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Over 30 years, Rule Gallery has proven to be a survivor
Rule has proven to be the exception. The Denver art gallery has lasted a considerable three decades in a business that can be a lot of fun to be in but not so easy to profit from. Rule Gallery has...
View ArticleImpressive collection at CSU museum helped inspire expansion
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post University art museums tend to be peculiar attractions, with collections built not through the careful choices of curators, but with the random gifts of...
View ArticleDenver-area arts, culture generated $1.8 billion in 2015, but saw audiences...
Metro Denver’s cultural scene generated $1.8 billion in spending last year, slightly less than in 2013 as organizations coped with a 9 percent drop in paid attendance and invested less money upgrading...
View ArticleJeffco nonprofit wants people to appreciate public open spaces by painting them
Linda Hamilton doesn’t need much time to reproduce a beautiful view on her canvas along the Clear Creek Trail in Golden. Hamilton and her husband, Don, often find a good spot in a park or on a trail...
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Colorado Ballet opens 56th season with “Swan Lake” this weekend
Provided by Colorado BalletColorado Ballet’s 56th season opens with “Swan Lake,” which runs Oct. 7-23 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. To kick off its 56th season, Colorado Ballet will perform the...
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How many really know the story of Denver’s Daddy Bruce Randolph? New...
The Rev. Ron Wooding has a fail-safe way to identify who really is from Denver when he meets them. “If someone says they’re from Denver and they don’t know Daddy Bruce, they’re not really from Denver,”...
View ArticleAsk the Editor: Who’s the art critic?
Related ArticlesSeptember 22, 2016 Ask the Editor: What happened to the police blotter? September 7, 2016 Ask the Editor: What’s the game plan for The Denver Post Denver Post editor-in-chief Lee Ann...
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Denver artists’ shows look at flowers, and memory and time
Ana Maria Hernando and Trine Bumiller are two of Denver’s most prominent and prolific artists, and each has a quirky way of looking at nature. They both paint flowers, though not in that colorful,...
View Article“Sleepy Hollow” finishes run at Miners Alley Children’s Theatre this weekend
Spooky and whimsical stage shows are not hard to find this time of year, from the Aurora Fox’s season-opening “Dracula” (through Nov. 6; intended for mature audiences) to Vintage Theatre’s production...
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Dinah Worman named featured artist at National Western fundraising exhibit
Courtesy Coors Western Art Show“Community” by Dinah Worman. Award-winning landscape painter Dinah K. Worman has been named the 2017 featured artist of the 24th annual Coors Western Art Exhibit &...
View ArticleThis, art fans, is painting, and plenty of it, at the Denver Art Museum
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post “Glory of Venice” tells one of the most important lessons in art history through some of the most beguiling paintings ever made. The exhibit, featuring...
View ArticleNight at the Museums and more can’t-miss events for Denver Arts Week
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post Denver Arts Week is one of those events dreamed up by local tourism agencies to get people, near and far, excited about all of the cultural events that...
View ArticleKirkland Museum moving to new site – that is, the entire building is moving
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post The Kirkland Museum has 30,000 paintings and decorative objects in its collection, but its soul has always been painter Vance Kirkland’s studio, the...
View ArticleKirkland Museum studio move will cause Capitol Hill street closures
Sunday morning drivers will be greeted with an unusual sight: a 150-ton art studio on wheels, rolling down East 13th Avenue in Capitol Hill. The Kirkland Museum will be moving Vance Kirkland’s studio...
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Historic 150-ton Kirkland Museum trundles across downtown Denver as it moves...
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver PostDozens of people gather on East 13th Avenue to watch as workers with Mammoth Moving and Rigging begin to move the 106 year old Kirkland Art Studio from its location...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Historic 150-ton Kirkland Museum studio moves to new location
People gathered to watch as workers with Mammoth Moving and Rigging move the 106 year old Kirkland Art Studio from its location at 1311 Pearl street to a new location at 12th and Bannock on November 6,...
View ArticleAmy Schumer Instagrammed the heck out of Colorado this weekend
Massively famous comedian Amy Schumer performed at the Bellco Theatre in Denver Saturday, but she arrived early to partake in some Mile High fun that she documented on her Instagram page. Of course, it...
View ArticleDenver metro’s arts and cultural tax, 4B, passes easily, extends to 2030
A 0.1 percent sales tax for arts and culture in Denver’s seven-county metro area passed overwhelmingly, as supporters called it a “bright ray of sunshine voters could agree on,” according to...
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Onion cartoonist Ward Sutton sees inspiration in Colorado
By Bret Saunders, Special to The Denver Post For the past decade, graphic artist Ward Sutton has been living something of a creative double life. His skillful and irreverent work has appeared in...
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Tell your friends about this show at the Museum of Contemporary Art
By Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art shows work from across the globe, but its fundamental mission is to write the history of its own home town. The MCA’s...
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