Fresh from the movie news wire comes the announcement that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the third entry to Chris Nolan’s gritty Batman series, inexplicably titled The Dark Knight Rises (probably because these movies make everyone involved a lot of dough). The character was introduced in the first official…
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s the case, everyone involved in coming up with the cover image for Westword’s recent feature on local type and design maestro Rick Griffith — and the list includes photographer Eric Magnussen, Westword Art Director Jay Vollmar and Griffith…
It’s about time. Yesterday, the illustrious Emilio Estevez announced that he and his father, Martin Sheen, are working on a joint memoir; it’s called Along the Way, and they’re looking to release it on Father’s Day 2012. Now, we don’t necessarily care all that much about Martin Sheen, but we’ve…
Colorado has a rich history in ceramics going back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but it was in the period from the 1950s to the 1990s that the ceramics scene here really hit its stride, with masters of the medium Nan and Jim McKinnell, Betty Woodman and…
Painter Jenny Morgan, a Salt Lake native with a Denver history, is now based in New York City, but her ties to the region, where she attended the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, are strong. Morgan came up through the gallery ranks here, from the co-ops to her…
Hal Gould started curating photo shows back in 1963 when he was the director of exhibitions for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Then, in 1979, he opened Camera Obscura Gallery near the corner of Bannock Street and 13th Avenue, which became the first and one of the only photo-specialists ever…
Critics are praising Ryan Gosling’s latest film, Blue Valentine, for bringing all the soul-crushing elements of a break-up onto the big screen. It’s a good movie, if not a feel-good movie. Gosling’s counterpart in the movie is Michelle Williams, the latest actress to star opposite the 30-year-old squinting star. Here…
This week, Mile Highs and Lows reviewed a hand-blown glass pipe from Heady Glass in Englewood. Aside from puffing on the pipe, I also spent some time hanging out with resident glass artists Ben “Spice” Crowley as he put the finishing touches on a custom hash oil bubbler, talking about…
By some scientific estimates, over half the internet consists of pornography. That statistic is actually made up, but there’s no doubt that there is a mind-boggling amount of porn out there — so much of it, in fact, that there is a universal rule for it: “Rule 34: If it…
The Flying O.H.N.O. Twins do a lot of things, but it’s also kind of hard to explain exactly what they do. Since the end of September, Donald Fodness and Alvin Gregorio’s (they’re the twins, you know) installation Shut Your Face Off has been intriguing and mildly confusing people at the…
Wow. That was fascinating. You know, we’ve heard a lot of interesting things in our lives, but that thing you just said? That was by far the most interesting. Just to let you know how awesome you are, and because it’s Wednesday, the day that we bring you the best…
We all know fantasy is better than reality, because in reality you have to do stuff you don’t want to do, and you have to face the fact that there will be some things you’ll just never be good at, either for lack of time to learn or lack of…
Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado — a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But Chisman wasn’t just a great artist. He was also a great arts advocate, with his efforts…
The continuing appeal of abstraction some hundred years after it was developed in France by the gods of art history — Picasso, Matisse, Braque and on and on — is both astounding and predictable. Astounding because, like hip-hop, it seems to be an inexhaustible source for newness; predictable because arrangements…
This I know is true: Comic books aren’t easy. Banish the idea that they are from your minds immediately before you proceed. Sure, artists like Noah Van Sciver (creator of Westword’s weekly 4 Questions strip) make it look easy, but a comic artist is kind of like a god-figure who…
After more than six months of residency at the Denver Art Museum and its accompanying marketing blitz, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs closed yesterday to head to its next destination in St. Paul, Minnesota, where it opens in February. Along with it, the 26-foot-tall statue of Anubis,…
There’s no time like the present. It’s time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:…
KIROTV in Lynwood, Washington recently reported a story about a real-life superhero named Phoenix Jones who stopped a car theft by chasing the man down the street. Weird, but not unheard of in this post-Kick-Ass world. In fact, there is an entire website devoted to these real world superheroes –…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has been trying to get on Facebook for over a year. Due to issues with the social networking site’s indemnity clause — which says Facebook is not responsible for one user suing another — Suthers last April ordered all state agencies and institutions to take…
Since it finally feels like winter, it seems appropriate to begin throwing “official” holiday parties. Consider the Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party the first one of the new year, going down tonight at the Mercury Cafe. $5 gets you in the door for a night of bands, booze and jug music,…
We’ve all heard that eyes are the “windows to the soul,” which is just one of the many things that makes it so unsettling when those eyes are replaced by fucking mouths. Indeed, in this strange, often disturbing internetz world, Mouth Eyes, in spite of its seeming innocuousness, is one…
Quietly, in December, the Kirkland Museum opened a new installment of its ongoing Colorado art survey, a range of 51 art and decorative works, most of them culled from the museum’s collection and many on view for the first time. The show’s particular focus is on works by past members…
