An art obsession long before Instagram: Animals take the spotlight in massive...
Get your Instagram account ready for more than just blurry pictures of your cat: The Denver Art Museum is turning out its full collection to celebrate our fascination with animals through the ages....
View ArticleBenchmark Theatre launches a fantastical Fever Dream Festival
Benchmark Theatre, a professional theater company in the midst of its first season, is devoting a weekend to the magical, fantastical and creepy. Their mission is “theater with intention.” Will a fever...
View ArticleReview: Cirque du Soleil’s “Luzia” gets lost in Mexico
In the second act of “Luzia,” Cirque du Soleil’s new, Mexico-themed production, a nagging question stepped into view — literally. The Russian contortionist Aleksei Goloborodko was on stage, bending his...
View ArticleBrian Regan, savvy titan of stand-up, on recording his first Netflix special...
Brian Regan’s reputation as a clean, family-friendly comic has often obscured the staggering clout of his observational punches, which place him in the realm of Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan despite...
View ArticleGovernors break ground on U.S. Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday for an Olympic museum that will include a Hall of Fame and make mention of every athlete who has competed for the U.S. team. Attending the...
View ArticleSweden’s Museum of Failure celebrates products that flopped
By James Brook, The Associated Press HELSINGBORG, Sweden — Green Heinz ketchup? Fat-free Pringles? Colgate frozen lasagna? You don’t need to be an expert to know these products weren’t successful....
View ArticleDenver’s Yvie Oddly — “the future of drag” — on the art and politics of...
For Yvie Oddly, drag is art. Unequivocally. But not everyone gets that — whether it’s the audience or sometimes even the drag queens themselves. Frankly, sometimes the entire city of Denver doesn’t...
View ArticleMeet the owner of Colorado Fine Art Reproduction in Conifer
Business: Colorado Fine Art Reproduction Address: 12135 Cochise Circle, Conifer Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, by appointment on weekends Founded: 1982 in California, 2012 in Colorado Contact:...
View ArticleThree more Colorado communities receive state’s creative district designation
Manitou Springs, Steamboat Springs and Westwood, a Denver neighborhood, were certified as creative districts Tuesday, joining 18 others in the state-supported program to expand creative industries....
View ArticleColorado-centric mural adds vibrant color to the Square on 21st
It’s surreal to walk onto the 47-by-75-foot pink dahlia that now covers a formerly nondescript, block-long space in downtown Denver. Turning a quiet street into a summer-long celebration, The Square on...
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Spotlight on five zines at this year’s Denver Zine Fest
Creators and artists sat behind crammed tables, displaying work that ranged from heavy metal stories to a journal of scientific inquiry that is not at all scientific. There were 52 exhibitors at this...
View ArticleJuneteenth festival rooted in history, but modern in environmental efforts
On Saturday, a sea of easy-up canopies spanned the historic stretch of Welton Street in Five Points, one of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods. A culmination of smells hovered over the street as vendors and...
View ArticleBoulder Museum of Contemporary Art employees resign after alleging abuse,...
At least four employees of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art have resigned after alleging the museum’s executive director violated labor laws and was abusive toward staff. In a statement released...
View Article“Chasing Trane” celebrates the groundbreaking music of John Coltrane
Three stars. Unrated. 99 minutes. In “Chasing the Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary,” documentarian John Scheinfeld shows that the music of one of jazz’s most experimental saxophone players still...
View ArticleHow a new theater helped turn Silverthorne from a gas-stop town into a...
Theater folk are often used to working in less-than-ideal conditions, and most of them have a trove of anecdotes about dank dressing rooms, faulty lights, noisy plumbing and other indignities that,...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Glastonbury Festival 2017
The largest greenfield festival in the world, the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton near Glastonbury, England, is now a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts. The Somerset...
View ArticleDenver experimental art project explores a world without galleries or dealers
Best to start this story with the one thing that will make you pay attention: If you act soon, and do a little exploring, you can get work by some of Denver’s most respected artists at a fraction of...
View ArticleSeriesFest: Denver’s “Sundance of TV” evolves with digital shorts, late-night...
Despite the blurring of lines between television and film over the last few years — with impressive talent, ideas and production values moving freely between them — few festivals have sprung up to take...
View ArticlePHOTOS: International Buskerfest returns to Denver’s Union Station
The 2017 Union Station Buskerfest kicked off Friday evening. The event takes place outside Denver’s Union Station and will continue June 24 from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. The festival features street performers,...
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Change is in the air for annual Japanese festival and Sakura Square neighborhood
Dressed in full Japanese samurai armor on Saturday, Kurt Weinreich barely moves a step in Sakura Square before he’s stopped by a stranger. And then another stranger. And then another. “Can we take your...
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