In June 1975, a few hundred people marched down Colfax Avenue, sans permit, to mark Denver’s very first gay and lesbian pride event. The group walked to the Capitol to demand equal rights for the LGBT community; it was one of several events around the country commemorating the Stonewall riots…
For the unusual solo Sabin Aell: The Buoyancy of Nothing, the artist has created a series of related wall pieces in the front spaces at Walker Fine Art; she calls them “wall designs,” and they function together as a single, coherent installation. The interrelated designs take up all of the…
There are two shows at Ice Cube Gallery right now, both featuring recent work by new members of the co-op. Each is interesting in its own way — and worth seeing — but there is some urgency since both also close this weekend. In the spaces to the right is…
I remember struggling in second grade to pull myself up on spindly, useless arms and do a chin-up, face reddening from both exertion and embarrassment as I listened to the other kids laugh at my feeble efforts. Not coming from an athletic family, I hadn’t realized that upper-body strength was…
The women sported victory rolls and Rosie the Riveter bandannas while the men put on fedoras, suspenders and WWII military gear to dance under a blazing sunset at the the annual 1940s WWII Era Ball on at Boulder Airport on Saturday night. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document the…
Art cars, 3D printers, Tesla coils, plasma globes, Star Wars droids, a giant electric muffin: If it qualifies as geeky, chances are you could find it at the Denver Mini Maker Faire, which gathered together more than 100 makers and creatives of every stripe — crafters, hobby scientists, hackers, droid…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. The “femme fatale” has long embodied a woman who,…
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. “Entertainment art is kind of foreign to a lot of people,” says…
Variety is the name of the game in the Denver art scene this weekend: You can choose to take art seriously, view it with a light heart or stroll and browse through an outdoor art market where the collecting is easy. Here are a few new shows and events to…
When Colorado Maker Hub teams up with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science this weekend for the Denver Mini Maker Faire, the result will be a geekophile’s paradise, a thriving village of more than 100 tinkerers, artisans, tech nerds, robot-builders, Daleks and droids. We’d be hard-pressed to name them…
Sandra Fettingis did some amazing things during the first year of her artist residency at RedLine, including working with the Epic Program and ten high school students from Emily Griffith to make sanctioned street art that featured the teens’ own warriors. “We created this mural as part of a workshop…
Almost anything goes in contemporary art right now, which explains the wide range of expressions included in the three shows at MCA Denver. It makes sense to begin with Critical Focus: Monique Crine, which is installed on the lower level. The exhibit was organized by MCA curator Nora Burnett Abrams…
The Chinese Zodiac got it wrong: 2015 isn’t the Year of the Sheep — it’s the Year of the Otter. Photographer Josh Olsen has spent the last several months taking photos of “otters” — described by Mister Hollywood as hairy men with an athletic build — and he is now releasing…
When I was offered a tour of Lumina last week, I jumped at it. Although not my favorite new building in town, Lumina has done many things right where other developments have done so many wrong — especially on the Northside. It’s a big structure for the neighborhood, but at five…
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. “If we can get real for a minute, it’s a family history…
Our May 28 issue featured the ten winners of our third annual comics contest; you can see them here. And below, we’re sharing many more entries, some of which look at such serious Denver issues as growth and the plans to repair I-70, while others just turn a wry eye…
A party atmosphere will pervade tonight at Denver art openings in settings both traditional and refreshingly untraditional. Relax! It’s Friday! Here’s where to find the art in June. (RE)VISIONS: New Works by Uchay Joel Chima Art at the Cube, SugarCube Building Open on First Fridays in June, July and August,…
Chicano, the exhibit at the Museo de las Americas celebrating Chicano culture and history, closed last week with some living art: Momento Interactivo, when the community was invited to paint over the Chicano history mural that artist Carlos Fresquez had created on the gallery walls over the course of several…
Visible from I-25 — just like the lot’s former occupant Pagliacci’s was — the Lumina building at 33nd and Navajo is an eye-catcher. Unlike much of the clunky, boxy new Denver architecture that has strung up around the city over the last half-decade, the Lumina stands out with its rounded…
Denver artist Adam Milner has been out of town, earning his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but he’ll be back intermittently this summer for a couple of exhibitions, beginning with Echo Chamber, which opens Friday, June 5 at David B. Smith Gallery, and then in July as part of…
Though its obituary was written a generation ago, abstraction is back with a vengeance in contemporary art. This week, I’ll look at a set of four solos and a small group effort at Robischon Gallery, along with a super-simpatico solo at Rule Gallery. The festivities at Robischon begin with Don…
Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy started writing about The Mayday Experiment, her project that calls for building a tiny house in which she will tour the country, talking about the dangers of climate change, recently sat down in the midst of another spring rainstorm to think about the seventeen things she…
