Hundreds of people have taken books from the Denver Public Library and never returned them, racking up so many fees that showing their face at the library is embarrassing — and pointless, since $5 in fines means you can’t borrow additional books. But even if all is not forgiven, the…
The crowds came out to Santa Fe Drive and other Denver arts districts on the first Friday of November, just as they do on every first Friday of the year. But because it was also the kickoff for Denver Arts Week, there may have been a few people experiencing it…
To call Chihuly, which closes November 30 after several months at the Denver Botanic Gardens, a success, would be something of an understatement. Made up of Dale Chihuly’s monumental glass sculptures nestled into the picturesque landscaping of the grounds, the show has nearly doubled last year’s attendance numbers at the…
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. Tylor Belshe is a near-native: He came to Colorado during his sophomore…
It just got easier to laugh in Denver. Kayvan Khalatbari, local ganjaprenuer, owner of three Sexy Pizza spots and godfather of the Sexpot series of comedy shows, just launched a new website that ties together many of the various strands that make up Denver’s burgeoning comedy scene. The site, SexpotComedy.com,…
Mike McClung, the director of Michael Warren Contemporary, curated Drips, Drops, Pours and Spins, a show featuring four abstract artists who all use the liquid and viscous quality of pigments to create non-objective compositions, the subjects of which are the pigments themselves. See also: Review: Discovering and Interpreting the West…
After providing community health and services in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood for decades, Servicios de la Raza moved this week to a new home at 3131 West 14th Avenue. To do so, the organization had to sell its buildings at 41st Avenue and Tejon Street, which meant the removal of the…
Tuesday, November 11, is Veterans Day — but around the globe it’s known as Remembrance Day, the holiday created to mark the end of World War I, which formally concluded at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1919. “World War I was supposed to…
Discovering and Interpreting the West The Arvada Center 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard It was the scenic Rocky Mountains that first attracted artists to Colorado 150 years ago, and paintings and photos of the landscape are the works that laid the foundation for the rapidly developing art scene we have here now…
Colorado artist Jerry Jaramillo was devastated when he found out that his mural, “Primavera,” had been sandblasted and removed from a brick wall at the corner of 41st Avenue and Tejon Street in Sunnyside, where it had been for more than thirty years. “It felt like I lost a child…
Yesterday my friend Philip Spangler crammed all the belongings he came with plus one of Lawrence Argent’s iconic blue bear statuettes into his Dodge Neon and hit the road to his new home in Chicago. Along with him rode my intern, Nico Larsen who is off to check out the…
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. Oregon-based artists Mandie and Nate Flemming love the Denver art scene so…
Casey Hartnett gave up a career in finance to travel the world without a plan — just guided by his spirit. “If something felt good, then that’s the path I chose,” Hartnet says. “I just kept following beautiful things. If something made sense, then that’s where I would go.” Through…
Yinfinity: New Works by Dmitri Obergfell Gildar Gallery 82 South Broadway The Gildar Gallery is a modest, nearly anonymous South Broadway storefront with minimal exhibition space, but to his credit, director Adam Gildar continues to present a schedule of thoughtful shows, even if some of them aren’t entirely successful. That’s…
Mary DeForest loves Jane Austen. The 68-year-old academic has read each of the author’s novels over 100 times. “I went to her tomb at Winchester Cathedral and burst into tears,” she says. “I couldn’t believe she was dead.” DeForest has spent much of her academic career defending Austen’s legacy. “Austen…
My friend Philip Spangler has been here almost three months and is staying one more week, sleeping on a futon in my living room and working on the house every day. By the end of the week the goal is to have a fully-clad, Tyvek-wrapped box with a loft and…
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. Daniel Neeman wakes up early so he can open the Tattered Covered…
Colors may have faded in the mountains, but the local art scene is full of stunning visuals, including the otherworldly imagery of Paul Gillis at Rule, a group show exploring the cutting edge of realism at 1261, and fresh offerings from the local co-op Core and the artist-run Valkarie Gallery…
Chuck Parson: Still and Centered Point Z Art Department 1136 Speer Boulevard Chuck Parson, who helped pioneer the conceptual abstraction movement around here forty years ago, is the subject of a major outing at Z Art Department called Still and Centered Point. The exhibit includes more than sixty installations, sculptures…
Walk around any neighborhood in Denver and it is easy to see how fast the city is growing — new architecture seems to be popping up around every corner. This Saturday, October 25, four newly-built homes will open their doors to the public for a closer look as part of…
Kevin O’Connell: Memories of Water Lucas Foglia: Frontcountry William Lamson: Automatic Robischon Gallery 1740 Wazee Street The varied and reliably dramatic vistas of the American West are the reason there’s a category of work called Western art. The scenery, from mountains to plains, deserts to lakes, has a celebrity quality…
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School — a life-drawing class combined with a cabaret show — is back. Burlesque artist Vivienne VaVoom (aka Michelle Baldwin) launched Dr. Sketchy’s five years ago, but she put it on unintentional hiatus a few years ago. “I decided it was time to take a break because…
