The large spaces at Michael Warren Contemporary are extremely flexible, with lots of moveable walls that allow director Michael McClung to present different exhibits simultaneously. Right now the gallery has two interesting solos, both featuring the work of Colorado artists, with one in the large set of front spaces, and…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
There are days when you work all day at something and are no further by the end of the day than you were when you started. Sunday was one of those days. Victoria Salvador and I had both had late nights and were feeling a bit raggedy that morning, but…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Maria Barrera wrapped up her debut Colorado exhibition at La Cour Art…
Denver has a winning reputation — and not just because of the Denver Broncos. This city’s arts scene is renowned across the country, and for our annual Winter Arts Guide we asked a dozen people intrinsic to that scene a few questions about the state of the arts in Denver…
Though you might not know it since the Denver Art Museum displays so little of the collection at one time, the DAM has a wealth of architecture, design and graphics articles. Among the 12,000 objects are some dating back to the Middle Ages, but it’s modernism from the second half of…
Month of Printmaking: Mo’Print 2016 exhibits come into their own tonight, with lots of First Friday openings celebrating local artists and print techniques. Beyond that, this month’s citywide artwalk shows off old favorites, national stars, lovers of the natural world and emerging newcomers alike. Sushe Felix and Tracy Felix: Land Rhythms…
Springtime cometh! The inaugural Lantern Festival in Denver is a two-night event where people will light up the skies like in a traditional Chinese lantern send-off, but with a Mile High twist. The festival will be lifting off April 23 and 24 from the Colorado National Speedway, technically in Dacono, but the…
Black Cube’s pop-up exhibition that opens March 5 in Texas will mark a lot of firsts for the nomadic museum. This will be the first time that executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell has taken Black Cube outside of Colorado, as well as her first time working in conjunction…
The biennial event Mo’Print — Denver’s Month of Printmaking — is taking over the city and the Front Range in March and beyond with shows, tours, workshops and related events celebrating every aspect of printmaking, from nuts-and-bolts monotypes and woodcuts to the more complex realms of intaglio and lithography. For…
Collin Parson, exhibition manager for the Arvada Center, has made highlighting Colorado art his prime directive. He did so with his first Art of the State in 2013, and now Art of the State 2016, a free-for-all juried show open to artists across Colorado, is on display in Arvada. From…
The idea behind the Mayday Experiment has always been about gentle conversation, to both educate about and inspire sustainable living, but also to listen to people’s anxieties, fears or outright denial about climate change, and document this moment in time. I have always been aware that these conversations can only…
Denver has a winning reputation — and not just because of the Denver Broncos. This city’s arts scene is renowned across the country, and for our annual Winter Arts Guide, we asked a dozen people intrinsic to that scene a few questions about the state of the arts in Denver…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “My legal last name is Viggiani,” says the Denver-based painter and yoga…
The resurrected Rule Gallery in the Hinterland space in RiNo is presenting Red@Rule: Love and War, in which nearly all the pieces prominently feature the color red. In mounting a show based on red, the new Rule is taking a page from the old Rule’s exhibition playbook. Back in 1996,…
Every year, RedLine gallery and studios establishes a theme that it carries out with its shows and through its educational and social-services components. This year’s theme is “R/Evolution” — a simultaneity of revolution and evolution — and the current show, located in the capacious exhibition rooms, is Monumental. Dedicated to…
Denver has a winning reputation — and not just because of the Denver Broncos. This city’s arts scene is renowned across the country, and for our annual Winter Arts Guide, inserted in the February 18 edition of Westword, we asked a dozen people intrinsic to that scene a few questions…
Modern artist Herbert Bayer, creator of “The Articulated Wall” that rises by I-25 at Broadway, has made quite an impression on Denver. Now more eyes are seeing his work here than ever, thanks to step-grandchild Koko Bayer. Two years ago, Koko started working on a documentary on Herbert Bayer; her mother…
Boulder is blooming with art-house cinemas this spring. In addition to the offerings at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series and the revamped Dairy Center’s Boedecker Theatre, the Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library’s main branch will now host independent first-run cinema screenings three nights a week, beginning Thursday, February 25…
There are only a few days left to catch Supraliminal, Michael Theodore’s impressive, site-specific installation at LoDo’s David B. Smith Gallery, and if you haven’t seen it yet, make time to do so —because it’s unforgettable. Theodore lives in Boulder, where he is on the faculty of the College of…
Things are always easier with a friend, but especially maneuvering 4’ x 8’ sheets of plywood through a table saw. Every weekend, Victoria Salvador and I have been getting together and cutting wood, piece by piece, crossing off our list and measuring twice. (And more than a few times, cutting twice…
Artopia curator and Denver street-writer Jolt brought a stunning highbrow/lowbrow mix of artists to City Hall on Saturday night, setting the scene for a night to remember. It’s the art, after all, that makes Artopia go ‘round. All photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Art of Artopia…
