Clyfford Still temporarily closes, Colorado Symphony adds new Red Rocks shows...
Clyfford Still temporarily closes, bids farewell to director Denver’s internationally renowned Clyfford Still Museum, which focuses on the works of that abstract expressionist, will temporarily shutter...
View ArticleA playful game of hide-and-seek returns to Denver for 2020 with digital twist
World Art Drop Day, the global scavenger hunt for new, original works of art, is returning to Denver on Sept. 1 with a digital twist. Yes, there will still be countless small, handmade works of art...
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Pink Progression is keeping the spirit of the Women’s March alive, hats and all
The 2017 Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in American history. More than 3 million people gathered in cities across the country to express anger over the two-plus centuries of...
View ArticleDenver Arts & Venues furloughs staff, closes venues for the rest of 2020
Despite taking measures since March to run as lean as possible, Denver Arts & Venues officials this week announced that the city agency will furlough its employees and close some of the city’s most...
View ArticleMeow Wolf ownership balks at employees’ attempts to form union
The employees of Meow Wolf announced plans to unionize this week, less than six months after the experiential-art company laid off half of its staff to stem financial losses from the pandemic shutdown....
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Supernova’s “World on Fire” will project massive digital artworks onto Denver...
In some ways, Supernova was built for this moment. The digital animation festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this week, annually commandeers downtown Denver’s largest public video screens...
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“Hecho en Colorado” captures a century of Latino culture in paintings,...
When Adrianna Abarca visited History Colorado Center’s massive, new museum eight years ago, she wandered up and down the 200,000 square feet of just-opened exhibition space hoping to learn a little bit...
View ArticleCrush Walls is back — and it just might make your summer
Crush Walls returns to RiNo this week, scaled back a bit but still promising at least some salvation for a summer of cultural ruin. It’s a welcome move, but also a logical one and, it must be said, a...
View ArticleAs Suspect Press shuts down, are Colorado’s other free, indie magazines in...
The final issue of Suspect Press, photographed at City O’ City in Denver. (Beth Rankin, The Denver Post)The website for Suspect Press, a seven-year-old Denver literary and art magazine, confronts...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Crush Walls brings 50 epic new murals to RiNo, Five Points
This is a wild statement to make during a pandemic, but this may be the best year yet to check out Crush Walls. The annual street art festival, running through Sept. 20, is naturally COVID-friendly...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Peek inside this renowned Hollywood collector’s customized Denver home
Joe Maddalena knows a good thing when he sees it. And he likes what he sees in Denver. As CEO and founder of Profiles in History — the Los Angeles company that bills itself as the world’s largest...
View ArticleWildfires create mass destruction and mass regeneration. Denver art exhibit...
In days like these, when the sun glows an alarming orange, and air is choked with smoke and ash that burns your eyes and prickles your throat, it’s hard to reconcile what Anna Kaye’s drawings have...
View ArticleA new Ruth Bader Ginsburg mural popped up in downtown Denver this weekend
Menace and Resa, two New York City street artists, were in Denver for the annual Crush Walls festival when word came on Friday that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. “When RBG passed...
View ArticleA Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera exhibition is coming to Denver next month. Here’s...
Attention, art lovers: Be sure to mark your calendars for Oct. 12 and Nov. 23. Those dates are when the first and second waves of tickets to the hotly anticipated “Mexican Modernism” exhibition at the...
View ArticleJohn Lithgow has a new book of Trump-era rhymes. See him talk “Trumpty...
If you love Kendrick Lamar or swoon to Cole Porter (or dig both; and why not?), you are surely a connoisseur of rhyme. John Lithgow gets it. The multi-award-winning actor has penned his second book of...
View ArticleDenver Botanic Garden’s sprawling new Freyer-Newman Center turns the gardens...
The Denver Botanic Gardens has spent more than $116 million revamping itself over the past decade. There’s a new science pyramid, gift shop and welcome center, a children’s garden, an outdoor bistro, a...
View ArticleYou could win original art for 50 cents at The Dairy Block’s new Art Claw...
The global pandemic has prompted many of us to treat public interactions as grab-and-go challenges. Get in, get what you need, and get out as fast as you possibly can. But it’s also spurred Thadeaous...
View ArticleWhat’s up with the massive, glowing polyhedron near downtown Denver?
Clark Richert has long had a way of using art to model complex ideas about math and science. He’s been working out methods for employing line and color to interpret rich concepts of geometry and...
View ArticleA Zoom play, but make it political: Curious Theatre jumps into the digital...
“It’s just so good to see them,” was the reaction to the early minutes of Curious Theatre Company’s “Hillary and Clinton.” No, we’re not talking about the wife and husband at the heart of Lucas Hnath’s...
View ArticleSick of wearing a mask all the time? OK, but what if was really awesome?
The new “Mask” exhibition at the Vicki Myrhen Gallery suggests that we all have a choice in how we get through the current pandemic that is upending our lives: We can endure it or we can indulge in it....
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