European art scene began with Neanderthals
NEW YORK — From the murky depths of Spanish caves comes a surprising insight: Neanderthals created art. That’s been proposed before, but experts say two new studies finally give convincing evidence...
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An AR-15 composed of rose petals anchors a mural on a Five Points restaurant...
An AR-15 adorns the side of Bella Vista Mexican Restaurant at the edge of Five Points in Denver. Composed of pink and red painted rose petals, the weapon anchors both the mural and a persistent public...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Senior Needles and Threads group at Creek Retirement Community
Senior women gather for knitting and sewing at Creek Retirement Community on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in Centennial, Colorado. Friends meet for an hour every week to sew blankets and knit sweater,...
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These are the voices you will be hearing in the Denver airport “Train Call”...
Denver Post compositeSports announcer Alan Roach and 9News anchor Kim Christiansen Most of the 75,000 people who voted for the new voice of Denver International Airport were fine with keeping some...
View ArticlePortugal The Man is playing a free 120-person show at MCA Denver
Portland-based alt-rock outfit Portugal The Man treated Denver to two different, back-to-back looks at the band last summer. It played a show at Red Rocks, but only after it headlined the Bluebird...
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Kirkland Museum’s $22 million new home set to sparkle in Golden Triangle
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art’s $22 million new home, which opens March 10 in the Golden Triangle, is set to ratchet up the cultural magnetism of the evolving neighborhood just south...
View ArticleFed’s loss is Denver’s gain: Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s new curator...
Even in Ashland, Ore., nearly 3,000 miles from the political fires in Washington, D.C., Gabriela Chavarria could feel the heat. “We didn’t have the scientific freedom (to do our jobs),” Chavarria said,...
View ArticleRinaldi: Cleon Peterson show at MCA can be hard to look at, but it forces us...
Artist Cleon Peterson’s work is, in many ways, grisly. Again and again in his current show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, he depicts black humanoid figures doing brutal, violent things to white...
View ArticleArts and culture made more money in Colorado in 2015 than mining or the...
See a show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in 2015? Purchase a painting at a local art fair? How about buy a book from a Colorado author or visit a local museum? If you answered yes to any of these...
View ArticleAt That’s What She Said in Denver, men will read women’s stories to challenge...
Jessica Dolby planned to write a story, about her experience with catcalling and the shame, humiliation and unsafe feeling that follows it. She was excited. Actually, she was thrilled. She sat down to...
View ArticleThe huge music festival coming to Denver’s Overland Park has a name and date
It’s been months since music festival producer Superfly first announced its intention to throw a music-and-culture festival in Denver’s Overland Park Golf Course. On Thursday, the producer revealed two...
View ArticleNathaniel Rateliff’s new album almost didn’t happen at all
Nathaniel Rateliff’s time is no longer his own. Since the Denver-based singer-songwriter started performing with his spirited soul band, The Night Sweats, he and the band have played some 350 concerts...
View ArticleIkea chairs were turned into art for the latest Arvada Center exhibit, and...
The Arvada Center’s “in SITu” is a surprisingly entertaining exhibit with a terrifically funny name. The title is a play on the art lingo term “in situ,” which is derived from Latin and used to refer...
View ArticleKirkland Museum celebrates its grand opening with ribbon-cutting ceremony
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art celebrated the grand opening of its new building Saturday, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Hugh Grant, the museum’s founding director and curator, cut...
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“Dead Sea Scrolls” exhibit in Denver illuminates the mysterious origins of...
Deep inside the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, past layers of security card-activated doors and stoic guards, Tania Treiger compares color photographs of a restored Dead Sea Scroll to the...
View ArticleDave Chappelle announces surprise Denver shows March 16
Talk about last minute. Just before 6:30 on Thursday night, Live Nation announced comic Dave Chappelle will perform two shows at the Summit Music Hall on Friday, March 16. Yes, that’s 24 hours notice....
View Article6 (mostly free) interactive art lectures in Denver that deserve your attention
Of course, art galleries are a place for looking. But lately, they’ve become a place for listening, too, as the region’s best showplaces for painting, sculpture and other creative forms have upped...
View ArticleCulture Club, B-52s announce Denver-area concert
Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, the grassy music oasis among the business parks and suburban centers, is turning into a time machine this summer. The venue has already locked down Lost ’80s Live and I...
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He was “finally” attempting his ambitious new Cirque du Soleil act in Tampa....
An experienced Cirque du Soleil acrobat performing an intricate aerial routine for the first time onstage plummeted to his death in front of a live audience in Tampa on Saturday night. The company...
View ArticleHarnessing the power of #MeToo, History Colorado creates first-ever Women’s...
Nobody called it #MeToo in Anne Evans’ day, but her fearless, pioneering spirit would have fit right in with that digital media-driven, social-justice movement. As the daughter of Colorado territorial...
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