So many young artists — those in their twenties and thirties — come out of colleges, universities and art schools every year that they often have trouble getting noticed. Nowhere is this situation more pronounced than in China, where seemingly a million students have, upon graduation, become internationally famous. Even…

The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts (1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org) is a collecting institution with three areas of focus: the work of Colorado’s premier modernist, Vance Kirkland, the work of other Colorado artists, and international design. It’s this third category that’s on view now in The Furniture…

Walking along Santa Fe Drive the other day, I gazed at the van Straaten Gallery and thought about a shift that has taken place recently on the street. As usual, the gallery was closed, though a few spotlights were on so you could tell there was art on display inside…

Randy Roberts, the owner of Z Art Department (1136 North Speer Boulevard, 303-298-8432), has done a good job over the last few years of picking up pieces of old modern art created by earlier generations of Colorado artists. In the past twenty years, there’s been increasing scholarly and collector interest…

For nearly twenty years, conceptual artist Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, made plans for the “Over the River” project, a series of sun shades that hopefully will be installed in a few years over intermittent stretches of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado as a temporary work of art…

Gregory Hayes: Re-Seeing New Works is an elegant and very grown-up solo on display at Rule Gallery (227 Broadway, 303-777-9537, www.rulegallery.com). It showcases the recent efforts by Hayes, an emerging artist who lives in New York, where he’s in grad school. But he also has a Colorado connection, having done…

Woman attacks artwork: It was one of those stories guaranteed to get Colorado into the national spotlight. On October 6, Kathleen Folden, a fundamentalist Christian from Montana, acting on her religious zeal, attacked a print of “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (pictured below),” by Enrique Chagoya, which was on…

Fall is a busy time of year in the art world, and it’s hard to believe how quickly the weather and the local exhibits are changing. In fact, this season’s fall openers are rapidly heading to their appointed closings. With that in mind, I’m catching up and recommending two shows…

For nearly thirty years, Eldon “E.C.” Cunningham taught printmaking as the program coordinator at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He was also the director of the school’s Vicious Dog Press. On October 1, Cunningham died suddenly, rocking the Auraria campus and causing the print program at Metro to shut down…

Over the last decade or so, Colorado has seen an incredible museum-building boom that is completely unprecedented in the state’s history. New structures include the Kirkland Museum, the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum, and MCA Denver. In addition, a substantial yet subdued addition was made to the iconic…