Archive for the ‘ Denver Art ’ Category
Head up to Golden, where the air smells of delicious hops and barley, and check out the Foothills Art Center’s current show, the Colorado Arts Open 2009. Featuring the work of a wide range of artists from the Colorado state, there’s plenty to see and all different styles, formats, and concepts to appreciate. [ READ MORE ]
The temporary Denver Community Museum (a non-profit museum run by Denver’s Jamie Kopke) will be moving on its merry way this Saturday, and is holding an event entitled “An Ode – A Celebration – A Farewell” to mark the occasion. At the DCM, rotating exhibits were featured, and the ideas for the exhibits sprang from the [ READ MORE ]
If you’ve ever been down near Larimer Square on the early weekends in June, you’ve probably seen the chalk dust flying as artists decorate the streets in amazing, mind-boggling works on art done right there on the concrete. La Piazza dell’Arte is fast becoming one of the favorite summer traditions of downtown, and now’s your [ READ MORE ]
Finding a place for emerging poets to express themselves and connect with their fellow scribes and others in the community is a difficulty. Writing and reading often takes place behind closed doors, and often seems shared in hermetically sealed college-campus readings or coffee shops with the same repeat crowds. Thus enters the organization [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes I look around my tiny little apartment and think “I have way too much stuff.” As a packrat intent on saving every little bit of string or shiny object (I put this tendency down to my days playing video games, in which you had to collect a weird variety of things in your [ READ MORE ]
Another WACKY Denver Connect Photobooth got set up on First Friday Art Walk at the Fashion Denver office! (If you want any larger ones to print or send, contact me and I’ll email them to you. I’m too lazy to do all the big ones! I’m LAZY and WACKY!) [ READ MORE ]
Even though many of the hippies and other far-out groovers from the 60s grew up, cut their hair short and moved to the suburbs, their psychedelic experiences linger in our collective cultural minds. Flip on the radio, and the acid-tinged lyrics of Jefferson Starship or the Beatles during their Sgt. Pepper period still hit [ READ MORE ]
When I think of the ballet, the first image that pops into my mind is a big bear in a small car, thanks to the misunderstading of Homer on a Simpsons episode long ago. So Colorado Ballet, it’s up to you to change my mind! The Colorado Ballet’s season is ending on March 21st, giving us [ READ MORE ]
Art is going to be gangbuster this week- First Friday shows are popping up all over and plenty of them are going to be a feast for art lovers city-wide. Over at nifty little 11th Avenue Gallery (15 E. 11th Avenue), this Friday features the opening of a show by Ali Pate, along with flower [ READ MORE ]
Gah! It’s Wednesday- that bleak no-man’s land that lies between the hopeful beauty of Friday and the dreaded Monday. There’s something draining about a Wednesday, as if you don’t know quite how to feel. That’s why I’m looking forward to SPUN tonight at the Meadowlark Lounge (27th and Larimer) from 9PM- close. [ READ MORE ]
Tonight it’s Fashion Denver night at the opera! At the Ellie Caulkins Opera house tonight, get a chance to see the beautiful opera The Pearl Fishers for a steep, steep discount, and show the upper crust what real Denver fashion looks like! A lovely opera, set in Sri Lanka, finds a beautiful priestess in love with a [ READ MORE ]
Westword’s gala art/music/fashion/food event is back for another year. On Sat. February 24, Vinyl (1082 Broadway) will be hopping with all sorts of delightful bites from local restaurants, and bands and fashion shows will provide plenty of entertainment. I’m particularly excited for the Betsey Johnson show, as she’s a national fashion [ READ MORE ]
Oh, Valentine’s Day (or the more popular TimeWarnerDisneyHallmarkPringles holiday, Love Day) is here again. Most of my past V-days have been spent drinking delicious martinis and cheaper beer (that tastes more delicious as the night goes on), and I always thought that was a pretty sound way to celebrate a day (ANY day, really!) [ READ MORE ]
On Feb. 12, RedLine Studios will be hosting the premiere party for the newest community-arts-and-other-fun-stuff oriented online magazine Illiterate. The party theme is Love Hate/Hate Love, just in time for everyone’s favorite day, Love Day (not to be confused with Valentine’s Day. Love Day is a subsidiary of DisneyTimeWarnerHallmarkPringles. I [ READ MORE ]
Denver artist Justin Beard will be having an artist’s reception for his awesome piece “One Day at Work” at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design at 6PM. It’s a great piece to see- check out this Youtube video of the work, for which Justin built a clever motorized arm to move the [ READ MORE ]
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein is on view through February 8, 2009, and holy #$!@ is it good. I saw it a few days ago and strongly urge you to go. You don’t have to be an art freak to love it. It made me want to go (back) to New Mexico, pronto. Hurry, [ READ MORE ]
It’s been a busy few weeks over at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Not only did artist Ana Maria Hernando premiere La Montana, a mountain of colorful Peruivian petticoats and videos, last week, but today (Feb. 3) marks the opening of the new exhibit Shark’s Ink in their Paperworks Gallery. La Montana find [ READ MORE ]
My friend Gavin’s Denver-based company Creative Instinct is giving away free President Obama limited edition trading cards commemorating this historic day. http://www.custom-tradingcards.com/ <- CLICK, Whoohoo! [ READ MORE ]
Taking a trip to our northern neighbor city? The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting two new exhibits that look pretty great. Out of Shapes will feature stainless steel sculptures by artist Bret Price. From the website, they look like huge, intricate creations made from a material we so often associate with [ READ MORE ]
Sounds science-fictiony, no? Well, Denver’s own wunder-artist Justin Beard is at it again, creating art that is awesome and inventive. Taking an experience from his work as a handy man, Beard created a mirrored paint roller that runs up and down the wall as the viewer pushes the pedal. Beard built the elaborate machine that runs [ READ MORE ]
Whoa! This year marks the first full calendar year I’ve been a denzien of the Denver area. So much stuff happened! Art! Politics! Music! Hobos! So here are my musings on some of my favorite events and activities and sights from the year. I’m sure I’ll leave out [ READ MORE ]
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It’s that special holiday time of year when we roast chestnuts over an open fire, fill the stockings of good girls and boys with walnuts, and go completely nuts when faced with all the present shopping and family details. Yes, it is a nut-heavy time of year. (Add freezing your nuts off for the [ READ MORE ]
Hey Northern Neighbors! If you’re up in Ram Territory (I know, I know) then head over to the CSU campus to check out Cari Jo Blain’s senior thesis show. Cari Jo is awesome, and her art will be too. Tonight is the reception! Go tonight! Or at least by the 19th to see [ READ MORE ]
The Old Man vs. the Whipper Snapper?! This looks like fun. I’m going. [ READ MORE ]
First Friday already? My how the time flies! It doesn’t seem like a month has passed since Denver’s big Fear No Art event in November! Over at 11th Avenue Gallery (11th Avenue between Lincoln and Broadway), First Friday features a look at everyday images through the paintings of Sarah Booth in her [ READ MORE ]
