Ineffable is a dirty word for a writer. It means something like, “A concept you just can’t put into words.” Discussing The Deep Novelty Harvest Colony — a stereoscopic art installation that makes its debut tonight at Hinterland Gallery — with artist Andrew Elijah Edwards, you enter a philosophical wrestling…
From unconventional drawing workshops to lectures on what is real, Moxie U is redefining school. Founded by Rebecca Vaughan and Susan Stites, two former employees of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, the new organization offers a variety of classes for people who want to learn something new…
Denver Art Museum director Christoph Heinrich has a gift for understanding how to attract an audience. His secret is presenting exhibits that appeal not only to the art crowd, but also to the general population. These blockbusters — dubbed as “beacons” by Heinrich — zero in on a topic of…
Michael Paglia visits the Denver Art Museum in this week’s review, taking in the exhibit that features work from such revered artists as Rousseau, van Gogh, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso, among many other heavy hitters. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
Colorado is home to a whole community of assemblage artists, some working with nuts and bolts straight out of the dumpster and others using more rarefied detritus they’ve collected over years. But it doesn’t really matter what goes into putting this kind of art together — the final transformation is…
Doors Open Denver will be back for its tenth-anniversary edition this weekend. “We’ve got everything the same and more of it,” says event organizer Jane Potts. But one thing is different: Denver Arts & Venues has cut way back on its involvement. “The City is a sponsor again this year,…
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. Local chemistry teacher-turned-photographer Carol MacKay thinks the Denver Preschool Program is so…
The centuries-old culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, built on a bedrock of religion, yields an equally old subculture of santeros and santeras — carvers of religious figures, retablos and crosses. And each year, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gives over its walls to the best of…
“We just want to get famous enough to meet Lena Dunham,” say twin artists Taylor and Jazzmyn Barbosa. They may be joking, but it doesn’t seem like too fantastic a dream; the Barbosa sisters’ art is cut from the same vulnerable, whip-smart cloth as the star and creator HBO’s Girls…
That TV that looked so great twenty years ago is looking like an environmentally unfriendly albatross today — it’s essentially trashed, but too full of toxic materials to throw out with the trash. But on Saturday, April 5, Republic Services of Denver will provide a convenient way to recycle obsolete…
Whether he’s stuffing his subjects’ faces with food or taking pictures of them covered in their own blood, Andrew Novick takes photographs that document an always interesting and often delightfully weird time. This time around, the artist, collector, Peeps expert, Stanley Film Festival collaborator and Warlock Pincher looked to his…
Mo’Print, the Month of Printmaking, is winding down, and although the centerpiece is the Open Press show at the McNichols Building, there have been dozens of other events focused on printmaking up and down the Front Range. Among the ones that I’ve checked out are the two on view at…
DADA Art Bar occupies a prime corner of Denver. This space at 2470 Broadway used to be in the middle of nowhere — dada, indeed! — but these days the Ballpark neighborhood is popping. After months of meticulous planning by Ian Chisholm, who also owns Amerigo right around the corner,…
With hair genius and photo-shoot stylist Charlie Price behind the scenes at the upcoming 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, there’s little doubt that the three-night event at City Hall, featuring national and local fashion shows as well as a hair show, will look good all weekend long. But the addition…
Denver’s First Annual March for Absurdity convened at Market street RTD station yesterday afternoon. Whimsical accoutrements abounded at this small but dedicated gathering of weirdos, united in a defiantly pointless exercise for the sake of spectacle. But oh, what a spectacle. While the marcher’s assembled costumes were all decidedly bizarre, the real show was on the baffled faces of passersby as they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on.
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. “I went back to college at the young age of fifty and…
You may not know artist Katrin Davis by name, but you’ve definitely seen her work around Denver. The artist’s collages have been used on posters and fliers for shows for years, pieces that incorporate vintage photographs with vibrant, retro-feeling colors like turquoise and coral. Late last year, Davis moved into…
When artists Adam Milner and Jeromie Dorrance decided to open an exhibit space in what’s essentially their living room, they did so in a spirit that’s both DIY and not DIY, by putting together a well-crafted show that covers a national gamut of contemporary work by five colleagues in the…
Artist House Tour Series featuring Mark and Kristen Sink
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a bi-weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
The Stanley Film Festival just announced its opening-night film and other special, scarey events for the four-day fest, which kicks off April 24 at the historic Stanley Hotel. “The Stanley Hotel is consistently voted one of the most haunted hotels in the world, and they give over 75,000 ghost tours…
One month into its three-month stay in Denver, Monkey Town 4 — the fine-dining experience in a video cube brought here by returning hometown kid Montgomery Knott, who fine-tuned the concept for several years in Brooklyn — is generating a buzz as more and more people suspend reality for two…
