Some yokai (Japanese ghosts) want to teach you about redlining and...
Halloween may have ended, but this fall, the Japanese Arts Network is inviting yokai (Japanese ghosts) to some of Denver’s most famous haunts. “Zotto,” as their new show is called, is billed as a...
View ArticleGeorge Floyd, gentrification murals vandalized in Denver ahead of 2020 election
Murals that depict social justice and political themes have been defaced or painted over in Denver in recent days, and at least one artist thinks the timing is anything but coincidental. “It’s the...
View ArticleA Denver auction recently sold so much art, it broke multiple records
When it comes to Western art auctions, Denver lacks the equivalent of a Sotheby’s or Christie’s — globally renowned auction houses that are synonymous with mainstream fine art and wealthy buyers. But...
View ArticleFrida Kahlo’s starpower gets even bigger with “Mexican Modernism” at Denver...
Editor’s note: Last week, due to government coronavirus restrictions, the Denver Art Museum was forced to limit capacity to the “Mexican Modernism” exhibition, which runs through Jan. 24. Those with...
View ArticleThis year, Mizel Center’s annual Jewish culture festival is tackling social...
This year’s 13th annual celebration of Jewish culture at the JCC Mizel Arts & Culture Center (otherwise known as JAAMM Fest) again features the art, authors, movies and music from which the event...
View ArticleKilling Still: With an exhibition of his final works, Clyfford Still Museum...
“The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland” is a heartfelt effort by the late artist’s namesake museum to seal the deal on his lifelong legacy, to demonstrate, with significant evidence, that Still...
View ArticleOscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu debuts powerful VR experience at Stanley...
If “Carne y Arena” was a film, it would be a short, harrowing one. The touring virtual-reality exhibition, which debuts at Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace Oct. 23-Jan. 30, 2021, is a 20-minute work of...
View ArticleThese are definitely not normal Denver haunted houses. Then again, 2020 isn’t...
Real-world fears can’t help but intrude on this year’s Halloween revelry. But for some out-of-work or idled Denver artists, confronting fear is their best chance at finding paid gigs, developing their...
View ArticleColorado theater in the time of Black Lives Matter: A new reckoning, in five...
Act I. We may have stopped going to theaters, but theater didn’t stop. In the face of COVID-19, shows went on, and did so in unexpected places: on golf courses, in church courtyards, online. They got...
View ArticleDenver’s Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera show will test limits of patience and...
Excitement bubbled over when Denver Art Museum announced its latest foray into big-ticket exhibitions last year. “Let’s plan a girls day!” wrote Facebook user Andrea Stanley in November 2019 — one of...
View ArticleSick of wearing a mask all the time? OK, but what if was really awesome?
The new “Mask” exhibition at the Vicki Myrhen Gallery suggests that we all have a choice in how we get through the current pandemic that is upending our lives: We can endure it or we can indulge in it....
View ArticleA Zoom play, but make it political: Curious Theatre jumps into the digital...
“It’s just so good to see them,” was the reaction to the early minutes of Curious Theatre Company’s “Hillary and Clinton.” No, we’re not talking about the wife and husband at the heart of Lucas Hnath’s...
View ArticleWhat’s up with the massive, glowing polyhedron near downtown Denver?
Clark Richert has long had a way of using art to model complex ideas about math and science. He’s been working out methods for employing line and color to interpret rich concepts of geometry and...
View ArticleYou could win original art for 50 cents at The Dairy Block’s new Art Claw...
The global pandemic has prompted many of us to treat public interactions as grab-and-go challenges. Get in, get what you need, and get out as fast as you possibly can. But it’s also spurred Thadeaous...
View ArticleDenver Botanic Garden’s sprawling new Freyer-Newman Center turns the gardens...
The Denver Botanic Gardens has spent more than $116 million revamping itself over the past decade. There’s a new science pyramid, gift shop and welcome center, a children’s garden, an outdoor bistro, a...
View ArticleJohn Lithgow has a new book of Trump-era rhymes. See him talk “Trumpty...
If you love Kendrick Lamar or swoon to Cole Porter (or dig both; and why not?), you are surely a connoisseur of rhyme. John Lithgow gets it. The multi-award-winning actor has penned his second book of...
View ArticleA Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera exhibition is coming to Denver next month. Here’s...
Attention, art lovers: Be sure to mark your calendars for Oct. 12 and Nov. 23. Those dates are when the first and second waves of tickets to the hotly anticipated “Mexican Modernism” exhibition at the...
View ArticleA new Ruth Bader Ginsburg mural popped up in downtown Denver this weekend
Menace and Resa, two New York City street artists, were in Denver for the annual Crush Walls festival when word came on Friday that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. “When RBG passed...
View ArticleWildfires create mass destruction and mass regeneration. Denver art exhibit...
In days like these, when the sun glows an alarming orange, and air is choked with smoke and ash that burns your eyes and prickles your throat, it’s hard to reconcile what Anna Kaye’s drawings have...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Peek inside this renowned Hollywood collector’s customized Denver home
Joe Maddalena knows a good thing when he sees it. And he likes what he sees in Denver. As CEO and founder of Profiles in History — the Los Angeles company that bills itself as the world’s largest...
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