At 5 p.m. Thursday, I became one of the first people in this country to see The Emoji Movie a second time. (Aside, obviously, from the folks who made it — though I’m not entirely sure that some of them actually bothered to see it all the way through once.)…
The Denver County Cultural Council, which dishes out nearly $2 million a year to small arts and culture groups in the city (which happens to also be the entire county) has a vacancy, and Denver City Council is taking applications until Monday, August 14, to fill the position. The money…
Champagne 6, an all-women burlesque crew that aims to bring the spirit of Vegas to Denver, is run by mother-daughter duo, Jasmine and Katrina Lairsmith.
It’s hard to imagine a less promising film title than An Inconvenient Sequel. Maybe Another Imposition Upon Your Time? It’s clear, in the opening minutes, as we watch him shake off the slights and smears of his critics, that Al Gore is too savvily upbeat a technocrat to give the…
Vicky Foster and her crew––including around 20 llamas––have been hauling thousands of pounds of gear to the Hope Pass Aid Station every summer for thirty years in support of the Leadville Trail 100.
Officially, the brutish thriller Atomic Blonde takes place in Berlin just before and after the toppling of the Wall, in early November 1989. But this seismic event is really just a backdrop for another epochal marker: the decade that saw the birth of MTV and the height of New German…
The weekend may be just around the corner, but in a city where life gets more expensive every day, many residents may feel like they have to forgo their leisurely pursuits.
Some naysayers were concerned that Pirate’s move to Lakewood would mark the end of the artists’ co-op as a place to see cutting-edge art by some of the city’s most interesting artists, but the current shows by Eric Anderson and Charles Livingston should put those fears firmly to rest.
For Thomas “Detour” Evans’ interactive exhibit in the Temple tonight, expect bright colors, loud music DJed live, and a chance to break the usual “look-but-don’t-touch” rule of art viewership. Detour, whose work you might recognize from his rose-backed murals, RedLine residency or if you happen to have visited soccer superstar Tim Howard lately, has put together Between the Hues, an art showcase that will culminate in an afterparty at Meadowlark Kitchen.
German-born and raised in England, Natascha Seideneck now lives and works in Denver, leading concurrent lives as a fine-art photographer at Tank Studios, a teacher at Metropolitan State College of Denver and, in the local fashion world, as a sought-after hair stylist at El Salon.
Born and raised in Utah, contemporary-realist painter Jenny Morgan now lives in New York, where she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. But before that, she spent several years in Colorado, where she got her BFA at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2003. Now she’s back with a show at MCA Denver.
Enjoy the summer evenings and celebrate art at district-wide Final Friday artwalks and parties in Denver — or just go out and discover a rising young star or two. These five art openings are where it’s at this weekend.
For her current artist residency at the Denver Art Museum, dancer Laura Ann Samuelson encourages museum-goers to engage with the art around them in a different way.
Arts advocacy nonprofit Americans for the Arts has chosen Denver as the host city for its annual convention in June of 2018, further cementing the city’s status as an arts hub. Approximately 1,000 attendees will arrive in the Mile High City from June 15 to 17 to learn about advancing the arts on national policy stages as well as in local communities.
Thaddeus Phillips, known for his mind-expanding experimental work, has a young son, and his latest play, A Billion Nights on Earth, was created for children. Also adults.
Go low, go high and get high at some of the best events in Denver this week, including a visit from former first lady Michelle Obama, an aerial performance that’s sure to leave your jaw dropped, and the Mile High Marijuana Showcase. Keep reading — there’s more where that came from…
Denver is not much of a town for monumental sculpture. Still, while the quantity of public sculpture in this city may be lacking, there’s no shortage of quality — at least, not in the top ten outdoor sculptures in the Mile High City.
You can’t expect a storyteller to wring much suspense out of a real-life plot to assassinate Hitler. In the case of Georg Elser, the subject of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s German drama 13 Minutes, the filmmakers must contend not just with the fact that we know Elser’s 1939 bomb won’t end the…
Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book, The Hour of Land, was seeded in the red rock splendor and expansive salt flats of Utah, where her family’s roots stretch back five generations. The renowned environmental writer, activist, and teacher’s deep affection for the national parks and monuments of her home state prompted her self-described “love letter” in celebration of the National Park Service’s 2016 centennial. In The Hour of Land, Tempest Williams chronicles, through varied narrative forms, the past and present, personal experience of twelve national parks with reverence and a vivid clarity. Tempest Williams says the book’s ultimate scope surprised her: “What I thought I was writing was about our national parks and our public commons. What I think I ended up writing was a history of America and falling deeply in love with the country we call home.”
The two main characters in Bad Jews are loathsome, but their venomous exchanges are hilarious and insanely inventive, and they’re what give this swift, weirdly exhilarating play its force and energy.
Denver’s calendar is so full in the summer, you simply can’t go to every Star Wars celebration, burlesque show or special celebration. Fortunately, our photographers were there for you!
At 88 years young, the rebel-shaman filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has led an eclectic life and enjoyed a provocative career not easily encapsulated. His 1970 acid western, El Topo, crowned him godfather of the midnight-movie craze. His phantasmagoric 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, was ripped off by Kanye West for the…
