Visual Arts

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It’s Tuesday, not exactly the day of the week when you expect a downtown parade, especially one that’s just for the hell of it, put on seemingly for no reason except to spread some fun. But that’s what you’ll get this lunch hour, when the award-winning Montbello Drumline marches down…

It was quieter in RiNo yesterday than you’d expect, considering there was a studio tour and a RiNo hunt going on for the last day of Create Denver. But it was nonetheless a perfect day to explore, and whether or not you discovered one of the 100 numbered ceramic rhinos…

Artist Andrew Novick’s Food Face was one of several shows that opened on May 12 as part of Second Saturday on East Colfax. Below are a few photos from the exhibit at Groundswell…

Create Denver Week, which began with a party last night, gets down to some heavy business with tonight’s Urban Encounters and tomorrow’s Create Denver Expo. But you never know — they might be saving the best for last: On Sunday, the whole city is invited to the RiNo Art District…

Edward Weston holds an upper berth in the pantheon of modern American photography, and it’s easy to see why. A solid Modernist who began working in the early twentieth century, Weston — who was also a great technician in the darkroom — breathed life into inanimate objects and places, turning…

One of TACtile Textile Arts Center’s most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring — as in the past — a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show — to…

Artists talking to each other about their work is nothing new, but PechaKucha Night’s aim is to get artists from all different mediums in the same room to discuss their creative processes. Founded in Tokyo in 2003, the event has a rigid format that chapters all over the world follow:…

Bongo Love isn’t afraid of the chainsaw. He’s won multiple awards at chainsaw carving competitions — including third place in Vancouver and fourth place at the World Cup in Germany. He’s also getting set to compete in Whittle the Wood in Craig this June. And he’s recently opened a tea…

There are a lot of great exhibition spaces around town, but I’m always struck by how good shows look at Ice Cube Gallery, even though it’s the humblest of venues: a co-op. In a typical arrangement, the handsome space with the big windows and high ceilings is currently divided roughly…

On the calendar of nerd holidays, May 4 is certainly below Comic Con but at least a few pegs above the pirate convention that takes place each year near the airport. Yes, “May the 4th be with you,” is a day every Star Wars fan can get behind obnoxiously –…

On Friday a new piece of public art, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun,” was installed at Tennyson Street and 41st Avenue. The piece was part of the 2007 Better Bond Project that paid for the finally-finished street improvements along Tennyson. The piece is embossed with the words “Face the sun…

If you haven’t been down to Santa Fe in a while for First Friday, you can see what you’ve been missing through these photos shot by Laura Easley for Westword. This month’s art walk included more than a few nods to Star Wars (“May the 4th be with you” and…

The EarWarp chamber concert series — which regularly spotlights some of Colorado’s best classical musicians — is still growing, but it helps to have friends like Kenji Bunch, a nationally recognized violist and modern composer, whose work is derived from contemporary folk/roots music, as well as the classical canon. Bunch…

When Kizuna: West Meets East, a site-specific installation of monumental works in bamboo, opens tomorrow at the Denver Botanic Gardens, it will only be the next step in a process that began in earnest in early April, when the artists arrived at the DBG not just to install, but in…

This week’s review of Appropriated: The Chronicled West at the Robischon Gallery by Michael Paglia examines the show which opened back on March 29 and runs through Saturday. Below are a few images from the show…

If you noticed that Sunday’s weather was particularly welcoming, you were not alone. But you probably didn’t appreciate it quite as much as the fifty people wandering around the grounds of the Zang Mansion. For the first time, the sun smiled on Denver’s celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Although…

Sophia Rose, owner of Xcentricity Gallery had so much fun body painting with artist Mythica vonGriffyn at her previous group show The Body Sacred, she decided to host a live body-painting event tomorrow, The Living Canvas, in which four artists — Brian Dunning, Bobby MaGee Lopez, Jay Bautista and Rose…

“People go to the Denver Art Museum all the time, they go to the Denver Public Library and they don’t really think of the history behind those things,” explains Ashley Rogers, assistant director of the Byers-Evans House Museum. The mission of the new exhibit Anne Evans: Colorado’s Cultural Visionary is…

Metropolitan State College of Denver is hosting a dedication ceremony this afternoon that will showcase its newest monument: a 12-foot-high, 8-foot-deep, 10-foot-wide,1.5 ton water sculpture designed by artist Rik Sargent, and dedicated to Metro’s One World, One Water Center for Urban Water and Education. With Sargent’s support, the OWOW Center…

Looking for a new Facebook profile picture? Brooke Howell can help. Her company, *LoL* Caricature Company, celebrates its grand re-opening on the 16th Street Mall this weekend and for just $12, you can get a digital caricature (drawn on an iPad), e-mailed to you to use on social media sites,…