Visual Arts

The Denver Theatre District has turned a 700-square-foot, unrentable space in the Colorado Convention Center into an experimental arts incubator called Understudy.

Lawrence Argent, one of Colorado’s most successful and well-established artists, died suddenly in Denver on October 4, 2017. Argent’s most famous local commission is “I See What You Mean,” on the 14th Street side of the Colorado Convention Center. The piece, which was done in 2005, immediately earned an endearing…

The crown jewel of Denver’s podcast scene, Changing Denver is a living chronicle of a city in flux. Host Paul Karolyi consults local artists, historians and other experts to trace the evolution of the Queen City’s character, one neighborhood, landmark or personage at a time.

The way Lynne Collins, artistic director for the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, has transformed the venue’s second stage is genius: Flying in the face of theatrical cutbacks at a time when even the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company no longer supports an in-house repertory company, she’s done just that — brought back the idea of the old-school ensemble, using local talent and a collaborative ethic.

Pop art or political art? Pick your poison: The October 2017 First Friday in Denver is rife with big art, identity politics, fun and games, and a whole lot of eye candy. Here are six places to wander, near and far, through art shows of all sizes.

Lonely Planet recently released its roundup of the ten coolest neighborhoods in the world. Now the travel media company is drilling down with “Hot ’hoods in the US: 10 neighborhoods you need to visit.” Two of them — Sunset Park in New York and Frelard, Seattle — are repeats from the…

William Stockman became a star in Denver’s art scene in the 1990s via ambitious solos filled with beautifully crafted, nominally representational works with enigmatic subject matter. And he’s still at it, as seen in the marvelous William Stockman: After Thought, now at Gildar Gallery. The paintings here represent a straightforward…

As October begins, Denver is rife with fun and free things to do,

Sheila Schroeder and Project DU FILM bring University of Denver alumni who work in the film industry and students together to make and distribute socially conscious movies.

In 2015, Cindy Gamel launched mixedupgifts.com, an e-commerce site selling gift baskets inspired by songs and bands. Now, she’s opening up a South Broadway storefront.

Looking for fun on the cheap? Here are ten things to do in Denver for $10 and under, six of which are free.

Denver Film Society has joined four theaters in filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Landmark Theatres.

Fall is here, and so are a host of new shows going in new directions in Denver and Boulder. Be adventurous and try all five of these.

September marks the beginning of the new art season, with the long-running shows of summer finally closing and the first of the fall shows opening at Goodwin Fine Art and Walker Fine Art.

Since the election of Donald Trump—and in some cases long before that—several Denver theater directors have been increasingly concerned with political issues and are expressing those concerns in their casting and choice of material.

When white supremacists and anti-racists clashed on the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Lydia Moyer, who teaches at the school, was out of town.

It’s easy to think that Denver actually condones graffiti because of the praise it poured on last weekend’s street-art-is-good-for-development CRUSH festival, in the once-graffitied, industrial neighborhood that’s now the RiNo Art District. But the city still has it in for spray-paint toting vandals.

The weekend is nigh, which can feel like either a blessing or a curse depending on the state of your pocketbook. So take heart, destitute Denverites, for Westword has scoured the local entertainment calendar for the best events in town that won’t break the bank.

Breckenridge Brewery will unveil its new packaging designs at a special exhibition September 21 at the Farm House Restaurant at Breckenridge Brewery, 2920 Brewery Lane in Littleton. The labels were created by German graphic designer Florian Schommer, and commissioned through a partnership with Chicago-based VSA Partners.

Discover new art spaces and firmly established faces this weekend at gallery openings on every level of the spectrum. Here are three new shows to tide you over for a week.

Digital animator Faiyaz Jafri has been on top of his game for as long as the medium has even been around, beginning thirty years ago on an Apple computer with the most basic of programming tools available. It was a painstakingly different onscreen world back then, but Jafri, now an internationally known animation pioneer who produces his own cutting-edge, award-winning work while also co-directing Hong Kong’s Third Culture Film Festival, still represents the gold standard in his trade.

The fall opener at Michael Warren Contemporary offers two back-to-back solos, both with work inspired by nature and the natural environment, featuring artists Allison Stewart and Heidi Jung.