Deepak Chopra is a new-agey self-help spiritualist whose doctrines are rooted in Indian religion and culture; his son, Gotham Chopra, is an all-American boy who publishes comics and makes movies about superheroes across the ages. Together, they have written a new book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our…
It’s not everyday you get to see an 8-foot-tall robot made of scrap metal or 2-foot minion playing projecting claymation off of its chest. Luckily, tomorrow, over ten artists will be displaying these and other works in several mediums including sculpture, lights and 2-D art in the robot-themed art show…
The flock of seventeen artist-decorated fiberglass felines that are the core of the Cat Care Society’s fundraiser Tails of the Painted Cats traveled far and wide in the preceding months, curling up in Santa Fe Drive galleries in April and at the Lakewood Arts Council Gallery in May. But now…
Four the last four years running, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s gallery on Santa Fe has done an annual show dedicated to Frida Kahlo, queen of the surrealist self-portrait and owner of the most celebrated unibrow of all time. This year, though, the gallery is doing it a little…
Clay is arguably the first medium ever invented by humans — one of the oldest prehistoric artifacts ever found was a drinking vessel made of sun-dried clay — and it’ll soon be the star of the largest single-subject exhibition the Denver Art Museum has ever mounted: Marvelous Mud, scheduled to…
Most commercials you’ll be subjected to on any given day will probably bore you, or maybe make you chuckle a smidge. Very few make the effort, or have the ability, to grab you the way this new spot from Audi does. More fine art than advert, this is a commercial…
Moving into the second week of her 100 Days Project, local artist Karen Bozik, whom we first visited with here last Monday, found herself running into mental and academic roadblocks. The aesthetics are there, she acknowledges, but in terms of a complete package, she’s unwilling to speed through the research…
There are three sharp-looking shows at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200, www.sparkgallery.com) that feature abstraction, hyper-realism and animation-inspired imagery. Sue Simon: Trajectory is an elegant show in which multi-panel paintings combine linear abstractions with mathematical equations. The point is that everything in the universe is in motion, even…
A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations of what might have caused…
Like all of us, Skype began as a mere twinkle in the eye of its creators. In less than ten years, it had matured into a beautiful adult. Skype has made its Swedish, Danish and Estonian parents proud, with its latest life accomplishment — you guessed it — being sold…
When people think of Colorado Springs these days, right-wing Christian fundamentalist politics come to mind more than art does. But for much of the twentieth century, the city at the base of Pikes Peak was the unrivaled center of the state’s art world. The best evidence of this is the…
This coming Sunday, several very fast cars will drive around in a circle 200 times for a total distance of 500 miles, an annual tradition that has now been going on for exactly a century. Yes, it’s the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, one of the premier events in…
Denver PrideFest has announced the theme of this year’s festival: “These Colors Don’t Run: Honoring our LGBT Servicemembers and Veterans.” Organizers were inspired by Congress’s vote to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which would allow openly gay men and women to serve in the military. “We wanted to celebrate what…
Denver painter Karen Bozik first learned of the 100 Days Project, an annual collaborative online project for which a network of people working in interdisciplinary art create a work per day for 100 days and share the process through blog pages, from Sabin Aell, whose Hinterland gallery is currently showing…
The Ladies Fancywork Society, Denver’s ragtag gang of street knitters, has made the big time — as in the Gray Lady. Yesterday, the New York Times published a big story on the trend of yard bombing, a process that the paper said “takes that most matronly craft (knitting) and that…
The last leg of Create Denver Week was by no means an afterthought: Rather, Your Sunday Best, for which Fashion Denver’s Sprout spring market and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Crafty Ballyhoo shared quarters at the Grant-Humphreys mansion, was rife with good vibes, in spite of the cloudy weather. And, typically…
Advertising is like a cultural mirror, which shapes the way we think of ourselves and others. But are our commercials reflections of us or are we reflections of our commercials? This question of advertising’s power to shape our culture comes to mind when watching this new spot for Google Chrome,…
Earlier this year, Robin Rule made the surprise announcement that she was relocating her swank-looking Broadway gallery to a much smaller space immediately adjacent to Ice Cube in the RiNo neighborhood. A couple of weeks ago, she opened the doors to this latest iteration of the Rule Gallery (3340 Walnut…
It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps…
O, glory day for all Trekkies! Today marks the thirteenth 23rd year since the original air date of “The Neutral Zone,” the one and only episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that has had humans everywhere imagining themselves on the Enterprise. It was on this momentous day that the…
Rob Bell and John McCaskill of Derailed Ink, a small local t-shirt screen-printing business that’s had a fair amount of success with its sports-related tees, don’t have a problem with being small. It’s the pressure of big business that they don’t like. “We got tired of corporate entities dictating what…
It doesn’t take much evidence beyond his most famous paintings to suspect that Salvador Dalí was a weird dude: The persistence of crazy, distended forms, melting clocks, blood, rot and genitals is probably enough to draw that conclusion. But Dalí’s weirdness went far beyond its expression in his paintings; From…
