Everybody’s seen those lovely “Meth Will Change That” billboards dreamed up by the Colorado Meth Project, which depict scenarios so vile they’ll surely make you want to drop the dope or at least reach for a Handi Wipe. Now local comedians Adam Cayton-Holland and Greg Baumhauer have applied the concept…
Many people complain that street art detracts from a community and cite it as a main influence in rising crime rates and subsequent vandalism, but what happens when so-called vandalism actually benefits a neighborhood? Is it no longer crime? Could it actually be a good thing? The non-profit organization TED,…
The timing couldn’t be more perfect. Today’s installation of sculptor Mike Whiting’s touted public work Rhino at the intersection of Larimer and 24th streets at the gateway to the RiNo Arts District flawlessly dovetails with tonight’s opening reception for his solo show Primitives down the street at Plus Gallery. And…
Haven’t you always wanted to do this? I guess if you’re the artist, it’s okay. This photo of Donald Lipski sitting atop his sculpture The Yearling on the lawn of the Denver Central Library appears in The Facebook Show, Volume 1: Profile Portraits from the FB, currently at Detroit’s Museum…
It seems like we’re accustomed to a lot of different types of freelance positions, from writers to designers and even lawn care. Even still, it was a bit surprising to find out freelance computer programmers exist, too. Sure, it’s a thin line between running your own business and freelancing, but…
The Parents Television Council has got it out for Fox. It makes sense: The PTC is made up of easily offended people hiding their fear of seeing their values system challenged behind their children. Fox, from its “news” to its entertainment, has been since day one the sleaziest name in…
Artist Eric Drooker’s existentially spooky urban drawings and paintings often adorn the cover of The New Yorker or the pages of such graphic novels as Bloodsong and Illuminated Poems, the latter a collaboration with the late poet Allen Ginsberg, then a fellow denizen of New York’s Lower East Side. It…
You can’t escape your family. No matter how old and weak they get, no matter how far you run, they will always be there to humiliate you with their bizarre habits and their documentation of your participation in them. Now, happily for everyone but you, the internetz are here to…
If there’s one thing you can say for Dancing with the Stars, besides that it’s easily the campiest show in prime-time, it’s that the show has an excellent track record of showcasing Republicans being voluntarily ridiculous. Why, it was just last year that Tom DeLay was onstage looking like a…
We can all feel comfortable calling Mark Amerika, the artist pioneer in new media technology, at least half-Coloradan, since he lives in Boulder (a separate republic, perhaps, but Colorado all the same) half of the time. And we can all cheer for him as a local when Amerika’s latest ground-breaking…
Last weekend’s Harajuku Street Fashion Party at Hinterland aimed to educate while giving aficonados a chance to deck out in Japanese pop styles and have a good time. If you were there, you might have caught on. And then again, you might not have. Here’s a vague pathway through the…
Fall is a busy time of year in the art world, and it’s hard to believe how quickly the weather and the local exhibits are changing. In fact, this season’s fall openers are rapidly heading to their appointed closings. With that in mind, I’m catching up and recommending two shows…
Woman attacks artwork: It was one of those stories guaranteed to get Colorado into the national spotlight. On October 6, Kathleen Folden, a fundamentalist Christian from Montana, acting on her religious zeal, attacked a print of “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (pictured below),” by Enrique Chagoya, which was on…
Indian summer? I think it came and went last Friday when balmy temperatures held into the evening for gallery-goers crossing back and forth on Delgany Street during twin openings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Art by Craft show across the street. Outdoors, the…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
It was third Friday-time again last night, and at Vertigo Art Space, that means artist reception time. Though not as crazy as the first Friday gallery openings on Sante Fe, third Friday receptions often provide a more intimate and focused evening for art fans. Last night, Dorothy Tanner hosted her…
In was weird enough when a 40-foot statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, moved into the Denver International Airport as a tie-in to the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit, provoking a renewed flurry of hand-wringing from people who believe DIA is secretly houses an alien…
Maybe it just means Finland is humorless, but it’s a pretty sad day for the world when a news anchor gets fired for making an on-air joke — and a pretty funny one, at that. Finnish English-language news anchor Kimmo Wilska was in the middle of a segment on bars…
Kim Kardashian sucks at bowling. That said, she looked really good while sucking at bowling when she hosted the opening of a new upscale casino in Connecticut a few days ago. That’s not the point though. The point is, I really don’t need to know this about Kim Kardashian. It’s…
Denver Arts week is just around the corner, with special events all over town for folks of all ages and cultural interests. It also heralds one of the biggest First Fridays of the year citywide on November 5, including in RiNo, where the galleries and artist studios will be pouring…
As everyone knows, Wednesday is the day that we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in the form of a compendium of whatever loosely related images we happen to come up with. “But wait,” you may say, “Wednesday was yesterday.” About that, my friend, you would be…
It was not a good day to get high. On a Wednesday afternoon, in a flurry of half-assed planning and with a pile of work accumulating on my desk back at the office like snow in a blizzard, I was on my way up to Central City for our All…
