Nearly ten years ago, philanthropist Laura Merage created RedLine with the goal of providing studios for artists and exhibition spaces for art. Considering the crunch on artist spaces in Denver right now — the Rhinoceropolis eviction being just the tip of the iceberg — Merage was prescient. At the time…
Most funders do the dirty work of deciding which earnest nonprofits secure funding and which don’t, behind closed doors. Not the Denver Foundation’s Arts Affinity Group, which hosted Art Tank — based on the cut-throat reality TV show Shark Tank — in which six community-minded art groups attempted to wow a panel of formidable arts administrators, Tuesday, February 7.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is a tense, visceral drama of wounded masculinity — and therein lies part of its problem. Farhadi, whose About Elly and A Separation are two of the greatest movies of the past decade, can find tension in the most mundane of exchanges, and he…
Cecily Cullen consistently brings beauty to the walls of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, which she directs, and routinely asks the hard questions lurking behind all that gob-smacking gorgeousness. That’s especially true of theCVA’s latest exhibition, Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, a photo-based show that…
Contemporary American horror’s obsession with morality and psychotherapy can really be a downer. In 2002, Gore Verbinski expertly remade the J-horror hit Ringu with a layered story about a single mother (Naomi Watts) who watches a cursed videotape. To stop the curse, she travels through the warped psyche of the…
First, the good news: The dog doesn’t die in John Wick: Chapter 2. This will come as a relief to some of us who adored the original, an action masterpiece about a retired hitman taking unholy revenge on the Russian scumbags who killed his pup and stole his car. The…
Given that it’s a sequel/spinoff built around a mostly throwaway gag in The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie is funnier than you might think it has any right to be. But those of us who were expecting something more can’t help but feel a twinge of disappointment. The LEGO…
Suburban teendom often means killing time, auditioning selves, inhabiting the you that you can pull off for now but also maybe worrying about the you you’ll aim for next. Few films honor that uncertain aimlessness like Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, an anthro-fiction offering exquisitely framed long-take looks at Sarasota teenagers…
If you’re trying to show your significant other how spontaneous you are, nothing says it quite like embracing one of these ten events coming up over the next few days. And if you’re single, some of these would be great places to meet your future freaky partner.
Denver native Neal Cassady Inspired Jack Kerouac to write On the Road. But his legacy includes more than the Beat Generation: He also fathered a secret son, Robert Hyatt.
Catch big names like Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, as well as the work of big names, like Jean-Michael Basquiat, at events in Denver this week.
The Christians has a interesting story, but doesn’t go deep — and the view is caught between heaven and hell.
MCA Denver’s Adam Lerner doesn’t simply direct the museum he’s led since 2009 — rather, he animates it, drawing artists and non-artists alike into the MCA with party-like openings and offbeat programs like Mixed Taste, a series pairing lectures on unrelated topics.
According to America’s preeminent groundhog meteorologists, we can expect six more weeks of winter and at least four more years of rapidly encroaching fascism. Needless to say, the cathartic release of comedy is in high demand, perhaps now more than ever. Fortunately, February’s post-Super Bowl weeks are stuffed with a…
#35: Brian Comber Brooklyn native Brian Comber arrived in Denver in the 80s, where his budding skill as a printmaker in art school led him to Mark Lunning’s Open Press Ltd. studio facility. There, Comber continued to perfect his printmaking technique under Lunning’s wing, while also continuing to draw and…
This week is going to keep us entertained, but more importantly, it’s going to be enlightening. We’re talking to artists, activists and badass women, and learning how culture spreads.
In late January, artist Christo abandoned plans for “Over the River,” the art project he’d been working on for decades, which would have put a 42-mile long canopy over the river. Attorney Lori Potter worked on the plans, and in this op-ed describes the benefits the project had already brought to Colorado.
We made it to February! Hooray us! Hey, it wasn’t a guarantee, and I’m so proud of us all. As a reward, make sure to watch every single one of these TV shows this month, and I don’t want to hear any excuses! You deserve it. The Quad (BET), Feb…
Our readers went wild when they heard Rob Reiner’s cult classic, The Princess Bride is coming to the Paramount Theatre on April 21, accompanied by the film’s star, Cary Elwes. The actor will be presenting the movie, which has defined his career. Tickets go on sale today, at 10 a.m. through…
Looking for things to do this weekend? Here’s your guide.
These are urgent political times, says Katie Maltais, managing director of the Curious Theatre, whose company is unwilling to wait until its next season to start blasting Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies.
In the world of cinema, February finds us climbing excitedly out of the wasteland that is January and into this month’s embrace of new films that are sure to hook audiences. Not to mention, there are plenty of special screenings of Academy Award-nominated films in anticipation of the ceremony this…
