Denver street art tours turn neighborhoods into open-air galleries ripe for...
A 10-foot-tall cartoon mural of a doofy man walking an awkward fish on a leash hangs over a mass of morning-after millennials crowding into Crema. Painted by Denver’s Michael Graves, the mural on the...
View Article“The Book of Mormon” in Denver: How to nab cheap tickets in the DCPA lottery...
Ready to party like it’s 2011? That’s when we learned that Denver would be the first-ever city to host the national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” the now-enshrined Broadway hit from “South Park”...
View ArticleDenver Center for the Performing Arts debuts first-ever capital campaign with...
Officials at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts are hoping to tap private and corporate dollars to close the gap in a $36 million capital campaign they unveiled Tuesday — the first in the...
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A new conspiracy? Why is artwork flying off the walls at Denver International...
Artwork is disappearing from Denver International Airport. But don’t worry. It’s nothing mysterious — or worse — nefarious. The artwork is going into storage as part of a $500,000 remove and store...
View Article8 must-see fine arts offerings this summer, from Santa Fe to Steamboat
Colorado’s summer art scene plays by its own rules and runs on its own schedule. Things tend to heat up after Independence Day when the evenings are warmer and the tourists turn out in big numbers....
View ArticlePhotos: Women with Hattitude at the Seawell Ballroom for the Women’s Voices...
Best way to describe Women with Hattitude? Let’s just say it’s like the Kentucky Derby, Ascot and an Easter parade rolled into one. Everyone — and I do mean every single one — of the 650 who gathered...
View ArticleMore than 50 artists remember landmark Women’s March with “Pink Progression”...
The exhibit “Pink Progression” is more colorful than its name implies. Yes, there is lots (and lots) of pink on the walls, with nearly all of the artists using it as a language to talk about their...
View ArticleWhy the Fourth of July? And 11 other things you’ve always wondered about the...
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival is one of the biggest annual events on the Front Range cultural calendar, with as many as 350,000 people showing up on the streets of Cherry Creek North each year to...
View ArticleCherry Creek Arts Festival shows off local talent through Emerging Artist...
For artist Keith Oelschlanger, the scenes depicted in his paintings aren’t simply Denver landmarks — they’re personal time stamps, reminders of times gone by. “Pig N’ Whistle” marks Oelschlanger’s...
View ArticleYou can get an up-close and air-conditioned look at outdoor murals in the...
The Arvada Center’s “In Sight On Site: Murals” is a big, juicy piece of late-summer bubble gum, a bang-up, heat-beater of an art show where the chewy thrills come in bright colors and eye-popping...
View ArticleCritters on canvas: Denver-area artists create long-lasting memories of...
Photographs are a great way to capture images of your dog or cat, horse or bird. But those smartphone snaps don’t get to the essence of your prized pet the way a painted portrait does. That is why...
View Article“Made in Colorado” exhibit shows how some things are changing — and how some...
The exhibit, “Made in Colorado” starts off with a curious, and somewhat ominous, video by artist Tobias Fike. “When I’m Gone” depicts a man, dressed in a hooded, white body suit, painting himself...
View ArticleArt review: Denver exhibit puts faces to women who died from botched...
Quirky and perky, with a face full of determination, it’s hard not to get a quick crush on Vivian Grant the way that Daisy Patton paints her, circa 1960, in a series of women’s portraits on display at...
View ArticleCherry Creek residents unhappy with planning leading up to mutlti-day...
Residents in Cherry Creek aren’t happy to learn about a festival that will shut down their residential street and they feel like they were the last to know. “Events like this are terrific, this is just...
View ArticleMeow Wolf spending big on local artists ahead of Denver installation’s 2020...
Meow Wolf, the for-profit artist collective that runs a wildly popular immersive installation in Santa Fe, is rapidly expanding across the country with projects in various cities, including its planned...
View ArticleHigh Plains Comedy Fest, Kathy Griffin and more Colorado comedy you need to...
This is the big one, folks. While Denver can lay claim year-round to having one of the country’s most fertile stand-up scenes, August is the month where everything blooms. That’s largely due to the...
View ArticleYo-Yo Ma at Red Rocks review: One man and one cello make for historic night
Even at Red Rocks, a show business landmark where spectacle is an everyday occurrence, an appearance by classical musician Yo-Yo Ma was an extraordinary event. Picture it — if you weren’t one of the...
View Article“Year of the Dog” exhibit in Colorado Springs explores the humanity of man’s...
Chanel isn’t what you’d call a show dog. She’s got three legs, a fat neck and ears that sit too high on her head. Her coat alternates between dull gray and flat brown and her belly bears a sagging set...
View ArticleDenver Art Museum’s rare Monet exhibit expected to be economic hit for city
The world produced only so many da Vincis, Picassos and van Goghs — artists whose work is so indelible they have single-name recognition decades, even centuries after their deaths. French...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Book enthusiasts get literary-themed tattoos at the Denver Public...
Certified Tattoo Studios partnered with the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation to offer library- and literary-themed tattoos at the Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales Branch Library on Sunday to raise...
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