Visual Arts

Two of the Best Picture nominees have ties to the state.

Conrad Kehn was singing in the metal band Skull Flux when he first heard the avant-garde song cycle Eight Songs for a Mad King, a work with a birdhouse-shaped score by composer Peter Maxwell Davies that left mouths hanging open in the audience when it was first performed in 1969.

This weekend you can see work by a Denver old-guard artist or buy an affordable collage by the one and only Phil Bender, Famous Artist; revel in the culture of Casa Bonita as interpreted by local creatives; gain insights at a photorealist’s talk; or take in a new 2019 Month of Photography exhibition of photos by veterans.

Good things come in small packages at the Molly Brown House Museum this weekend.

The Denver native has a rare solo.

Have a blast and save some cash.

The artist will be in residence at MCA Denver all week, giving tattoos.

The artist lives in Longmont, but has shown internationally for 25 years.

From the MCA to Spark Gallery, gallery openings and arts events abound in Denver.

Denver and the Colorado Symphony have just issued a joint memo on the status of the concert hall.

Rodney Wood’s new museum is dedicated to displaying art cars.

The exhibit showcases some of the local scene’s brightest lights.

The People’s Fair, Denver’s oldest neighborhood festival, has announced it will not be coming back in 2019.

Valentine hearts and flowers are in your art stars this weekend, as are pigs, shows about the environment, artist-in-residence culminations, artist networking, immigrant issues and the transformative power of documentary photography.

In a way, this is really Colorado’s triennial.

Koko Bayer began wheat-pasting in 2015, putting up works of art around Denver that feature photographs by Herbert Bayer, her grandfather.

Get ready for the party of the year, a celebration of hip-hop through the decades.

The annual arts extravaganza returns March 1.

Arts enthusiasts dressed in their most fashion-forward attire for CultureHaus’s annual gala at the Denver Art Museum.

Enjoy yourself on the cheap.

Jordan Casteel’s first museum solo, Returning the Gaze, is a sweet homecoming and a measure of how far she’s come as an artist.

The show at Niza Knoll Gallery is only his second solo.