SupaStore, British artist Sarah Staton’s response to the overarching rise of online commerce in the new millennium and how retail is losing its human touch, has come to Denver, in the guise of SupaStore Human—We are the Product, a singular iteration of Staton’s artist road show.
Take in some art before the year is over at these shows and more.
Denver artist Tom Ward’s been busy painting a new mural at Tommy’s Thai on Colfax Avenue.
The current offering at William Havu Gallery, Transmutations, brings together three abstractionists — a sculptor, a painter, and an artist who uses smoke on paper to create drawings — for solo shows that masquerade as a group effort. Occupying the floor space are sculptures by well-known Denver artist Michael Clapper,…
For all the transplants — as well as longtime Denverites who’ve forgotten their civics lessons or skipped them altogether — History Colorado is now providing a primer with Zoom In: The Centennial State in 100 Objects, an exhibit that draws from its collection to offer a true object lesson in Colorado history.
Being inclusive of non-Christians at Christmas time is a perilous task, but Cleo Parker Robinson Dance pulls it off in Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum.
Rick Griffith, the design maven and letterpress wizard of MATTER Studio, has a whole different way of approaching commerce as a community-based social action. In his world, every person — rich or poor, black or white, unschooled or highly overeducated — is a cog in the wheel of fair and equal commerce, and no one gets left out.
Looking for free and cheap things to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Think you can get through the next few weeks without hitting the mall or setting foot inside a big box store? It isn’t necessary to empty your pockets soullessly on plastic junk and electronics just to make that space under the ChristmaHanuKwanzaa bush look as good as the one over at the Joneses. You’ve got this, and we’re here to help.
Pirate Contemporary Art, the city’s flagship artists’ cooperative, found a new home outside of Denver, in Lakewood. These are the wages of gentrification: The city’s alternative art infrastructure is being off-shored to the inner suburbs.
Group and small-works shows abound at co-ops, studio enclaves and commercial galleries, too, making December an opportunity to scope out the breadth of Denver’s many-faceted art scene. Have a holiday-season lark and get to know every kind of artist better at these ten events.
It’s not too early to start thinking about the biggest arty party of 2018. Artopia, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will be livelier than ever next year, on a new night, in a new location and with a new emphasis on art created before your eyes.
With all the hurly burly of construction in the Golden Triangle (including the dismantling of “Lao Tzu” outside the Denver Art Museum), it’s a relief to see the new shows at the nearby Goodwin Fine Art and the new display by Linda Herritt at Rule on Santa Fe Drive.
A year and a few days after the Ghost Ship fire burned down an Oakland warehouse, killing 36 people at a party, Denver Arts & Venues announced it would be offering up $300,000 in need-based grants that groups that are a part of the Safe Occupancy Program for building modifications and safety compliance can apply for.
Usama Alshaibi aims for Boy From War to be a decidedly American autobiography about his experience growing up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, at the start of the Iraq-Iran War, fleeing with his family and coming-of-age in Iowa City’s punk rock scene.
It’s the dawn of a new week in Denver, which means that there are seven days of entertainment awaiting us…and many of the events are free. Here are the five best.
Denver’s Union Station will be turned into a human sculpture court for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, as part of On Display Global.
While late autumn has been disconcertingly light on snowfall, flurries of delight await locals eager to see movies, concerts, and theatrical performances happening all over the city this weekend.
When First Friday and December collide, expect to get some holiday shopping done for your artiest gift list as you graze the galleries. But you’ll still find more than small, affordable works in the mix, including big experiments and deep musings.
Artists will bring light to the once dark and uninviting 38th Street underpass, starting November 30, when the RiNo Arts District will celebrate the completion of a two year transformation of the space.
Spark Gallery, Denver’s oldest artists’ co-op, is hosting three solos that work well together.
Mayor Michael Hancock honored the recipients of the 2017 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts and Culture at a ceremony at the McNichols Building on Monday, November 27.
