Arts & Culture

Geometric abstraction, an international current, has played an outsized role in the modern art of the American West for the past fifty years, maybe longer. Consider the career of Colorado’s Clark Richert, Agnes Martin’s work in New Mexico…you get the idea. This type of work has not only held on to its relevance, but it’s currently making a comeback. A strong case for that return is The Connected Edge, at the William Havu Gallery, where a trio of artists — two from New Mexico and one from Wyoming — are showing compositions with strong linear elements.

Theo Wilson, a true Renaissance Man, is an activist and artist who won a national slam-poetry contest. Now he’s created a true salon with Shop Talk Live, his community-building sessions held in local barbershops and beauty shops.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts just announced its 2017-’18 Broadway season, and it includes Hamilton, which will be open at the Buell Theatre on February 27, 2018 — which means less than a year to wait. Tickets to the full Broadway subscription season are now on sale; single-show tickets will be available at a later date.

Fort Collins photographer Tim Van Schmidt started going to concerts in Los Angeles in the 1970s. He wrote about rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and about the early years of punk. By 1980, he’d moved to Fort Collins, where he started writing a fanzine and a weekly…

Video Station held its an annual Oscar contest on Sunday, February 26…and the next day, the 35-year-old Boulder store announced that it would be shuttering its doors for good early in March.  The news was sad but not surprising; what’s remarkable is that the brick-and-mortar video store stayed open year after…

The Mixed Taste got its start at the Lab at Belmar; when director Adam Lerner moved over to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he brought Mixed Taste with him. And now it’s about to move on again: to Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

One moment that encompassed the entire feel of Artopia: immediately after the fashion show, the bottom floor was taken down and the runway transformed into a live-painting session space equip with walls for a handful of the most talented artists in Denver.

With a bowling alley, arcade, and a gastropub-style dining venue, The Wild Game Entertainment Experience is making a play to be Longmont’s one-stop shop for fun.

Anne Fanganello isn’t afraid to shake up the status quo with her fashion. Her two lines – the couture AnnaFesta and athletic FestaSports – aim to make women of all shapes and sizes, especially plus sizes, feel confident and comfortable in their own skin. You can see her work in action at the Whiteout fashion show at Westword’s Artopia, set for February 25 at City Hall.