At the Denver Art Museum, dancing on thin air
The Denver Art Museum’s “Summer of Dance” is a good example of the power that big cultural institutions have to bring meaning to our lives. And, also, their limits. Like everything at DAM, it’s a high...
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Public art gets temporary display during Prototype Festival on Denver’s 16th...
Colton Kostalnick, 6, from Golden grabs hold of the Peak1Six prototype by Shears Adkins Rockmore Architects. The Prototyping Festival takes place in downtown Denver along the 16th Street Mall on...
View ArticleMore than $800,000 up for grabs with new Arts in Society grants
Starting next month, Denver arts nonprofits can apply for individual grants of up $50,000 under a pilot program called Arts in Society, organizers announced this week. The program, which will hand out...
View ArticleDon’t Miss This: Chicano Music Festival this weekend
In the Art District on Santa Fe, folks at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center have already begun celebrating the 20th annual Chicano Music Festival this week, including screening Chicano...
View ArticleDon’t Miss This: Free yoga, hip-hop, ballet and more at Mile High Dance Festival
As it has for the past five years, nationally renowned Denver company Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will finish its International Summer Dance Institute with the day-long Mile High Dance Festival. The...
View ArticleRedline Gallery show examines drawings in their various materials, processes
“Drawing Never Dies” is the kind of exhibition title that also serves as a manifesto. There’s nothing subtle about its proclamation that the simple act of making lines and shapes is a crucial part of...
View ArticleLakewood to begin planning work on 40 West Arts Loop
Lakewood is kicking off planning work on an arts loop that will connect three of the city’s busiest parks with wayfinding signs, trail markings and public art installations. In partnership with the 40...
View ArticleIn mural exchange, Kosovo and Colorado artists paint in unity in Swansea
A stunning mural featuring a medley of cubes and symbols, painted on a backdrop of red and blue, now graces the Swansea Recreation Center, on the wall next to the swimming pool. It’s more than a...
View ArticleIt’s August; go out and get some culture, Colorado
August is the last, best hope to get the most out of Colorado’s outdoor cultural offerings, and 2016 is a better year than most. There’s plenty to choose from, in the Front Range and points west, and...
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Denver’s Taste of Ethiopia will have a richer flavor this year
Colorado’s Taste of Ethiopia will be more flavorful — both in food and culture — than its previous three celebrations. The fourth annual festival is set for 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Parkfield...
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“Colorado Women in Abstraction” cuts across history
“Colorado Women in Abstraction” sets the bar high at the front door of the Center for Visual Art. There are 32 artists in the show, but the first ones you encounter are legends. There are works from...
View ArticlePlein air painting took Joellyn Duesberry — and her viewers — on grand...
Joellyn Duesberry’s landscape paintings provided a unique window into the natural world. Her oil works highlighted places where few people might travel and points of view that some would never get the...
View ArticleSanta Fe’s week of Native American art draws thousands
SANTA FE, N.M. — A series of premiere Native American art and antiquities markets packed into a single week in Santa Fe are expected to attract tens of thousands of people to the New Mexico capital....
View ArticleDon’t Miss This: Creativity abound at 2nd annual Breckenridge International...
Friday-Sunday. The second annual Breckenridge International Festival of Arts is sure to be a visual feast, featuring everything from acrobats climbing a rotating ladder to stilt-walkers wearing...
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New Air Force Academy building an architectural marvel
The new Center for Character & Leadership Development is one of the most important pieces of architecture to go up in Colorado — perhaps, in the entire West — in decades. That’s bold praise, but...
View ArticleWorldwide Festival revolves around Denver this weekend
The world comes to Colorado this weekend courtesy of Denver’s 12 sister cities from across the globe. The highlight is Sunday’s Worldwide Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tivoli Student Union on...
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Since 1970, John Madden’s love of art has shaped the south metro area
There is no better tour guide for the Madden Museum of Art in Greenwood Village than co-founder, John Madden. The real estate developer and his late wife, Marjorie, pieced together the extensive...
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River North gallery celebrates 25 years with “Pattern Makers” show
Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver PostAnnalee Schorr paints on both canvas and acrylic for the show Pattern Makers” at the Pattern Shop Studio in RiNo. A lot of people lay claim to being urban...
View ArticleColorado takes top spots in new NEA arts-engagement study
Coloradans watch movies, visit art galleries, see plays and read books more than almost any other state in the U.S., according to a wide-ranging study released Tuesday from the National Endowment for...
View ArticleBest Bet: Mountain music served up in Aspen, Vail Labor Day weekend
The biggest music event in the high country this weekend is undoubtedly the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience, featuring sets from Train (Sept. 2), the Killers and Thievery Corporation (Sept. 3)...
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