William E. (Bill) Potts, a trailblazing Denver sculptor who used salvaged wood, house paint and sometimes crude tools to create vivid figures and tableaux prized by celebrities and schoolkids alike, died last week at the age of eighty.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style in off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
When news broke Tuesday that Carrie Fisher, known best as the actress who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, had died after suffering a major heart attack, staff at the Denver Art Museum laid out two notebooks where patrons visiting “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibit could jot down their tributes to the actress.
Denver Arts and Venues has announced four opportunities to make public art in Denver.
Denver is a do-it-yourself town. The people who headed west after the gold discoveries in 1858 and 1859 were definitely DIY, determined to make new lives for themselves in the great unknown. When their claims didn’t pan out, some shifted course and became merchants, stocking supplies and offering services for…
Artists scramble for funding on Art Tank, a show produced by the Colorado Film School, on Rocky Mountain PBS.
Goodwin Fine Art is hosting an elegant solo show in its main gallery, and a tidy little exhibit in the back, with both on view right up to New Year’s Eve.
Over the years and in its various incarnations, Rule Gallery has mined the rich veins of Colorado art history to showcase the work of established talents while also striking gold by introducing new players to the scene. With its current show, Form & Void, the gallery does both. The exhibit…
Modernist artist Alexander Calder’s abstract sculptures will be showcased at the Denver Botanic Gardens York Street location starting in spring 2017.
Clark Richert has been at his craft for over fifty years. Long acknowledged as a master of Colorado’s contemporary-art scene, in recent years he’s reached a wider audience through shows like West of Center at MCA Denver and Hippie Modernism, jointly organized by the Walker Art Center and the University…
Platteforum’s resident artist led six high school students in getting to know Denver’s homeless population to inspire the multimedia exhibit “Dear Mayor Hancock, What Are You Going to Do?” opening December 17.
The idea first popped up years ago, when Evan Weissman of Warm Cookies of the Revolution was still a member of the close-knit and creative Buntport Theater crew. “We used to talk about building a giant Rube Goldberg machine that would stretch from Boulder to Denver or maybe just from…
Get ready for the arty party of the new year: Tickets for Artopia 2017 go on sale at 10 a.m. today. On Saturday, February 25, our annual celebration of art, culture and fashion will once again fill City Hall, at 1144 Broadway. And this round, we’re bringing style in off…
Something’s brewing in RiNo. The River North Art District has seen a lot of change lately, including a massive new mural just created in the corridor between Walnut Street and Brighton Boulevard on 38th Avenue. Earlier this year, Blue Moon Brewing Company opened its taproom at 3750 Chestnut Place, an industrial,…
At the Collector’s Choice fundraiser on Thursday, December 8, at the Denver Art Museum, director Christoph Heinrich formally announced that the museum would undertake a more than $150 million rehab of the North Building. He also revealed that husband-and-wife benefactors J. Landis Martin and Sharon Martin had pledged to contribute…
Through the holidays, Walker Fine Art is presenting Juxtaposed, a group show with an unusual mix of styles: It includes a fairly cogent collection of abstract work by five artists — and works by a single contemporary realist set improbably in their midst. The abstract pieces begin in the double-height…
On December 10 and 17, walk into another dimension via an immersive art exhibit that seduces the five senses.
Get tattooed for a good cause at All Sacred Tattoo shop this Saturday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. as they host their final Tattoos For Good event of the year where 100% of proceeds will go to three amazing, local charities..
One of the things that the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center consistently does well is dedicate exhibits to significant regional artists. The current case in point is All I Ever Wanted: James Surls and Charmaine Locke, a show featuring work by artists who live in the Roaring Fork Valley, near…
In preparation for the 1977 NASA launch of the Voyager 1 space probe, Carl Sagan’s scientific team member and fiancee Anne Druyan was tasked with imprinting symbols essential to humanity on a disc of gold that might, if found by some civilization light-years away, help explain who we are here…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like December, which is why this week’s 21 best events list is packed with all things cold weather, including a hockey game, the Holiday Flea and a screening of It’s a Wonderful Life. Keep reading for more things to do this week and beyond!…
Art doesn’t simply reflect reality – it shapes reality. Here are the 25 best murals of 2016 in Colorado.
