Love was in the air on Friday night at Zip 37 in the Navajo Street Art District, where the show LoveSick opened to the public. The exhibit, which features nine artists contemplating the meaning of being lovesick, was curated by artist Katie Hoffman, who unveiled her own piece, Heloise and…
While writing this column over the years, I have frequently thought about how my chief calling is to compose a rough first draft of the art history of Colorado done right as it races by. This kind of instant historicizing has a following in the scholarly world, and someone who…
Last night the Bar Car on Colorado Boulevard was again invaded by Amberama Martinez and her Bar Car First Sunday Art Show, which featured voodoo dolls and bracelets made from Scrabble squares, among other works for sale…
We’ve reported on the Denver Zine Library’s fundraising campaign and what a little extra cash will mean to the volunteer crew that maintains this Denver treasure, located somewhat obscurely at 27 Social Centre in Jefferson Park. And though the DZL is already more than halfway to its goal of raising…
Whether they want to wow women with their poetic prowess, find the perfect insult to highlight their intelligence or tame an unruly “shrew,” people have long been adapting Shakespeare’s stories to their own lives. And, of course, savvy marketers have been retooling the playwright’s classic plots to create their own…
“I think a lot of people are stiff toward just going to see an art show, because it can be a little bit on the boring side,” says curator Jazmin Montano. But, she insists, you won’t get bored at this one. On Saturday night, Enlightening the Dark, at Eden, will…
Monster Jam is in Denver this weekend as part of its 2012 tour, and 2011 MVP Bari Musawwir, driver of the Spider-Man truck, took some time out of his busy schedule (driving awesome trucks, doing sweet tricks, crushing cars) to talk to us about his job, and why getting in…
The Denver Art Museum’s Design Council plans to celebrate art and fashion tonight at Design After Dark: Bespoke. More than 30 art objects were created specifically for the event, and they’ll be on display and up for auction Friday night at 445 Broadway. Here’s a first look at some of…
When Mother Nature dumped snow on Denver last Friday, more than a few galleries and businesses decided to shut their doors, first Friday or no. A blizzard of confusion resulted, as many show openings and other events were postponed to later dates — many of them this weekend. Here are…
Adam Gildar, Westword MasterMind (Class of 2011), is having a hard time getting used to saying “I” rather than “we” when speaking about happenings at his South Broadway gallery: Formerly known as Illiterate and managed by three partners including Gildar, it’s now re-entering the art-scene fray as Gildar Gallery, run…
Every building has a history, and the sordid past of Niwot’s Manifest Gallery influenced the theme of its new show that opens tonight: Red Light: Tragic beauties and other objects of desire. Turns out that in the 1970s, the building that now holds the gallery was a brothel — and…
It all began with a handful of cameras. “The exhibit came about because we have a collection of cameras at the museum we were interested in learning more about,” says Jennifer Kuehner, director of the Aurora History Museum. “We realized that our collection starts in the ’20s and ’30s, and…
Gusterman’s, a silversmith shop in Larimer Square, represents an old-world ideal of master craftsmanship. The shop, more than thirty years old, sells objects and jewelry created in-house, and the silversmiths, Mary Eckels and Jamie McLandsborough, will create whatever you want, in front of you. Their gallery is full of small…
The Terminal Kings project was billed as bringing “world-class” art to Denver — a city that many of us would argue already has world-class artists. But when street artist David Choe, along with Sam Flores and Highraff, was hired to create giant murals that Denver International Airport’s Art and Culture…
No doubt about it, the biggest art news this season has been the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. Located near the Denver Art Museum, the CSM houses more than 90 percent of the abstract-expressionist pioneer’s oeuvre — a gift from Still’s estate, and that of his wife, to the…
The Ladies Fancywork Society strikes again. The group known for yarn-bombing Denver — with everything from a ball and chain on the big blue bear outside of the Colorado Convention Center to a crocheted garden outside Union Station just unveiled a new piece. And unlike the Ladies’s street bombings, this…
Calender-wise, every year starts at the beginning of January. But when it comes to pop-culture, the year “kicks off” (hey-o!) with the advertising blitz (so many football puns!) that is the Super Bowl, when advertisers collectively spend brajillions of dollars to tell us how to think and feel during the…
Where is art happening? Many of the most contemporary trends are coming from urban Asia — Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul — where technology wraps itself around ancient aesthetics with bold results. There are plenty of Korean artists riding that wave, and eight of them are featured in Keeping It Real: Korean…
When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, “real” photographers, wouldn’t have anything to do with digital photography. “There are the guys saying iPhotography isn’t art,” she says…
Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? * What causes stars to twinkle?* If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!…
At least two Santa Fe Drive venues are beating First Friday to the punch by opening shows tonight. At Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, the high-profile group show Out Figured offers a contemporary and anything-but-cliched look at figurative art. The reception is from 7 to 9…
I fly fish. I’ve only been going for about three summers, I’m self-taught, I’ve caught exactly two fish and I don’t know how to tie my own flies. For those of you who have no clue what that means, it means I’m an amateur. And that probably I suck. But…
