Both artist and artisan, Cal Duran creates folk art on steroids, bowing to the ancient traditions of Mexico and the Southwest and conjuring the souls of the ancestors in murals and installations of clay and papier-mâché.
Denver has a lot going on when it comes to street art.
Between the Biennial of the Americas, CRUSH and the city’s already vibrant cultural life, Denver is beset by so many festivals, concerts, screenings, openings and shows this week that it would be impossible for even the busiest bees to experience more than a fraction of the entertainments awaiting them.
The Telluride Horror Show, one of the premier horror movie gatherings, is just a month away. And a trip to the mountains is in order for those who enjoy creature features. The festival just released its first slate of offerings, including full length movies and both live-action and animated shorts, and, just watching the trailers of some of these flicks has terrified us.
On August 29, 2017, local Denver artists John Hastings, better known as RUMTUM, and Pat Milbery teamed up to do a year-long-awaited collaboration at the Globeville bar, Fort Greene.
The Institute for New Feeling has joined forces with the Black Cube Nomadic Museum to poke fun at the exploding enhanced water industry. The end product is a bottled water called Avalanche, manufactured complete with its own vending machines, which they’ll market, taking an absurdist approach, as a recycled beverage made fresh again by human usage.
Appropriate is an absorbing, ghost-haunted play, and a smart start to Curious Theatre Company’s new season.
Robert Schaller of the Handmade Film Institute will conduct a pinhole motion picture camera workshop and screen some of his work this weekend at the SIE FilmCenter.
The weekend is nigh, and many cashless Denver residents may find themselves scrambling for things to do. Fret not, destitute locals, for we have scoured the town for fun-filled events with cover charges that ring in for $10 dollars or less.
Sommer Browning is a poet, but she’s opting to take a chance by turning her own garage into a creative incubator where artists, writers, performing artists and filmmakers can all mingle freely. Browning calls it Georgia Art Space, and the pop-up venue makes its debut this weekend with an exhibit by artist Joshua Ware.
As a recognizable face of the new, arts-rich Trinidad, Colorado, Rodney Wood serves as the grand poobah of what could be the southern Colorado town’s most distinguishing features: The annual ArtoCade art-car festival, and as of 2017, its year-round companion, the Bizarre Car Garage, a permanent museum where ArtoCade vehicles winter over.
In September, the Biennial of the Americas and Crush 2017 descend over Denver for a mash-up of enlightened cross-cultural discourse and gritty urban street art. Art goes on, in the galleries and in the streets; here are some of the places both will intersect this weekend.
In Eliza Hittman’s debut feature, It Felt Like Love, a young girl tests the waters of adult sexuality, offering her body up to the statuesque bros who live in her Eastern Seaboard beach town. She tries her hardest to mimic the women in pornos, the ones all the boys want,…
Is there a more telling symptom of the sickness afflicting studio filmmaking right now than the fact that there aren’t more good Reese Witherspoon comedies out there? In eras past, a hit could be built more years than not around a star like her. Sunny yet tart, she’s a romantic…
It floats in the darkness, unspooling onscreen with a sepulchral glow. It has waited for what seems like an eternity to meet the eyes of its audience, and it senses in them both anticipation and dread. Yes, there was that bizarre miniseries back in 1990 (God, remember Tim Curry in…
A conversation with the Director of the Colorado Film School, Brian Steward, now entering his second year in the position.
ARC Thrift Stores were selling secondhand clothes and housewares to Coloradans decades before Macklemore made thrift shopping the subject of a chart-climbing rap tune. Since ARC opened its first store in 1968, the nonprofit has used proceeds from store sales to support and advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Downs syndrome and autism. Today it employs 300 individuals with intellectual and development disabilities, and it will debut its 26th Front Range location in Littleton this month.
The story beats of Patti Cake$, a socioeconomic-sermonizing comedy about a thick young white woman with huge hip-hop dreams and little prospects, are as predictable as the ticking of an egg timer, as generic and tinny as the pulses of a drum machine. I rooted not for Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle…
Besides your discomfort, one effect of writer/director Justin Chon choosing the title Gook for his electric, impassioned second feature is a suggestion of definitiveness, a suggestion that, for better or worse, this isn’t just the story of its characters but that of a people. The film, a comic drama tinged…
When actor/writer/director Justin Chon was 11, his father took in early news reports about the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and left without a word to drive to the family’s shoe store in Paramount, a relatively poor 4.8-square-mile city bordered by Compton and Downey. “In a lot of Korean families,…
This week marks the end and beginning of a few things in Denver. Film on the Rocks bows out on Monday, September 11, with a screening of Twister, and the CRUSH Festival returns to RiNo on the same day. Find more on those events and more in our 21 best…
Visionary Denver architect Charles Deaton erected a handful of remarkably original structures in the middle of the twentieth century. His most famous work, the “Sculptured House” in Genesee, is unofficially known as the Sleeper house; his bank in Englewood will be celebrated on September 7.
