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The artists in (Residency): Process to Consumption talk creative process

For its show, (Residency): Process to Consumption, the city's arts arm, Create Denver, handed out empty four-foot-by-four-foot wooden boxes to a group of selected artists. They were asked to use the back as a canvas and the inside to build something. Some collaborated; others created alone. Tonight, the show opens...
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A who’s-who of women’s-identity artists at the Myhren Gallery

Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would...
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Best Historic Solo

In Thin Air: The Art of Phyllis Hutchinson MontroseKirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has spent the past several years rediscovering forgotten or all-but-forgotten Colorado artists who were once prominent and giving them shows. But he did something different with In Thin Air: The Art of Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose. Since the artist had never been prominent, Grant became the one to discover her. A […]
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Root Down at DIA introduces new composting system

Denver International Airport already has a composting program that it started last year as an efficient way to get rid of waste in the terminal. Now it's partnering with one of the DIA restaurants, Root Down, to bring composting to the concourses. See also: Shoni Jones, exec chef of Root...
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Food trending: Five favorite spaetzle dishes

I was around seven or eight when I first ate späetzle in the small, tidy kitchen of my grandmother's house in Kansas City. She was fiercely German, taught sign language in German and English, and she had shelves of vintage German cookbooks, all of which had lots of cabbage recipes,...
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Best Sunday Fun Day Brunch

Squeaky BeanThe ultimate Sunday brunch begins and ends with a Bloody Mary. It’s vital, too, that there’s something on the board for the egghead, the French-toast fanatic, the potato junkie and the granola-leaning earth muffin. Under chef Theo Adley, the Squeaky Bean’s kitchen serves all that and more, but because chief bean-baller Johnny Ballen has a […]
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Chuck Forsman goes solo at the DAM and Robischon

Although it gets plenty of attention for blockbusters like Modern Masters, the Denver Art Museum always has a raft of smaller shows on display as well. Right now there are nearly twenty, including Re Branded: Polish Posters for American Westerns; All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer; and Fracture:...
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A Lie of the Mind mines family secrets at the Bug

Thundery weather and a voice in the darkness: This is how A Lie of the Mind begins. Jake is on the phone telling his brother Frankie that he's killed his wife. Previously, he'd only hurt Beth, but this time it's different. Over his brother's protests, Frankie insists on visiting his...