Although the middle of July marked the apex of activities related to the 2013 Denver Biennial of the Americas, the official exhibits connected to the event are still going through this weekend. The first rendition of the Biennial, which took place three years ago (meaning this incarnation was one year…
Even the hardest-willed Type A sometimes needs to slow down. And naturally, so do the rest of us. Tonight in the garden behind Hinterland, everyone’s welcome to sample three loosely interrelated mind-loosening disciplines designed to slow down your pulse and amp up your chakras during SAN, an evening of “music,…
“Let’s make a gigantic agricultural plowshare,” is the thought that inspired artist Emmett Culligan to create “Plow,” the large sculpture that resides at the County Line light-rail station. Culligan answered a few questions about this piece in our latest installment of our RTD art series and discussed the purpose he…
In the new millennium, modernism is something of a conundrum. As immediate as it is retro, the mid-century ethos of streamlined design and space-age concerns is enjoying something of a style renaissance. Blame Mad Men if you must, but mid-century is cool again. That explains why Dana Cain’s Denver Modernism…
When thinking about alternative forms of transportation, Stapleton Transportation Management Association Director Angie Malpiede saw an opportunity to talk about walking. “I went to CDOT and said, you know, transportation-demand management has always been about taking transit — carpooling, van-pooling and even biking — but I want to add walking…
Michael Paglia visits the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities in this week’s review. Both of these exhibits focus on linear art. The show at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is a solo exhibit centered around Charles Bunnell, a key pioneer of vanguard…
As I’ve looked at Colorado art over the years, I’ve noticed that certain approaches have emerged as predominant. The most obvious example would be the popularity of landscapes in drawings, prints, photos and paintings. And that’s no surprise, since the Colorado Rockies (the mountains, not the baseball team) are this…
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, is half of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart, Charlie Boots, will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell,…
For more than a decade, Susan Cooper has helped make your wait for an RTD train a lot more pleasant. As a member of the art team, she’s helped with projects at many of the stations. She’s also the creator of the Tufts Flyover that connects Tufts and Santa Fe…
The three tall sculptures at the Arapahoe at Village Center light-rail station look like they could fit together as a puzzle. But as it turns out, there’s nothing puzzling about the concept behind this piece: Sculptor Michael Clapper created it to represent Greenwood Village itself. He recently talked with us…
Even as the third annual US Pro Challenge takes off from Aspen today, a bicycle-art show is taking off a Denver International Airport. Using bicycles, artists have created representation of all the cities involved in the US Pro Challenge: Aspen/Snowmass, Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Beaver Creek, Vail, Loveland, Fort Collins and…
Zoe Yabrove has been profiling RTD’s public-art pieces, and this Monday, her series reached”Winter Crossing,” the stunning mural by Denver artist Stephen Batura that hung at Union Station for a decade — and then disappeared when the historic facility was closed for major renovations. “RTD removed the work more than…
In the thirty-plus years that Pirate Contemporary Art has been part of the Denver arts landscape, dozens of member artists have marched in and out of the trail-blazing cooperative’s doors. Every once in a while, they come back. See also: – My first art purchase: a Louis Recchia piece from…
No need to check your watch if you’re at the light-rail station at Littleton and Mineral: Robert Tully took full advantage of Colorado’s sunny days when he created his public-art piece, “The Silver Band of Present Time.” He recently took a few minutes to talk with us about art, public…
Collin Parson wears two hats in the local art world — three, if you count the fact that he is the son of prominent area sculptor Charles Parson. One is as the director of the visual-art program at the Arvada Center, where he has shown himself to be a gifted…
It takes a lot of work to be creative. It takes even more to become a Certified Creative District in Colorado. But for the areas that are successful, it’s worth the effort. Born out of a 2011 state law, the Certified Creative Districts program allows areas all over Colorado to…
When Desperately Seeking Susan arrived in theaters in 1985, Madonna was already a star. In the movie, she played Susan — who unknowingly trades places with co-star Rosanna Arquette’s Roberta, a bored housewife — and that character seemed uncannily similar to the real-life Madonna, only in widescreen format. Over the…
From Yves Saint Laurent’s couture homages to Mondrian, Matisse and Braque to Yayoi Kusama’s dotty collection and shop environments for Louis Vuitton, high fashion and fine art have long been entangled. It’s a mutual admiration club you can wear on your body — if you can afford it — that…
Sculptor John McEnroe has created some of the most controversial pieces of public art in the area. But not only has he given Colorado plenty of talk about, he’s also taken inspiration for his work from Colorado. We recently caught up with McEnroe to talk about how his piece “Fools…
“Are giant bears walking through downtown Colorado Springs?” asked a nitwitted FoxNews anchor last week, after video of the dumpster-diving bruin outside of the Edelweiss German Restaurant in Colorado Springs aired for the umpteenth time on the network. And Fox wasn’t alone; the schnitzel-hunting bear became an instant celebrity around…
The public art that RTD has been commissioning for light-rail stations — and we’ve been profiling this summer — is just the latest wave of transportion related work. Stephen Batura’s painting “Winter Crossing” originally hung in Union Station — but with all the construction going on there, this piece of…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots is part of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri…
