Adam Milner: Desirable Objects, now on display at the David B. Smith Gallery, highlights recent works by Adam Milner, an artist who lives in Pittsburgh but is still well remembered in Colorado for his time here. Many of these pieces hark back to the kind of personal things Milner has…
John Cleese is one of the funniest actors alive. Known for his work with Monty Python and in A Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Tours and so many more films and television shows, the performer is headed to Denver to tell stories from his life and career.
If you don’t follow comedy closely, you probably best remember the hilarious comic, woodworker and author Nick Offerman for his curmudgeonly man’s man role, Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation.
Brian Jabas Smith has played for crowds of 10,000, but he says reading from his debut collection of short stories, Spent Saints and Other Stories, at some of the stops on his coast-to-coast book tour has actually been more nerve-wracking. Smith’s been a national-class bicyclist, rock ‘n roll frontman, alcoholic and crystal meth addict, and journalist, and it’s these experiences that fuel Spent Saints, which turn an empathetic and nuanced eye towards characters on the margins. On the third leg of a book tour that’s seen him reading in between rock sets (namely, the Tough Shits and Rocky Four) as well as leading a writing workshop at a Memphis Boys & Girls Club, Smith will be reading and screening the web series based on the collection at the Boulder Bookstore on July 11 at 7:30 p.m. In advance of the reading, Westword got on the phone with Smith, who called from the 110-degree heat of Tucson.
Summer in Denver, and the calendar is so packed that you can’t begin to hit all the festivals, markets, parties and celebrations around town. But this weekend, we went out for you: Keep reading for a look at six events in Denver over the July 7-9 weekend, with links to our slideshows.
Since it started in 2010, the Creative Rituals Under Social Harmony festival, or CRUSH, has grown to a major celebration of street art. This year’s event will paint the town from September 11 through September 17, 2017.
Anthony Powell, who’s directing the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, hasn’t paid much attention to the intense controversy surrounding the version staged by the Public Theater in New York’s Central Park, in which Caesar—who’s bloodily assassinated in the play—is given a distinctly Trumpian appearance and a wife with an Eastern European accent.
If you ever attended the Colorado Theatre Guild’s annual Henry awards, you might have noticed the woman sitting quietly in the audience amid all the jubilation, tension, excitement and flying air kisses. This would have been Gloria Shanstrom.
Mark Bradford is big at the Biennale this summer, but you don’t need to go to Venice to see his work; you can see his paintings at the Denver Art Museum, and the Clyfford Still works that inspired him at the Clyfford Still Museum.
At her new Denver studio/gallery, ATC DEN, Laura Krudener invites gallery-goers to come inside and throw off their creative inhibitions.
For Colorado artists weighed down by a shortage of studios, ever-rising rent and increased government scrutiny of DIY spaces, Concept was going to be “a space to dream, create, inspire,” promised founder Jeanie Nuanes King on the con.cept colorado Facebook page. But on July 5, Nuanes King announced that the dream is over.
Catch up on a veteran installationist, creative comic artists, the future of still life and a couple of rising stars — or just go to a swinging party — with these six picks.
The Fourth of July is such a definitively American holiday that its festivities cannot be contained to one calendar day. Aside from Independence Day celebrations,Denver has plenty of free and cheap events for its residents to attend.
On July 1, the second-floor living room of Paul Keefe’s Corona Street house will become the art gallery Grand Opening. Its inaugural, one-night-only exhibit, The Fridge Show, aims to bring together art by Denverites and out-of-state artists alike.
Motocross, a sport better known for revving engines and adrenaline than reflective documentaries, gets personal in Spectrum, a web series whose first episode, featuring Colorado Springs native Andrew Short, makes its screening premiere Friday at SeriesFest.
Venture out, sweaty Denverites. All you need is a crisp Hamilton and an open mind to see all the best Colorado has to offer.
Walk toward the Sloan’s Lake Alamo Drafthouse from the parking structure on Conejos Place, and you can’t miss the angular sculpture built with intersecting planks of steel, beckoning moviegoers toward the sidewalk that leads them toward the theater.
This morning, the City Council Safety, Housing, Education, and Homelessness Committee unanimously voted to move forward the Safe Occupancy Plan, an effort to wrangle two seemingly opposed aims — fire code compliance and the preservation of DIY art spaces — into compatibility.
Among this summer’s attractions at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver is Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View, a solo curated by Zoe Larkins that represents a followup to Velasquez’s 2015 Black Cube project. It’s a timely topic in a rapidly gentrifying city.
Over six months after the city closed two DIY spaces for safety issues, Denver Community Planning and Development and the Denver Fire Department, along with other agencies, have announced their proposal for the Safe Occupancy Program, a “voluntary path to compliance for existing spaces.” That proposal goes to a Denver City Council committee today, but Amplify Arts Denver says it is “deeply flawed.”
June may be winding to a close, but that hasn’t slowed Denver’s creative community’s tireless grind. Whether experimenting with European board games, eyeing nerd-inspired artwork in a hip boutique or taking songwriting lessons from Jill Sobule, you have access to everything you need to stay cultured, informed and entertained.
Denver is full of creative types, and you never know when you’re going to meet someone full of talent. At a house party in the Whittier neighborhood, we ran into Micah Bontrager, an audio and visual artist who makes music under the moniker Anicca Meeca.
