Since stepping in to take over the citywide Doors Open Denver in 2014, the Denver Architectural Foundation has taken great strides toward growing the event and making it more accessible to a diverse audience. This year, the programming will include architecture-inspired urban arts and cultural events bankrolled by the Bonfils-Stanton…
Black Cube artist fellow Derrick Velasquez is standing in the middle of his workspace at TANK Studios, a piece of foam trim in one hand, a picture of Patrick Swayze in the other, and talking about why a giant medallion-shaped dart board measuring 96 by 78 inches is hanging above…
It is a testament to the adaptability of the individual that my brain didn’t explode last week when circumstances put my aesthetic judgment in a kind of netherworld. That’s because at the same time that I was putting together my guide to the worst of the new architecture in Denver,…
Since the giant shipping container first came onto the Denver art scene, Black Cube has never been like other museums, especially when it comes to building lasting relationships with its artist fellows. On Saturday, April 23, as part of Doors Open Denver, Black Cube will launch the first of two…
In its sixth year, the Denver County Fair is still full of surprises — and this week’s 2016 poster reveal offers another one. The latest masterpiece from fair poster artist and Denver painter Mark Penner Howell is all about politics, with an emphasis on the fair’s newest addition: the Political…
Denver is changing rapidly. Some of the changes have been good: the burgeoning art scene, the museum-building boom, the explosion in restaurants and the whole Napa-of-craft-beer thing, not to mention legalized marijuana. But there have also been some bad changes: the terrible traffic, the litter and pet waste everywhere, the…
#84: Curtis Tucker Trained in graphic design, Curtis Tucker is one of those staunch DIY guys. He’s worked as a middleman in the underground zine industry as a traveling vendor; through his online venture Far Out Zines, he’s distributed micro-press and handmade publications, including his own. As a ground-floor gallery…
Husband-and-wife duo Jonathan Fessler and Delanie Holton-Fessler are in the business of rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty, and now they have more than enough elbow room to do their work. The founders of The Craftsman and Apprentice, named Best Place to Learn Your Craft in the Best of…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Jan Friedman is showing her chalk compositions at La Cour Bistro & Art…
We admit it: The competition wasn’t steep in the Best of Denver 2016 category for Best Civic Olympics. But Stompin’ Ground Games, the latest venture by Denver’s Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a civic health club started by Evan Weissman, was definitely a winner. Starting last September, Warm Cookies of…
The spring offerings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver cover a lot of ground, with four impressive solos on view right now. Occupying the spaces on the main floor is Arnie Svenson: The Neighbors, a body of color photos depicting the New York artist’s neighbors as seen through their…
The seventh annual Performance Art Week, spearheaded by Rian Kerrane, a sculptor who also teaches at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado-Denver, kicks off tonight at Emmanuel Gallery. For this year’s PAW, Kerrane is pulling both artists and the public into situations characterized by the immediacy…
When Philip Spangler and I were trying to figure out how to fit a set of stairs onto a 20’ trailer, our original design required some accommodations. The shorter a set of stairs are, the higher the rise – and the harder to climb. With my bad knees thanks to…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Multimedia artist Aimee Fink’s Year of the Buffalo – on display at Kaladi…
Rising stars and established mentors in the regional arts world will be on display this weekend at local galleries, and if you’re into tattoos — and who isn’t? — there’s a show for that, too. Theresa Anderson and Dayana Ruiz: Plus Two Dateline Gallery and Phillip J. Steele Gallery April…
Select Prints From the Collection, at Michael Warren Contemporary, is part of the Mo’Print mania that’s raging in town this month. The show includes prints by big-name contemporary artists that were collected by the late William van Straaten, who was an art dealer for more than forty years. Van Straaten’s…
Escapism, now up at Leon Gallery, features recent pieces by Tim Schwartz, an up-and-coming L.A.-based artist. At first glance, the works in the show look like neo-minimalist abstracts, but upon closer examination, it’s apparent that they are actually depictions of nature. The dark rectangles that make up the extremely spare constructivist…
The performing arts get eclectic this weekend around Denver with a b-girl jam, a one-man tour de force that’s also a birthday celebration, and a smorgasbord of Asian-American arts. All are don’t-miss events; here are the details: Queenz of Hip-Hop Seventh Annual Jam Performance by Cypher Adikts The B-Boy Factory,…
Since the late ’80s, husband-and-wife artists Tracy Felix and Sushe Felix, who share Land Rhythms at William Havu Gallery, have followed different, if thoroughly intertwined, aesthetic paths. For many years, they’ve both been interested in conveying the Western landscape in non-traditional ways, though their individual works are clearly distinct. Tracy’s…
The Lantern Fest will take off from Denver (or the Colorado National Speedway in Dacano, which is close enough) for the first time on April 23. The event is so hot it sold out fast, but people still have burning questions about how it will all go down. Here are answers to ten…
Reading Color: Art Forum 1965-2015, a must-see exhibit at Gildar Gallery, features recent conceptual abstractions by emerging Denver artist Andrew Jensotter. Gallery director Adam Gildar first saw his work at Vertigo; this is Jensotter’s second solo at Gildar. On one level, the large square panels that make up the show function as classic…
One of the great things about living in a place like Denver for much of your life is that you wind up with friendships that span twenty or thirty years by the time you’re my age. And sometimes, those friends’ lives are parallel and you find yourself in similar places…
