Andy Warhol never seems to go out of style: His deadpan persona and immeasurable impact on modern culture remain emblematic long after his death, and the rage is especially strong here in Denver right now, with the January opening of Warhol in Colorado at the University of Denver’s Myhren Gallery…
Zipping through the bulk of modern Louisville, with all its bedroom-community developments (it took first place in Money Magazine’s Best Place to Live: Top 100 in 2009), you’d think that most of the Boulder County berg’s Italian coal-mining heritage has all but disappeared. But once you find yourself in the…
Octogenarian musician/musicologist David Amram’s ties to the Beats hold strong, especially in San Francisco, where jazz and poetry intersected, and in some ways, he’s one of the last grand old men of the cause. It’s no small thing, then, to consider that Amram will be among the presenters, along with…
Matt Doubek and Sam Mobley work in unique, yet aligned styles: In addition to painting and silkscreening, both do graphic design work; Matt also builds and installs custom wood architectural details for homes, and Sam creates forward-thinking one-of-a-kind furniture. Put them together — something that happens at least once a…
Last Sunday, the Denver Art Museum’s American Indian Art Galleries suddenly got a whole lot more personal: That’s when DAM native arts curator Nancy Blomberg unveiled a whole new way of looking at Indian art to the public, by celebrating the individual talents of heretofore unrecognized artists and craftsmen. The…
It goes without saying that planning Design After Dark, the annual art auction and benefit party for the Denver Art Museum’s Department of Architecture, Design & Graphics, has its own special challenges: It has to be visual and cutting-edge in theme to meet the expectations of an equally stylish and…
Anyone with at least one toe in Jack Kerouac’s waters knows that Beat godhead and energy-spinner Neal Cassady — aka Dean Moriarty of On the Road — grew up on Denver’s skid row, the streetwise reform-schooled son of a drunk. It’s not a stretch to say that the whole Beat…
The Boulder Fringe Festival won’t officially unfurl again until August, but the folks behind it all would still like to remind you that it’s coming back. To that end, the world is invited to tonight’s annual Fringe Lottery Party, where names for the majority of this year’s performers will be…
Andrew Novick and Janene Hurst, the stark raving mad brains behind Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast have taken monster steps up the ladder with their Japan-centric concern: The couple, who go on buying trips in Japan, opened and closed their Belmar store, vend at NDK and other cosplay meccas, throw all…
I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…
Deep in the midst of the digital age, International Film Series programmer Pablo Kjolseth makes no bones about his love of celluloid, the analog of film, especially, but not necessarily, in black and white. Because of that, the University of Colorado’s IFS is arguably the region’s last true vestige of…
This just in, from our friend and favorite Santero, Jerry Vigil: A saint for these times…
For the last year, something’s been missing from the Lida Project. Certainly, it hasn’t been creativity or an open mind; under the energetic guidance of stand-in artistic director Julie Rada, the local experimental theater group in fact thrived as well as any small group of its kind can in Denver,…
Do you have holey sweaters? Or a favorite woolen scarf worn by time and use? Fingerless mittens that aren’t supposed to be that way? Now you can fix ’em: Jaime Kopke, who once inspired Denverites with her interactive pop-up Denver Community Museum, is joining forces with coffee fanatic Megan Quicke…
As if to welcome the new year with some fresh business, the Denver Art Museum is bringing back its monthly, expect-anything event for adults, Untitled. And fully in the spirit of perfect timing, this initial session, Untitled #33 (Pledge), is all about kicking aside the already-broken resolutions and making some…
Kirsten Coplans thinks small. She lives and works simply in a tiny, eclectic Uptown matchbox of a house furnished with retro furniture and blooming collections: Chinese jewelry boxes with miniature drawers, Asian dolls, vintage glass casseroles patterned in fruity colors. Her studio, where she creates Pearl Clothing, her local line…
The beauty of chamber music is in its intimacy and immediacy; you can’t help, as an audience member, being caught up in the interplay and, even better, the moment. And at tonight’s Chamber Music Series Concert at the Denver School of the Arts, which raises funds for the DSA Orchestra,…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado opens for public viewing today at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his…
Dana Cain makes no secret of her blossoming identity as a collector of works by local artists, and is always looking for ways to share her fervor: Her latest, the Art Collectors Summit series, debuts this evening during the Art District in Santa Fe’s Third Friday event, offering gallery-goers a…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado debuts tonight at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his works, assembled by…
What if Romeo and Juliet lived in a trailer park and the Montagues and the Capulets were — wait a beat — competing meth rings? Don’t groan: When Paul Cross and his student/teacher improv team from the Yes! Lab put their twist to the traditional tragedy this weekend, it just…
Appreciation for Denver artist Mark Penner-Howell’s clever paintings, which expertly mix pop images with ironic underlying themes in a colorful palette and humorous tone, has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but with his latest show — The New Normal, which opens tonight at Space Gallery — he’s…
