Arts & Culture

Over 700 unique works of art by Colorado artists deck out the new Kimpton Hotel Born Denver.

Though Denver is awash in hot-ticket entertainment all weekend long, Westword hasn’t forgotten about all the Johnny-come-lately readers with empty pockets and nothing to do.

There are more than 1000 ants in the Boulder basement art gallery where Jacob Lemanski sits cross-legged, explaining how he got from biking across continents to building ant farms. All four walls of the room host what Lemanski calls Ant Spaces: thin layers of soil and brightly-hued sand set between glass and illuminated by LEDs that change color. The ants tunnel through the soil, creating slowly-shifting patterns in the dirt to reveal the background image of the Carina Nebula. In a word, it’s mesmerizing.

Colorado Ballet has been going through big changes, including the exit of principal dancer Sharon Wehner.

A second wave of I-70 viaduct street art has brought out nearly thirty local artists. The community can view the new installations on Saturday, August 26 from 2-6 p.m.

Say goodbye to summer vacations and hello to a new season of arts and culture: Here are six ways to get a head start on fall exhibits.

The artists at current shows at the William Havu Gallery and Tina Goodwin Fine Art are all taking their own routes to the same goal: using old-fashioned representational imagery in some kind of contemporary way.

After diving into how ticketing works at Red Rocks, we wondered how other Denver Arts & Venues properties, like the Buell Theatre, handle ticketing for high-demand theatrical productions, such as Frozen and Hamilton.