We can all feel comfortable calling Mark Amerika, the artist pioneer in new media technology, at least half-Coloradan, since he lives in Boulder (a separate republic, perhaps, but Colorado all the same) half of the time. And we can all cheer for him as a local when Amerika’s latest ground-breaking…
Last weekend’s Harajuku Street Fashion Party at Hinterland aimed to educate while giving aficonados a chance to deck out in Japanese pop styles and have a good time. If you were there, you might have caught on. And then again, you might not have. Here’s a vague pathway through the…
Fall is a busy time of year in the art world, and it’s hard to believe how quickly the weather and the local exhibits are changing. In fact, this season’s fall openers are rapidly heading to their appointed closings. With that in mind, I’m catching up and recommending two shows…
Woman attacks artwork: It was one of those stories guaranteed to get Colorado into the national spotlight. On October 6, Kathleen Folden, a fundamentalist Christian from Montana, acting on her religious zeal, attacked a print of “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (pictured below),” by Enrique Chagoya, which was on…
Indian summer? I think it came and went last Friday when balmy temperatures held into the evening for gallery-goers crossing back and forth on Delgany Street during twin openings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Art by Craft show across the street. Outdoors, the…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
It was third Friday-time again last night, and at Vertigo Art Space, that means artist reception time. Though not as crazy as the first Friday gallery openings on Sante Fe, third Friday receptions often provide a more intimate and focused evening for art fans. Last night, Dorothy Tanner hosted her…
In was weird enough when a 40-foot statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, moved into the Denver International Airport as a tie-in to the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit, provoking a renewed flurry of hand-wringing from people who believe DIA is secretly houses an alien…
Maybe it just means Finland is humorless, but it’s a pretty sad day for the world when a news anchor gets fired for making an on-air joke — and a pretty funny one, at that. Finnish English-language news anchor Kimmo Wilska was in the middle of a segment on bars…
Kim Kardashian sucks at bowling. That said, she looked really good while sucking at bowling when she hosted the opening of a new upscale casino in Connecticut a few days ago. That’s not the point though. The point is, I really don’t need to know this about Kim Kardashian. It’s…
Denver Arts week is just around the corner, with special events all over town for folks of all ages and cultural interests. It also heralds one of the biggest First Fridays of the year citywide on November 5, including in RiNo, where the galleries and artist studios will be pouring…
As everyone knows, Wednesday is the day that we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in the form of a compendium of whatever loosely related images we happen to come up with. “But wait,” you may say, “Wednesday was yesterday.” About that, my friend, you would be…
It was not a good day to get high. On a Wednesday afternoon, in a flurry of half-assed planning and with a pile of work accumulating on my desk back at the office like snow in a blizzard, I was on my way up to Central City for our All…
One classic argument made by supporters of the legalization of marijuana is that smoking weed never hurt anyone, and that alcohol consumption is the cause of “this many” deaths per year, not to mention domestic violence and other types of abuse. Now, some newbie growers in California have put pot…
Of all the neighborhoods in Denver, Civic Center is probably the one, from a design standpoint, with the most character. From the classical Greco-Roman columns and domes of Civic Center Park to the jutting angles of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building, there’s no neighborhood in Denver with quite Civic…
Being an artist isn’t easy — particularly in these United States, it’s indicative of how we view our artists that the starving one is a far more common portrayal than the successful one. That’s something Deanna Miller, who runs the City of Aurora’s public art program, knows about as well…
For nearly thirty years, Eldon “E.C.” Cunningham taught printmaking as the program coordinator at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He was also the director of the school’s Vicious Dog Press. On October 1, Cunningham died suddenly, rocking the Auraria campus and causing the print program at Metro to shut down…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies; a local maestra of event-planning, she throws several well-attended collectors’ expos, art shows, parties and chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid…
Patti Cramer passed away two weeks ago — but she leaves a host of friends and fans of her work. And she leaves behind many, many paintings and drawings in private collections across the country. Two dozen of those pieces will be on display at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln Street, for…
The new space for YesPleaseMore, the pop-up store that showcases strictly Colorado-designed fashions, artwork, jewelry and home accessories, showed off its new location in the Denver Pavilions on Friday night. YesPleaseMore was previously in another space in the Pavilions, and while the new location on the second level across from…
Yesterday, we brought you the story of a self-regarded warrior for Christ who took a crowbar to Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals” at the Loveland Museum Gallery because she apparently thought the artwork was desecrating her Lord. Sure, the piece appeared to depict the Messiah being fellated by…
Seems like a day doesn’t go by when I’m not writing something about Dana Cain, my favorite event coordinator, art collector, sci-fi and pop-culture geek, ’60s freak and frivolous idea machine. It’s as if she microchipped my brain one night as I lay sleeping and can read on her computer…
