Visual Arts

Halloween is on in Denver, and these ten photos prove it.

Looking for free and cheap things to do in Denver from October 19 to 22? Here’s your guide.

If you happen to be walking past the Colorado Convention Center this week, there’s a good chance you’ve seen art being made — humongous art following a continuous lines through a pattern of words, shapes and faces across a black-and-white urban canvas, rendered by a lone women in knee pads, brandishing a spray can.

Experience old favorites, new horizons and an opportunity to get your hands dirty this weekend at Denver galleries. Here are five hot spots.

This past January, Denver documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe struck gold. The brains behind pop-culture surveys including The People vs. George Lucas, Doc of the Dead and Paul, the Psychic Octopus premiered his cinematic deconstruction, 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, at the Sundance Film Festival.

Abstraction links the four artists in Space Gallery’s Unintended Consequences, and the results are eye-dazzling.

A darling of the NPR demographic, Mike Birbiglia’s affable everyman persona lends itself to longer bits based as much in storytelling as they are in standup.

Le Meridien and AC Marriott share a building, but the hotels have very different art collections.

October is halfway over, and winter is looming. Nonetheless, Denver’s entertainment calendar is heating up, and there’s plenty to do without shelling out a penny.

Driving south on Broadway near 19th Street, you might get an unexpected confidence boost when you see a mural that reads, “You matter. You are brave. You are enough.”

The Denver Handmade Homemade Market, aka the HaHo, started out loosey-goosey in 2011, as little more than a lemonade stand and good-faith swap for things like cottage-industry handcrafts, backyard produce and home-kitchen goods, as well as an experiment in shopping with alternative currency.

As another weekend approaches, many Denverites find themselves searching for something to do yet despairing over how to fund their fun. Fret not, broke locals, for a bevy of frights and delights await.

Oh, the variety: Metro Denver galleries are set to celebrate book artists from across the U.S., honor the Colorado art dynasty of Charles and Collin Parson, throw open houses with affordable merch for the holidays (or not) and host a DIY art session with a community-building fiber artist.

Art & Conflict, the Arvada Center’s main exhibit this fall, fills the six galleries on the center’s lower level with pieces in a range of mediums by nearly four dozen artists, most of them from Colorado.

“I See What You Mean” has inspired a nickname (the Big Blue Bear), pranks, knock-offs, and a worldwide photographic tour on #denverbluebear.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science boasts 2,000 titles. Archivist Rene O’Connell describes the collection.

The Chicano art community runs deep in Denver, and Arlette Lucero has been on the front line for decades, quietly educating children in the arts and illustrating storybooks, while also painting powerful women, using imagery rooted in mestizo culture with modernized focal points.

The work week of October 9 through October 13, 2017, is so full of fun free events in Denver, it’s downright scary.

What became of Chaesdegango, an artist who exhibited at the funky Muddy Waters coffeehouse on Platte Street?

The Denver Art Museum’s Ponti Building will get a $150 million facelift starting in November 2017.

In Denver, new murals go up faster than most people can keep track of; here are five new artworks to check out this weekend.