Arts & Culture

A second wave of I-70 viaduct street art has brought out nearly thirty local artists. The community can view the new installations on Saturday, August 26 from 2-6 p.m.

Say goodbye to summer vacations and hello to a new season of arts and culture: Here are six ways to get a head start on fall exhibits.

The artists at current shows at the William Havu Gallery and Tina Goodwin Fine Art are all taking their own routes to the same goal: using old-fashioned representational imagery in some kind of contemporary way.

After diving into how ticketing works at Red Rocks, we wondered how other Denver Arts & Venues properties, like the Buell Theatre, handle ticketing for high-demand theatrical productions, such as Frozen and Hamilton.

Whether you were celebrating body art, protesting white supremacy, dancing to music at Red Rocks or tubing down the Platte River, you were sure to miss some amazing events this past weekend. Thanks to our photographers, you can relish the memories and see the events you weren’t able to attend. Denver, here’s what you looked like.

Sure, Denver’s a hub for music fans, art lovers, and craft brew and cannabis connoisseurs, not to mention all stripes of outdoorsy types. But for people who prefer to huddle inside and create arts and crafts, the Mile High City has you covered too. Here are six of our favorite metro area resources for craft lovers.

Art lovers, cinephiles and comedy nerds in particular have plenty to look forward to this week: Nearly every day holds a free gallery opening, movie screening or performance for the viewing pleasure of this city’s thrifty and adventurous residents. Here are five of the best free events in town.

Earlier this week, Westword reported, “The River North Arts District is booting out actual artists: That’s the claim of a group of arts activists/residents who ramped up the fight against gentrification in the River North neighborhood by redecorating three iron slabs touting the RiNo Art District with flowers, crosses and other objects of mourning on Monday, August 14, 2017.”

“The Moth is a battle of narcissists,” says Morley McBride, standing at the front of a stage at Swallow Hill Music as it fills with a crowd eager to hear the stories of strangers. It’s the third Friday of July, which means McBride, a blonde in a black jumpsuit, is seeing to the final steps of preparing the monthly Story Slam event, a live offshoot of the ever-popular story-sharing podcast where Denverites tell and receive scores on their narratives of personal experiences. If you’ve ever wondered what the in-person get-togethers are like but haven’t yet managed to snag the in-demand tickets, here’s your answer:

David and Carrie Wintersteen dove into the stuff of parental nightmares when commissioning the play they’ll perform this weekend at Boulder’s Fringe Festival. Carrie Wintersteen describes Our Boy, the two person play the Fargo, North Dakota-based couple will present, as about “parents who just learning that their son is accused of sexual assault.”