For the next week at least, Chris Charpentier is one of the best joke writers in town. After that, he’ll move to Los Angeles where he’ll be one of the best joke writers in that town. A founding member of the Fine Gentleman’s Club, Charpentier is widely known to delight…
Editor’s note: Indie Design Blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she’ll be sharing some of her favorite homes, by taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Prepare to have Artist, Marie M. Vlasic and Musician/Composer,…
In 1965, hot on the heels of the emergence of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and the new wave of pop art, a lively group of artists assembled in Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center like a brushed and stained version of the Avengers. They called themselves the Hairy Who and…
More than a decade ago, while he was at Houston’s FotoFest, photographer Mark Sink decided that he wanted to do something similar here. So in 2004, he created Denver’s Month of Photography, a series of exhibits and events that runs from mid-March through April. Initially an annual, it’s now a…
Denver street art never sleeps, but it does hibernate during the winter. Now that spring is here, you can see new murals all over town — just in time for the International Art Materials Association convention at the Colorado Convention Center that opens today and runs through April 17. Some…
Over the weekend, Love Gallery hosted the three-venue Birdseed Collective’s annual 100 X 100 benefit show, featuring a hundred artists and traditionally held on the hundredth day of the year. Along with walls splashed with art, the event showcased Denver celebrity Andrew Novick’s Fukuoka-style pop-up ramen shop and a hair…
After a long winter’s wait, it’s finally warm enough to put on the roof! The adhesives used to hold down the EPDM roofing require a period of 48 hours above 50 degrees, and we’re getting there, slowly. Of course, the winter was tough on the exposed plywood, and due to…
Chow down in the name of art: On Wednesday, April 15, ArtPlant will host a French fry-eating contest at the Articulated Wall — or is that the French Fry Stack? — in the Denver Design District off South Broadway. The contest will be documented in video and photos as material…
At the State of Downtown 2015 breakfast briefing last month, the Denver Partnership rolled out a roster of impressive statistics, including the fact that Denver has seen the country’s “largest increase in residents with college degrees,” according to 2014 U.S. Census stats and has the “best commercial real estate market…
April is shaping up to be a month of big ideas in three dimensions in local gallery spaces, with shows that focus on scale, mixed media and quirky manifestations of artfulness. Here’s a selection of galleries where you jump on the big-art bandwagon or just have a good time this…
The William Havu Gallery has staked out a wide swath of aesthetic territory for its exhibitions. For example, while it highlighted neo-traditional landscapes last month, this month’s focus is on a set of solos featuring neo-modern abstracts. The array begins with Monroe Hodder: Smoke and Mirrors, which comprises very recent…
The International Film Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder is screening two films this weekend: Another Corleone: Another Sicily and The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, one a documentary and the other a comedic take on the world so vividly captured by Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and Francis…
Walker Fine Art has long included photography in its repertoire, so it makes sense that director Bobbi Walker would come up with something as strong as Unconscious Metaphors for her gallery’s Month of Photography entry. Two bodies of work by Anne Arden McDonald open the show. First are self-portraits, in…
Regrets, I’ve had a few. This week I did an interview with photographer Amanda Tipton, who is working on a project about, as she calls them, “strong choices.” She and Sam Pike of The Forum Stories came to my studio, and we talked about the circumstances around my choice to…
When Denver’s Fantastic Hosts throw a white party, you know it won’t just be about the color. Though white costumes did figure into the party mix on Saturday night at the Exdo Event Center, the Hosts’ Light Fantastic bash borrowed some pages from the Burning Man vibe, with light installations,…
Mondays can be bad, but not as bad as the one in Cooties, the “horror comedy” that will kick off this year’s Stanley Film Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 3 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. The fest announced today that actor Elijah Wood’s horror imprint, SpectreVision,…
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. Jon Lambert was born in Colorado Springs, but he first got serious…
Brittany Gould, a Berlin-based artist, is perhaps best known in Denver as a musician with the art-punk band Mannequin Makeout who created the solo, ambient project Married in Berdichev. As a visual artist, Gould has cultivated an aesthetic that combines abstraction with a tactile quality characterized by the use of geometric…
The return of winter be damned, First Friday is going down tonight all over metro Denver. Grab your coat: Here are a few hot new shows and events to ward off the chill. Margaret Neumann: Inscapes Macky Gallery, CU-Boulder campus April 3 through June 7 Opening reception and expert talk:…
Collage jumps the boundaries of photography, sometimes using ready-made images or layered photographic techniques in unexpected juxtapositions to make a statement. Its rightful place as part of Month of Photography 2015 will be made clear this weekend, when Denver Collage Club comes late to the party at Robert Anderson Gallery. In…
One of the many trends in contemporary photography is the creation of miniature scenes that are captured in photos that make the minuscule subjects look full-sized. This is partly what’s behind Ground Waters: Photography by Liz Hickok, a large and impressive show at Michael Warren Contemporary that is part of…
Our Ouija board startling rattling good and early this morning with another transmission from beyond. Following an earlier first wave release earlier, the spirits were revealing much of the program for the 2015 Stanley Film Festival, taking place April 30 through May 3 at the historic and haunted Stanley Hotel in…
