Arts & Culture

Summer parties and elegant receptions — they’re all within reach whether you’re an artist or just a fan of them. Mix it up this week at these six events and openings.

Abstraction has been on a tear in the 21st century, and now there’s more proof of abstraction’s consistent appeal in contemporary art, in the form of three solos and a group show at Robischon Gallery.

Chances are good that you’ve noticed the street art in Denver. Chances are also pretty good that you’ve seen something that Pat Milbery helped create.

Write Our World: Crawford Elementary School highlights the experiences of persecution and triumph that brought immigrant and refugee families from all over the world — including Nepal and Bhutan to Somalia — to Crawford Elementary School in Aurora, where 95 percent of students are minorities and 75 percent are English learners.

The Black Cube Nomadic Museum is keeping Cortney Lane Stell more than busy in 2017. As director and chief curator of the Denver-based museum without walls, finding new avenues to explore as a curator comes easily to Stell. Case in point: the latest Black Cube project, Drive-In: Personal Space, an exhibit/performance she co-curated with Ruth Bruno of Colorado Creative Industries that will pop up for one night only in a vacant lot in RiNo on August 19.

The River North Arts District is booting out actual artists – that’s the claim of a group of arts activists who ramped up the fight against gentrification in the River North neighborhood by redecorating three iron slabs touting the RiNo Art District with flowers, crosses and other objects of mourning on Monday, August 14, 2017.

The High Plains Comedy Festival has announced its full schedule for its fifth edition.

The author Lorrie Moore once described a novel as a marriage, while short stories function more like brief affairs. Colorado has inspired many literary hookups, some passionate and some bleak. Here’s a list of short stories set in Colorado that you can easily read on your next lunch break.

The Denver improv scene is “more diverse than Portland, not as diverse as Queens,” explains Nick Trotter, Voodoo’s Director of Education. This is a low bar.

“In order to be a strong ecosystem where artists can thrive, we have to have a healthy amount of cross-pollination” says Libby Barbee, Arts in Society and Programming manager at RedLine. It’s that aim, along with a vested interest in socially- and community-engaged art, that anchors the 48 Hours Summit, a free and open-to-the-public August 11-12 series of talks, workshops, and visual and performance art related to the gallery’s annual theme, (dis)place.

Ron Campbell quit animating after fifty years in the trade to try his hand at painting. His subjects of choice: the characters he had once inked to life: the Smurfs, the Jetsons, Scooby Doo and especially the Beatles.