Denver’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 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 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 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 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 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...
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Frida 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 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 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 ArticleSome 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...
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