Tron: Legacy, hittin’ the streets on DVD and bluray yesterday, was supposed to be a coup of geekery. A sequel no one really wanted but diehard fans of a box office flop from 1982; it got made anyway — and against all odds, it looked like awesome 3D geeknip. Jeff…
Painting inspired by graffiti is a style that was established in the ’80s by the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and has since become an old standard in contemporary art. Interestingly, over the past few years, a new generation of artists has reinvigorated the approach (think Banksy), and…
What kind of idiot eats a sandwich while standing over an open casket? A very special kind, and you just gotta love him. This advert for a good cause requires just as much creativity as advertising for a bad cause. Maybe even more. It takes the ability to pull at…
When 4-year-old Aiden Gumz of Evergreen put his parents in frog suits and set out to film a dance video, he had a vision: to make something awesome He succeeded. The result of his efforts, FrogP, was avant-garde and experimental like Stan Brakhage, but also unexpectedly poignant and sweet like…
Reality TV’s most impressive characteristic is its ability to find drama in literally everything. Somehow, through some combination of theatrical background music or clever video editing or strategic misuse of footage, it makes even the most insignificant events perilous and thrilling. There are not many similarities between Denver’s Next Improv…
Dear Barry Bonds, The prosecution is set to wrap today its case against you for four counts of false testimony and one count of obstructing justice on account of you gave false testimony to a grand jury in 2003 about taking performance enhancing drugs during your time with the San…
The controversy surrounding the artist Rob Cancer’s depiction of what many conservative Christians have protested as the Virgin Mary fellating Christ took a bizarre turn this week, when CONSTRUCT GalleryArtSpaceBlackBox, where the painting has been on display, noticed a substance that appeared to be blood forming around the area of…
If you’re curious what you might be getting yourself into attending Boards for Kids this weekend, we’ve got a preview of some of the decks. You should be able to start scoping them out around 6 p.m. tomorrow evening, but the decks don’t actually go on sale until 8 p.m…
Ray Young Chu was true Denver original we were sorry to see go. After shaking up the local art scene with his colorful canvas-based fusion of anime and photorealism and his experimental “art band” The Yummies — which involved Chu and his colleagues rapping and doing graffiti in bear and…
Not that it comes as much of a surprise when it comes to the woman so possessed with Christ-loving zeal that she walked into a Loveland art museum and smashed a work of art with a crowbar, but Kathleen Folden is crazy — and in the way typical of evangelical…
A mustache is like the modern-day equivalent of Samson’s hair: a source of almost superhuman potency for all who wear it. (Also, both are made of hair.) That said, the fact that only men and certain particularly virile women are capable of mustache wearage puts pretty much everything else at…
Walking into the Denver Art Museum’s current Blink! exhibit is kind of like walking into Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory (except far less dangerous to children with slack morals): There’s just a whole lot going on, and you really have no idea what most of it is or what you’re supposed…
Everyone loves a hero. Add a little mystery and some suspense, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for an epic tale of valor and woe, which we all love. (If you don’t love a tale of valor and woe, you can get the hell off this planet.) The folks at…
The Jersey Shore’s third season just wrapped up, and the crew is headed to Italy. In a statement last January, MTV announced that the show’s fourth season will be shot in “the birthplace of the culture [the cast members] love and live by” — a questionable decision, given that the…
There’s a principle in Buddhist philosophy that the journey ultimately matters more than the destination — what exists besides right now? — and, in that capacity, Improv Star is pretty much nothing but nirvana. In the words of one contestant: “as long as you’re steering it somewhere, you don’t really…
Sabin Aell of Hinterland took up the challenge of Denver’s Month of Photography by putting out an international call for entries for work that is “wild, uncontrolled, different, luminous, beautiful, sparkling, in the flow.” It’s a tall order, but that’s exactly what came up out of the ground for jurors…
Looking ahead to the citywide Create Denver arts blowout in May, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Denver Theatre District are teaming up to put the work of some Denver digital media artists up in lights — really big ones — on the giant outdoor LED screen at 14th and Champa…
Timothy Flood is into deconstruction. And right now, he’s into musical instruments — specifically, pulling them apart and rebuilding them into things that basically perform the same tasks, but in radically different ways and for totally different purposes. How different? Try this on for size: One part of the installation…
Within just a few hours of the time local artist Talia Kauk installed 1,000 paper cranes outside the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum yesterday, without permission, security came out, snipped them down and tossed them in the trash, and they were gone. Conceived as a commentary on the…
Advertising is an expression of the culture in which it exists. It is a reflection of ourselves through the lens of very intelligent people whose job it is to know more about our inner psychology than any of us want to admit. Turns out that psychology degree was not a…
This year has started with a bang for those of us who are fascinated by the visual arts culture in Colorado. In January, RedLine unveiled a wholehearted salute to Dale Chisman, a master in the field of abstract painting here during the last three decades. With that show, one of…
Some years ago, Denver artist (and Westword MasterMind, class of 2007) Katie Taft instigated and curated the Self Made salon series at Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, wherein artists gave informal talks and networking and discussion ensued over food and drink. Financial realities and life then got in the way, and…
