Scrolling through Facebook a few weeks ago, I happened upon a post that got me excited, a listing on Craigslist for a gutted mobile boutique in a 1997 Ford e350 bus. Clicking through the pictures of the well-cared-for bus, with a hardwood floor and integrated lights, I found a familiar…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Jonathan McAfee went from being “a relatively big fish in a small…
Teams of budding artists gathered at Syntax Physic Opera over the weekend to compete and create in the Sculpture Brunch. The bar provided art supplies — found objects, tools, paint and glue — as well as brunch and cocktails, while guests hammered, painted and glued their way toward artistic achievement…
In the large front space at Michael Warren Contemporary, director Mike McClung is presenting a sweet little solo called Equations: New Paintings by Teresa Booth Brown. The show follows Brown’s sensational drawing exhibit last fall at Ironton Gallery; that venue has since closed, to be replaced by the Colorado Photographic…
New year, new ideas: There are plenty of those floating around local galleries this month, and a number of shows with interactive and media-based elements are opening this weekend. And then there’s a double-shot of the late Roland Bernier, offered in companion shows at Spark and Walker Fine Art. Look…
City, O’ City awoke to a surprise yesterday: A mystery graffiti artist had used the west-facing utility box in front of the restaurant at Sherman Street and East 13th Avenue to create this hybrid Lemmy Kilmister and David Bowie wheat-paste piece. And the artist really nailed the culmination of loss people…
Jerry De La Cruz was born and raised in Denver and first expressed his artistic talents by winning a coloring contest at the age of seven. Although his solo at the Museo de las Americas, A Road Well Traveled: An Art Life Retrospective: Jerry De La Cruz, doesn’t go back…
“You don’t have to see the shed, I normally wouldn’t get excited by a shed,” says Tim Roberts, co-owner of Counterpath Press, a Westword MasterMind, as he jiggles the key in the lock anyway. Inside are boxes of books: experimental poetry, performance manuscripts, transcripts. Roberts opens a box and digs…
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts started small in 1993 in a vacant storefront, eventually taking over the rest of of the building as other tenants emptied out. The initial space was one where they had to make do, notes DAVA director Susan Jenson, and that’s what they did: The organization’s free art-education…
Over the weekend, Station — a street-style retailer and art gallery new to the Five Points neighborhood — joined forces with Far Out Zines to host a zine-themed art show and zine swap. Photographer Ken Hamblin III was there to record the evening. Now see the full AMAZiNE! slide show…
Transplants, let me try to explain why it seems like the natives hate you. I’ve read any number of comments in Westword talking about how “mean” and “unwelcoming” the natives are, and how we’re all just haters who need to get over ourselves. I’ve also written a fair amount about the…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “It’s pronounced ‘keel,’ like the keel of a boat, or to keel…
We’re hesitant to tell you about Pon Pon, because once you know about this boozy, beautiful, artistic spot at 2538 Walnut Street, it will be harder for us to get a seat at the bar. Still, the place is so great we can’t resist sharing the news. Paul Garcia and…
It’s a new year, and time to celebrate new work: From fresh reinterpretations of classic schools of art to tattoo imagery and a hands-on way to celebrate modern environmentalism, there’s plenty to choose from in 2016. Tear, Cut & Paste: The Art of Collage Art Gym Denver Through February 14,…
Like a beacon of art house film hope, Video One took up residence in a converted house on the corner of 6th Avenue and Downing about four years ago. Though its paint color is more muted than the bright purple-y hue the structure wore in its past life as consignment…
Montbello and Green Valley Ranch: Never been there? The far northeastern Denver districts out by the airport do seem to be worlds unto themselves, cut off from the rest of us by parcels of Aurora and Adams County, and that’s why Denver’s civic health club, Warm Cookies of the Revolution,…
A Denver-centric art exhibit opens tomorrow at the historic Crystal Palace in downtown Aspen, and it could be the coolest show ever in that mountain town. ALL THE FEELS will feel a little something like the “nostalgia of music that still tickles the hair on the back of your neck, the…
Focus. Squirrel! While I don’t “officially” have ADHD (I’ve been tested, and it was borderline), living inside my brain is a source of constant distraction. My friends have noticed this on hikes, where every bit of minutia — the way the light hits a stone, and “what kind of bug…
When CORE New Art Space formed 35 years ago, Denver’s art scene looked very different — artists found that in banding together and creating a cooperative environment, they could thrive. This Thursday, December 31, the gallery celebrates three and a half decades of surviving the city — a tale of a…
As I look back at what has changed in Denver’s art scene over the past year, I feel that first I need to pause and fondly recall two key players who are no longer with us, each of whom led long and illustrious lives that enriched the Mile High City…
This list involves a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. The artists who ignore the gallery and take to the streets to paint their murals are among the most hard-working in the city. Narrowing it down to ten is a near impossible task, but subjectively, we have chosen our favorite…
What got people talking in 2015? On Westword’s arts blog, the hottest topics spanned everything from inner city woes and ugly buildings to the most Colorado-iffic ways of escaping both. Without fanfare, here are our ten most-read arts blogs of 2015. 10) Film on the Rocks 2015 Schedule Announced “Outdoor…
