It’s Friday the thirteenth, but that’s no reason to stay home: Tonight and in the days to come, Friday Flash, Denver Comic Con and OhHeckYeah will transform downtown into a wham! pow! high-tech and pop-culture art paradise, while the otherworldly, monumental glass shapes of Chihuly will wow the crowds at…
San Francisco artist Tony Labat has built a site-specific sculpture for Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus, and from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight you can watch his sculpture turn into a platform for community interaction when it is activated with performances by DJs and drag queens. This piece is…
Jeff Wenzel is one of Colorado’s great abstract artists, with a solid body of work done over the past few decades. Though his roots are in ceramics — he was a protégé of Peter Voulkos, whose abstract-expressionist approach to clay completely revolutionized that medium — Wenzel has only rarely exhibited…
Colorado is a state that loves outdoor activities — which makes the poster show debuting this Friday, June 13 at Gallerie Rouge a natural. Owner Lisa Taylor will feature the largest collection of vintage European posters celebrating the great outdoors ever shown in the Rocky Mountains. The timing is no…
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. Suzanne Heintz is “mocking the Good Housewife of the 50s but inside…
Arts commune Rhinoceropolis turned into a wonderland of video, performance, music and art landscapes over the weekend for the two-day Fantasia festival. Fifty years ago they called this sort of thing a “happening,” and photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch all that happened. Here’s a taste; if you like…
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. DADA Art Bar, created by Iain Chisholm, chef/owner of the nearby Amerigo…
June means more sunshine, better weather and evening throngs in the streets on First Friday, especially in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, where the whole stretch becomes a living art installation — and everyone’s a part of it. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document the district-wide street party;…
This first First Friday is jammed with new art, as is the whole weekend, which also includes two June traditions: the Capitol Hill People’s Fair and the Art Students League Summer Art Market. From fine art photography to collectible-toy decorating, you’re bound to find something artful to see and do…
Michael Paglia visits Space Gallery in this week’s review, taking in its new architect-designed building on Santa Fe Drive. The opening show fittingly entitled Space Gallery Grand Opening showcases work from every artist associated with Space, including painters and printmakers. Continue reading for photos from Space. See also: Tobias Fike’s…
Though Denver’s art world can trace its roots back to the late nineteenth century — the Denver Art Museum, for example, was founded in 1893 — it has only reached critical mass since the dawn of the 21st. The most obvious evidence of this was the construction of the DAM’s…
For our second annual Comics issue and contest, we asked cartoonists (and would-be cartoonists) to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. The winning entries tackled a variety of subjects, from overcrowding to the nightlife of Colorado’s casino mountain towns. Here, we present the cream of the crop. Having trouble…
Though Molly Brown’s fame lies with the sinking of the Titanic, the Molly Brown House Museum’s summer exhibit, “A Call to Arms,” aims to show her place in history beyond the boat by focusing on her involvement in World War I. Some of the artifacts include several original Red Cross…
Jeff Raphael was once the drummer of early San Francisco punk band The Nuns. Along with The Avengers, that band opened the infamous last show that the Sex Pistols in its first run played at Winterland in February 1978. Since then, Raphael has gone on to play with several of…
Before gamers had the option to kill each other anonymously via the Internet, they had to gather in real-world arcades to do it. In that arena, friendships were made, rivalries were born and a good time was had by all. Those days are long gone, but this summer OhHeckYeah is…
Founded in 2006 by former fabric retailer Dianne Denholm, the TACtile Textile Arts Center was envisioned as a nonprofit center where regional practitioners in all disciplines of the fiber arts could meet, teach classes and display their work. Conceived as a local version of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, which…
Larimer Square was jammed over the weekend with spectators watching an asphalt canvas come alive with color during the annual Denver Chalk Art Festival, a favorite summer kickoff for fest-goers of all ages. Scott Lentz was there to capture the crowd, the artists and the masterpieces-in-progress. See also: Hoodlab will…
Hoodlab will be leaving its home in RiNo next month. The owners of the HoodLamb clothing line, which celebrates hemp and got its start in Amsterdam, moved their business into the building at 33rd and Larimer streets almost two years ago, and quickly turned it into a gathering place known…
Scott Takeda’s first time in front of a camera was as a TV journalist. Today he’s often in front of a camera as an actor, with roles in Hollywood films like the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club as well as Halt & Catch Fire , a new series that premiered June…
Denver is a book town and a poetry town and a town where stories are told in darkened rooms. But it’s easy to lose track of literary events in the bustle of everything else going on in Denver, from breweries to bike rides. We’re here to help. Keep reading for…
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. Mickey La Fave is an arson and fraud investigator who’s been in…
There are openings all over town this weekend, and the art will transport you right out of this world. Here are just three of the artistic displays worth seeing this weekend… See also: Denver Chalk Art Festival…
