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Best Bet: Celebrating a one-of-a-kind artist, teacher
Provided photoA self-portrait of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design founder Philip J. Steele, whose work will be show in a new exhibition starting Sept. 7. Phillip J. Steele is one of those...
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Fashion revolution: Denver Art Museum exhibit details how Japanese designers...
By Suzanne S. Brown, Special to The Denver Post One of first things Florence Müller’s did after being named fashion curator at the Denver Art Museum just over a year ago was what any fashion lover...
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Meet the woman who curates Denver Art Museum’s fashion and textile collections
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver PostFlorence Muller is the curator of textile art and fashion at the Denver Art Museum. Florence Müller’s first love wasn’t fashion, but art. As a child growing up...
View ArticleDon’t miss this: Arvada Center marks 40 years
Thursday. As one of the metro area’s most consistently visible, intelligently booked cultural venues, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities has a lot to be proud of over its four-decade...
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With a grand party, Denver reopens its marvelous McNichols Building in Civic...
Andy Cross, The Denver PostNewly renovated McNichols Civic Center building includes a redesigned complete with an amphitheater style entrance with updated handicapped ramp September 07, 2016. Andy...
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The North-South divide in American creativity
By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Urbanist Richard Florida popularized the term “creative class,” describing the millions of workers in fields such as the arts, sciences and technology whose...
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What the new CEO of the Denver Center for Performing Arts is up against
As Janice Sinden begins her tenure as president and CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, she faces unprecedented challenges amid record revenue and attendance gains at the...
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Colorado Symphony gets new music director as season opens
Provided by Colorado Symphony OrchestraBrett Mitchell Nothing underscores the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s current approach to the business of making music more clearly than the appointment of Brett...
View ArticleGraffiti artists spiff up RiNo during Crush festival
Through Sept. 18. As hot as Denver’s River North Art District has become for real estate, it’s still wildly inconsistent (and occasionally hideous) in terms of basic aesthetics like architecture and...
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Famed Colorado Ballet dancer Maria Mosina to retire after 2016-2017 season
AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver PostMaria Mosina performs during rehearsal for “La Sylphide” on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. After celebrating two decades as a principal dancer for Colorado Ballet, famed...
View ArticleAurora dedicates two-block-long mural leading to Stanley Marketplace
Aurora is now home to one of the largest murals in Colorado — a two-block-long artistic romp that provides a colorful path to the Stanley Marketplace gates. The city of Aurora hosted a dedication for...
View ArticleDowntown Aurora Visual Arts stretches out into larger space, readies for...
One week before the opening of the year’s fourth Downtown Aurora Visual Art exhibition, students were bustling around their brand new media room inside the art education nonprofit on East Colfax,...
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A day in the life of Denver comic Josh Blue: parenting, pot and stage time
Before the success of The Grawlix troupe or Denver-born comic/actor T.J. Miller, Josh Blue was repping the Mile High City on national comedy stages. The 37-year-old comedian with cerebral palsy has...
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Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland sends an inspiring message to girls of...
American dancer Misty Copeland knows about overcoming the odds and pushing through adversity to achieve a dream. As the first African American female to be appointed as Principal Dancer with the...
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“Supernova” celebrates digital animation this weekend in downtown Denver
It’s hard to imagine public art being anymore public than “Supernova,” the festival of digital animation hitting Denver this weekend. The event uses the massive, LED screens attached to large...
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Theater review: “Glass Menagerie” at Ricketson
Adams Visual CommunicationsKathleen McCall, Aubrey Deeker, and Amelia Pedlow in “The Glass Menagerie” at Ricketson. From the moment Aubrey Deeker appears on the fire escape of a St. Louis apartment,...
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“Unclassified Site Museum” a curious look underground at our past
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post “Unclassified Site Museum” is a curious bit of art that comes along at a crucial time in Denver’s evolution. In this era of record-breaking infill, as we...
View ArticleVideo: RiNo Art District murals stampede onto Denver’s urban walls
The seventh annual Colorado Crush festival, which united more than 30 artists from in and outside Colorado for a week of furious mural-paining, wrapped up in the River North neighborhood on Sept. 18....
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Artists add color to Elyria-Swansea viaduct below Interstate 70
On a weather beaten strip of industrial highway, Gamma “Gamma Gallery” Acosta nimbly climbs a ladder with a smartphone in one hand and a spray paint can in the other. The air reeks of dog food from the...
View ArticleDenver Art Museum benefactor Frederic Hamilton dies at 89
Frederic C. Hamilton, who left a legendary trail of business and philanthropy reflected by the shining Denver Art Museum building that bears his name, died Friday following a brief illness just days...
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