Artopia 2017 Tickets on Sale Today

Get ready for the arty party of the new year: Tickets for Artopia 2017 go on sale at 10 a.m. today. On Saturday, February 25, our annual celebration of art, culture and fashion will once again fill City Hall, at 1144 Broadway. And this round, we’re bringing style in off…

Denver Art Museum Will Renovate North Building Designed by Gio Ponti

At the Collector’s Choice fundraiser on Thursday,  December 8, at the Denver Art Museum, director Christoph Heinrich formally announced that the museum would undertake a more than $150 million rehab of the North Building. He also revealed that husband-and-wife benefactors J. Landis Martin and Sharon Martin had pledged to contribute…

Review: Opposites Attract in Juxtaposed at Walker Fine Art

Through the holidays, Walker Fine Art is presenting Juxtaposed, a group show with an unusual mix of styles: It includes a fairly cogent collection of abstract work by five artists — and works by a single contemporary realist set improbably in their midst. The abstract pieces begin in the double-height…

The 21 Best Events in Denver, November 29-December 5

It’s beginning to feel a lot like December, which is why this week’s 21 best events list is packed with all things cold weather, including a hockey game, the Holiday Flea and a screening of It’s a Wonderful Life. Keep reading for more things to do this week and beyond!…

Artbeat: Crossover Displays Cross Purposes at Mike Wright Gallery

About a year ago, Colorado’s Doug Kacena came up with a provocative idea for an exhibit: He would paint over other artists’ paintings employing his own style, while those other artists painted over his works in their own respective styles. It was an unusual move, even if there were art-historical…

The Mayday Experiment: Post-Election Apocalypse Now

So, this is where we are. Like everyone else on the left, I have been attempting to process the results of the November 8 election and adjust to the idea of the new America we will be living in. But my immediate thoughts in the shock of the post-election haze…

“No Trump Anytime” Street Art Pops Up in Denver

Move your car, Donald. This isn’t a real parking sign; it is an artistic statement in the form of a wheat paste. “No Trump Anytime” has appeared in two locations in the Mile High City since the election November 9. The satirical version of a no-parking sign is an original piece by Plastic Jesus…

Review: Clyfford Still: The Works on Paper Is Drawing Raves

Works on paper — watercolors, drawings and prints — are the neglected stepchildren of paintings and typically considered their inferior. So it’s interesting to see that Clyfford Still, an artist known exclusively for his paintings, also used ink, watercolor, pastels and paint, all of them applied to paper, as an…

The 21 Best Events in Denver, November 15-21

Denver may not have seen any snow, but there’s been a flurry of activity around town. In fact, the metro area is buried in great events — large and small, intimate and extravagant, upscale and downhome. Keep reading for the 21 best events in Denver this week. Tuesday, November 15…