Visual Arts

A new piece of street-art has bloomed in the Golden Triangle, along with some Spring flowers. The mural states, “Be A Good Person,” a relevant mantra in today’s cold world and also the name of a local brand that promotes positivity via clothing…

The Rule Gallery has decided to participate in Denver’s Month of Photography by mounting Basic Pictures: Joseph Coniff, which oddly enough is not made up of photos but is, instead, a painting show.

Ancient Rome left us mounds of olive-oil pots, says artist Dmitri Obergfell, and now we manufacture hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans that are buried in dumps, waiting to be discovered again as artifacts in some future millennium. Obergfell riffs off this and other ideas, through visual markers from antiquity and the use of symbolically loaded modern materials for Man is a Bubble and Time is a Place, a solo show opening March 23 at Gildar Gallery.

The Crossroads Theater is at another crossroads in its troubled ten-year history. According to Dennis Malone, director of operations at Hope Communities, which handles the building, the theater is behind on rent and may have to close.

Wall Writers, Basquiat Before Basquiat and Ryan McGinley, three exhibits focusing on twenty-somethings from the recent past, should be eye-opening for the twenty-somethings who frequent the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

The emerald ash borer is Denver bound, and Denver arts and culture organizations are bracing for a fight.

Comedy Central has announced its 2017 Stand-Up Presents lineup, and at the top of list of comedians who will be given a half-hour special is Denver’s own Adam Cayton-Holland, reports Sidesplitter. This is one hometown boy who’s made very, very good. Cayton-Holland, a former staff writer at Westword, has toured…

Photographer Larry Hulst has been shooting concerts since the mid-’60s. Over the decades, he has watched photography transition from film to digital.

The Curtis hotel has commissioned an amazing new art collection. Even if you’re not checking into the downtown Denver hotel, you should check it out.

Backstory: Western American Art in Context, a collaboration between History Colorado and the Denver Art Museum, not only tries to fill in our understanding of the West, but marks the start of a new chapter for History Colorado.

In case anybody’s wondering after the recent Saturday Night Live skit about a Denver Zoo animal pornographer…no… photographer, the actual Denver Zoo does not support animal porn.

Millions of people carry portable filmmaking devices in their pockets; with a smart phone, they can shoot, edit, color-correct and distribute a film with a few finger taps. Thinking about the old days — when people shot on film, sent their footage by mail to be developed, and cut-and-spliced their…

With the Month of Photography flooding city venues this month, Denver is drowning in photo shows. Among the standouts in this more intimate category are the conjoined solos at Goodwin Fine Art, Brenda Biondo: Paper Skies and Alpert + Kahn: Of Progress.

Painter Don Coen spent roughly twenty years working on a series of fifteen paintings of migrant workers, on display at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center through May 14. The artist, who entered his career as a non-objective painter, shifted toward depicting landscapes and ultimately portraits based on photographs. While…

Meow Wolf could soon be howling in Denver: The Santa Fe sensation has been exploring expansion to a number of cities, including Las Vegas, Austin and the Mile High City. But long before Meow Wolf puts its paws down here permanently, Denver will be sending one of its most beloved acts there: Avant-ritualists Itchy-O will offer a special, one-night-only performance at Meow Wolf on Saturday, March 25.

Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 performed in Denver last season for the first time, and will enchant audiences here again this month with The Stor(ies) of You and Me. Showcasing five pieces choreographed by Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager and former Houston Ballet dancer Caleb Mitchell, the performance explores various perspectives on…

Denver Arts and Venues and Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts organization that’s considering opening a spot in Denver, just announced a partnership that calls for Arts and Venues to contribute $20,000 to a fund that will be used to help Denver’s DIY and alternative spaces..

When Kate T. Parker started shooting photos of her two daughters, both tomboys, she noticed that her favorite pictures were those in which her children were totally themselves — not posing and primping as girls are too often taught to do. She started shooting other girls, and soon her images…

We’ve already given you some MoP 2017 viewing pointers in our must-see list of photography shows popping up all over the metro area, but a quick check-in at the MoP website reveals a much wider scope of what seems like an endless stream of exhibitions. Never fear: Now, we’ve broken…

One of the early standouts of Denver’s Month of Photography is Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, at the Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s off-campus exhibition space in the Art District on Santa Fe. The show comprises more than sixty works by a dozen artists, all natives of Muslim-majority countries. Most of these artists no longer live in their homelands, though, and have immigrated to the United States or Canada.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts has seen a lot of turnover in recent years, but one guiding force has been board chairman Daniel Ritchie. Today, March 7, the organization announced he will be replaced in that role by Martin Semple, an attorney who has specialized in employment law —…