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His artwork is typically thrown away. Now people raised $590K to put it on...
PARKER — He paints exquisite mountain panoramas rich in detail, with hundreds of tiny trees painstakingly rendered. Then the images that took him weeks to create are printed on cheap paper and...
View ArticleDenver Art Museum extends Dior exhibit for two more weeks
By Kurt Sevits, Denver7 Fans of couture now have some more time to check out the Dior fashion exhibit currently on display at the Denver Art Museum. The museum announced Thursday that it extended the...
View ArticleColorado Ballet’s colorful “The Wizard of Oz” hopes to take Denver by storm
Turns out, “The Wizard of Oz” truly is great and powerful — and benevolent to the Colorado Ballet. The company’s new production of the classic tale took on historic proportions before it even opened....
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A Colorado man has been handcrafting the Grammy statues that go to your...
John Billings remembers the moment he realized just how significant his life’s work is. Billings, who has been handcrafting the Grammy awards for the last four decades, watched as Bob Dylan strode on...
View ArticleOpera will meet horror in 2020 with Colorado production of “The Shining”
Opera Colorado is bursting with good news. The nonprofit this week announced expanded seasons for its next two years at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, including productions of Rossini’s “The Barber of...
View ArticleArt in Boulder that’s so good you can feel it. Seriously, you can touch,...
Viewing art in a gallery can be like visiting a friend in prison. You can get so close, see him and hear him, even feel the vibrations of his voice. But you can’t touch him, thanks to that thick layer...
View ArticleHere’s what you can see (and drink) at History Colorado’s long-awaited “Beer...
History Colorado Center will debut “Beer Here! Brewing the New West” on May 18 to coincide with American Craft Beer Week, museum officials announced Wednesday. The long-awaited exhibition — teased by...
View ArticleA homecoming, a debut and a revelation for Jordan Casteel at Denver Art Museum
Elijah is pink and Ato is gold. Jiréh is a minty green and Galen a deep emerald. Fallou’s brother, whose name we don’t learn in Jordan Casteel’s set of paintings now at the Denver Art Museum, is a...
View ArticleWorld’s most comprehensive traveling incarnation of Leonardo da Vinci’s work...
Is there anything left to learn about Leonardo da Vinci? The Italian Renaissance master, who has been dead for 500 years, is one of the most celebrated and studied figures in human history. And...
View ArticleDenver’s Month of Photography features more than 100 exhibits that stretch...
MoP is massive. There’s no other way to put it. Denver’s Month of Photography spans dozens of museums, galleries, frame shops, coffee houses and studios. It includes more than 120 exhibits, events,...
View ArticleThese women helped build Colorado. Now, we trace their vital contributions.
Margaret “Molly” Brown is arguably Colorado’s best-known historical figure, from her role as a Titanic survivor to her very real work in building the Mile High City’s social infrastructure in the early...
View Article“Horror” and “immersive” are two words you might not want to hear together....
If opera is going to get better in Denver, it has to get bigger. There have to be more companies of different sizes and with distinct missions producing work that gives audiences richer ways to enjoy...
View ArticleWhat do royalty, dogs, God and the sea have in common? Denver Art Museum’s...
Historians like to describe the last two centuries of painting as less of an act and more of a reaction. Impressionism, modernism, surrealism, the whole of abstraction — they’re all a rejection and...
View ArticleThere’s a brawl going on in the photography world, and this Denver exhibit...
Denver’s Month of Photography offers a ringside seat to one of the best art brawls of the 21st century: the idea that a photo ought to capture a picture of something real and true versus the idea that...
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Appreciation: Brit Withey, who died in car crash, was passionate about film
James Dimagiba, provided by the Denver Film FestivalBrit Withey died March 31 in a single-car accident. As news of Brit Withey’s death spread through the international film community early last week,...
View ArticleMeow Wolf ride at Elitch Gardens: Trippy new Kaleidoscape experience is a...
Anyone familiar with the art punks-turned-entrepreneurs at Meow Wolf know that Kaleidoscape was always going to be weird. The amusement-park ride, which opens to the public at Elitch Gardens on April...
View ArticleDiNK 2019: Denver’s indie comics expo puts trailblazers in perspective
Ralph Bakshi is quite certain he attended the first comic con ever held, more than a half-century ago in his hometown of New York City. “It was back in the early ’60s in one giant room in this hotel,...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Branches woven together at Denver Botanic Gardens create elaborate...
Even by Denver Botanic Gardens standards, “Stickwork” is elaborate. The site-specific sculpture, which is being constructed at the Chatfield Farms location in Littleton for an April 27 opening, follows...
View ArticleHow corporate backing can help — and hurt — public art as seen in Republic...
The lobby at Republic Plaza can be one of the best spots to see art in Denver. The spaces are vast and the ceilings high, making it a swell host for paintings and sculpture of any size. No doubt,...
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Here’s when you can get tickets to Denver Art Museum’s big Monet exhibition
Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge,” 1899. (Provided by Princeton University Art Museum) We already knew the Denver Art Museum’s Monet exhibition was going to be big, having billed itself...
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