At the last Collective Misnomer screening, in December at the Dikeou Pop-Up, programmer Adán De La Garza blasted the City of Denver for closing two DIY venues in the wake of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, just before turning off the lights and presenting a program of deliciously plodding landscape movies — some wry, others philosophical — that challenge the way we see the world.
Hard to believe there will be no more weekends in January, but it’s true. So let’s make it memorable. There are almost too many laughs to be had, social movements to join, and of course, beer to drink. Check out the Westword calendar for even more fun.
Mary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday at 80, was a reluctant feminist. She wouldn’t even call herself one at all. In 1970, when Moore embodied the character of flighty, 30-year-old single TV news producer Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, there was no other such woman portrayed on…
Making water safety videos in the context of Ophelia, the potential wife of Hamlet who drowns herself toward the end of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, isn’t the most intuitive response to the play. That is, unless you’re Niki Tulk, the United States born, Australian raised performance artist, who will be presenting her immersive installation, Ophelia | Leaves, in Boulder, on Friday, January 27.
Bobbi Walker has created a group show, Amalgamated Contemplation, as her first exhibit of 2017. Two artists emerge as the starts of the show; sculptor Brandon Reese and the late Roland Bernier, a painter and mixed media artist.
Art of Storytelling brings cross-cultural voices to the mic at Prodigy Coffeehouse in Denver.
Sean Faling’s crosses lines between fine art and experimental music by recyling outdated electronics into noise-making art installations.
After 25 years, Christo has abandoned the “Over the River” project on the Arkansas. Is Trump to blame? That’s what the New York Times thinks.
Robischon Gallery is currently showing eight solos, some small and most fairly large. But these solos resolve into a single coherent visual experience because all of the artists are dealing with the same issue: how to do something different with contemporary abstraction, arguably the style of our time. And they all succeed in their own distinctive ways.
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death with the voiceover narrative technique of Look Who’s Talking. The main character, Dog, dies in multiple wrenching scenes and is subsequently reborn;…
Gold’s value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it. The noble metal has driven humans to perpetrate ignoble acts on their quests to unearth it since at least 5000 B.C.E., when slaves divined for golden veins to lavish their Pharaohs with jewelry. The Incas even…
“Art is a lie that tells a truth,” Pablo Picasso once said. The aphorism animates Pablo Larraín’s canny and vigorous Neruda, a sidelong biopic of the preeminent Chilean poet and politician, featuring a brilliant Luis Gnecco in the title role, that’s equal parts fact and fiction. (Conversely, Larraín’s film also…
The beginning of Brilliant Traces, now playing at Vintage Theatre, is wonderfully evocative: A young woman in a wedding dress stumbles into a remote and dilapidated Alaska cabin. Her car broke down some time ago, and she’s been wandering in a blinding whiteout — the kind that disorients and kills…
The maligned Gunnison sage grouse is about to become a star. The bird, which has long been ridiculed for its bizarre appearance and its quirky mating rituals, has also been at the center of a fight between conservationists and oil-and-gas companies over the future of Bureau of Land Management-owned land in western Colorado. While it may be headed toward extinction, the puffy creature is making its debut as the subject of a movie, Last Chance to Dance.
Kathy Griffin is a writer, actor, television mainstay and astoundingly prolific standup comedian who has achieved a record-breaking number of career milestones since getting her start in the venerated Groundlings improv troupe during their mid-80s salad days.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to Student “Failures”
Quick, name an Archie Andrews personality trait. Yes, he’s red-headed and red-blooded, a horndog naïf with hashtag sideburns who is forever battled over by beauties he can’t be bothered to get anywhere with. But beyond that — who is he? Sometimes he’s in a sugar-sweet pop combo. Sometimes he tools…
Tickets go on sale for the annual Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, DINK, today, January 24, at noon. Founded by the team that started Denver ComicCon, the event spotlights the most innovate artists working on the fringes of the graphic novel and comic-book universe.
As a nomadic contemporary art museum, Black Cube and its executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell have already proven that they’re here to “turn the idea of a museum on its head,” pushing limits in the contemporary art world. With the announcement of the 2017 artist fellows, Stell is…
Skiing isn’t a cheap sport, but you can find deals. Here are ten on Colorado slopes this season.
This week: A new documentary explores the dangers of the beauty industry, gentrification is a hot topic at Regis University, and musicians tackle inclusivity.
Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will just premiered at the Denver Center, and the play is a delight.
