With the Month of Photography flooding city venues this month, Denver is drowning in photo shows. Among the standouts in this more intimate category are the conjoined solos at Goodwin Fine Art, Brenda Biondo: Paper Skies and Alpert + Kahn: Of Progress.
Painter Don Coen spent roughly twenty years working on a series of fifteen paintings of migrant workers, on display at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center through May 14. The artist, who entered his career as a non-objective painter, shifted toward depicting landscapes and ultimately portraits based on photographs. While…
Meow Wolf could soon be howling in Denver: The Santa Fe sensation has been exploring expansion to a number of cities, including Las Vegas, Austin and the Mile High City. But long before Meow Wolf puts its paws down here permanently, Denver will be sending one of its most beloved acts there: Avant-ritualists Itchy-O will offer a special, one-night-only performance at Meow Wolf on Saturday, March 25.
Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 performed in Denver last season for the first time, and will enchant audiences here again this month with The Stor(ies) of You and Me. Showcasing five pieces choreographed by Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager and former Houston Ballet dancer Caleb Mitchell, the performance explores various perspectives on…
Denver Arts and Venues and Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts organization that’s considering opening a spot in Denver, just announced a partnership that calls for Arts and Venues to contribute $20,000 to a fund that will be used to help Denver’s DIY and alternative spaces..
When Kate T. Parker started shooting photos of her two daughters, both tomboys, she noticed that her favorite pictures were those in which her children were totally themselves — not posing and primping as girls are too often taught to do. She started shooting other girls, and soon her images…
We’ve already given you some MoP 2017 viewing pointers in our must-see list of photography shows popping up all over the metro area, but a quick check-in at the MoP website reveals a much wider scope of what seems like an endless stream of exhibitions. Never fear: Now, we’ve broken…
One of the early standouts of Denver’s Month of Photography is Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, at the Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s off-campus exhibition space in the Art District on Santa Fe. The show comprises more than sixty works by a dozen artists, all natives of Muslim-majority countries. Most of these artists no longer live in their homelands, though, and have immigrated to the United States or Canada.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts has seen a lot of turnover in recent years, but one guiding force has been board chairman Daniel Ritchie. Today, March 7, the organization announced he will be replaced in that role by Martin Semple, an attorney who has specialized in employment law —…
The Denver Art Museum’s Star Wars and the Power of Costume has brought thousands into the venerable institution who might otherwise never have walked through its doors. Because of public demand, the nationally recognized exhibit that has been compared to Donald Trump —”Both are mega-entertaining, show-biz fluffs that have puffed…
The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set on Christmas morning. Some of them never abandoned that dream, and even after realizing it,…
The 2017 edition of Denver’s biennial Month of Photography is a lot to swallow in a month — a good reason why MoP show openings are usually spread out over several weeks. But don’t be daunted. There’s so much worth seeing in this community-wide effort, which this year loosely circles…
Aurora is one of several Colorado cities talking with Artspace, a nationally renowned nonprofit developer, about creating live-work space for artists. On March 1, the discussion came to the Vintage Theatre, where Artspace discussed the possibility of putting a live-work space for artists in the Aurora Cultural Arts District. At…
On the internet, where space is vast and seemingly never-ending, there’s beauty in the brevity of Sommer Browning’s work. The local poet, author, comic artist and librarian has just released two new works, Want Me to Tell You About This Dream I Had?, a collection of her dreams transcribed, and…
Geometric abstraction, an international current, has played an outsized role in the modern art of the American West for the past fifty years, maybe longer. Consider the career of Colorado’s Clark Richert, Agnes Martin’s work in New Mexico…you get the idea. This type of work has not only held on to its relevance, but it’s currently making a comeback. A strong case for that return is The Connected Edge, at the William Havu Gallery, where a trio of artists — two from New Mexico and one from Wyoming — are showing compositions with strong linear elements.
Theo Wilson, a true Renaissance Man, is an activist and artist who won a national slam-poetry contest. Now he’s created a true salon with Shop Talk Live, his community-building sessions held in local barbershops and beauty shops.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts just announced its 2017-’18 Broadway season, and it includes Hamilton, which will be open at the Buell Theatre on February 27, 2018 — which means less than a year to wait. Tickets to the full Broadway subscription season are now on sale; single-show tickets will be available at a later date.
Fort Collins photographer Tim Van Schmidt started going to concerts in Los Angeles in the 1970s. He wrote about rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and about the early years of punk. By 1980, he’d moved to Fort Collins, where he started writing a fanzine and a weekly…
Video Station held its an annual Oscar contest on Sunday, February 26…and the next day, the 35-year-old Boulder store announced that it would be shuttering its doors for good early in March. The news was sad but not surprising; what’s remarkable is that the brick-and-mortar video store stayed open year after…
The Mixed Taste got its start at the Lab at Belmar; when director Adam Lerner moved over to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he brought Mixed Taste with him. And now it’s about to move on again: to Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
One moment that encompassed the entire feel of Artopia: immediately after the fashion show, the bottom floor was taken down and the runway transformed into a live-painting session space equip with walls for a handful of the most talented artists in Denver.
With a bowling alley, arcade, and a gastropub-style dining venue, The Wild Game Entertainment Experience is making a play to be Longmont’s one-stop shop for fun.
