Denver Comic Con has brought in some big names in its short history, but for year five it’s going straight for the top shelf. Comics legend Stan Lee was already on the roster for the June event when the announcement came late last week of the addition of a member…
There are so many reasons to love artist Gary Sweeney, who definitely made his mark on Denver. His “America, Why I Love Her,” an homage to family road tips complete with old postcards and Sweeney photos, continues to amuse travelers at Denver International Airport, two decades after it was installed at…
Are you “Crushing on Colorado”? Downtown Colorado Inc., a nonprofit membership organization committed to building communities in this state, has launched a campaign for Valentine’s Day that celebrates a love of Colorado people, places and things. DCI wants you to share your love for Colorado by snapping a photo “crushing”…
On February 9 hundreds of thousands of Denver fans were lucky enough to see Superbowl MVP Von Miller ride a fire engine much like you might ride a Bronco: legs splayed, a velvety cowboy hat firmly placed on your head. Well, maybe the fuzzy hat wasn’t typical rugged attire. Indeed,…
The wonderful solo Joel Swanson: Polysemic is approaching its final weeks at the Museum of Outdoor Arts. Despite the institution’s name, most of the works are actually indoors, but one, a billboard titled “Respectfully,” is sited outside. The billboard is a digital print on which the word “Respectfully” has been…
With election season in full swing, words like “immigration” and “detention” are repeatedly thrown around by candidates and the media; meanwhile, the people at the center of the immigration crisis are hardly ever given a voice. Detention Nation, a new exhibit opening at 6 p.m. Thursday, February 11, at the…
In its first year of operation Black Cube, a nomadic contemporary art museum, brought Denver a giant inflatable monument, live cinema and a sculpture that questioned the city’s aesthetics. As Black Cube gears up for year two with a new class of artist fellows, Cortney Stell, Black Cube executive director and chief…
Artists are natural hoarders. To us, everything has potential, everything has possibility. Add to that the word “free” and resistance is futile, I’m afraid. Though I’ve tried to be incredibly conscious about what I take into my life while building the tiny house, the general rule of stuff is that…
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. Mosaic artist Kasia Polkowska and her partner, Kyle Cunniff, took their show on…
Helikon Gallery just opened a show of street art, called Opiates for the Masses and curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, who own the Sally Centigrade gallery in Larimer Square. Everyone agrees the display is amazing, but one reader objected to the language we used to describe it in our story. Says…
Denver artist and longtime Westword contributor Patti Cramer passed away a half-dozen years ago, but she lives on through her art, which remains popular. We have a big cache of her drawings, but paintings are harder to come by….and collectors want them. Do you have a Patti Cramer painting you’re…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 — and presale ticket sales start this morning! Join us on Saturday, February 20, for Artopia 2016 — a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through…
Project Colfax is a stunning new urban-art installation created at the former car wash at Williams Street and East Colfax Avenue, a project involving the paint, sweat and tears of thirty local and national artists. The site is currently owned by Kentro Properties and the future fate of Project Colfax…
Last week, I suggested a Venn diagram for contemporary painting, sculpture and installation in which there were three circles: representation, abstraction and conceptualism. At that time, I talked about the overlap between representation and abstraction. This time, though, I’d like to address not only the point at which abstraction and…
Like all good things, MCA Denver’s spectacular Marilyn Minter exhibition had to come to an end — but not without a splashy and glittery farewell bash. A sellout crowd of art lovers turned out on Saturday night to dance away the Pretty/Dirty show at the museum, with help from DJs…
DJ spins, live music, poetry and fashion mixed it up Saturday for another edition of Boombaptricks at Bar Red. Photographer Brandon Marshall brought back these fly photos from the show. Now see the full Boombaptricks slide show…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we take a look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Denver native Lisa Garness Mallory had been a commercial insurance administrator…
Karl Marx has been quoted — not quite accurately — as calling religion the “opiate for the masses.” If art is your religion, you’ll want to overdose on Opiates for the Masses, a new show at Helikon Gallery that’s guest-curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, the busy duo who own Sally Centigrade gallery. In…
While some folks have been sculpting blocks of ice for the International Snow Sculpture Championship in Breck this week, others are going pyrotechnical by lighting the nights with art borne from flames for the Breckenridge Fire Arts Festival. Yin or yang – take your pick: The snow sculpture extravaganza ends…
Brush off winter and take in some art: This weekend at Front Range galleries, you can go big, revel in the small or walk on the wild side. Jenene Nagy: Disappear Here GOCA at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs January 29 through March 12 Opening reception: 5 to 8 p.m…
Broadly speaking, the Venn diagram of contemporary art as it applies to painting, sculpture and installation has three circles: representational, abstract and conceptual. This week, I’m looking at multiple shows at two venues that feature work that exists where the representational circle overlaps the abstract one. Next week, I’ll discuss…
Photographer Todd Duane Miller decided to leave Las Vegas after thirteen years of working to establish a grass-roots movement in that city’s fickle arts scene. In October, Miller relocated to Denver and opened 701 Gallery just off Santa Fe Drive at 701 West Sixth Avenue, where he plans to feature unconventional art…
