the food trucks lined up on Larimer Street and Tran and Josh Wills rolled up their Super Ordinary Gallery’s garage door on Microclimates, a finished Kickstarter project by Samuel Schimek and Rob Mack that comprises three environments based on their combined graphic…

First Friday is ostensibly about looking at art, but everyone knows it’s much more about free box wine and eyeballing the artsy weirdos that the monthly art-walk draws out — and while the festivities of course continue throughout the winter, it’s pretty tough to adequately get a freak on when…