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Category: The Arts
Friday, November 20, 2009
 Jeanne-Claude, one half of the art team that wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and installed 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died yesterday in Manhattan, where she lived with her husband, Christo.
Jeanne-Claude was 74. She met Christo Javacheff, a Bulgarian refugee, in Paris in 1958. Christo was already wrapping small objects at that time. Three years later, the two collaborated on a temporary installation in Cologne, Germany—oil drums and rolls of industrial paper wrapped in tarpaulin.
To establish an artistic brand, they used only Christo’s name, but in 1994 they retroactively applied the joint name “Christo and Jeanne-Claude” to their outdoor and large-scale temporary indoor works, according to The New York Times.
In an online statement, Christo says he is saddened by his wife’s death but remains “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That means completing their controversial “Over The River” installation project on the Arkansas River in Colorado. But even with Christo’s determination to finish the $50 million project, it has many hurdles to clear.
The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing the artists’ proposal and is assessing the environmental impacts, the Colorado Springs Gazette points out, after Cañon City-based Rags Over the Arkansas River stated its opposition to the project. Christo and Jeanne-Claude first visited the Arkansas River Valley 14 years ago, notes The Pueblo Chieftain, which interviews the couple’s local independent consultant.
Posted at 10:00 am by Michael de Yoanna
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
 Popular Colorado photographer John Fielder is zig-zagging the state after spending a year with ranchers.
He’s touring to promote his latest book, “Ranches of Colorado,” which includes a stop for a slideshow and book signing tomorrow night on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins—an event that will help support the Legacy Land Trust, a nonprofit land-conservation organization, notes the Northern Colorado Business Report.
Here’s his complete book promotion schedule.
The ornate book is Fielder’s “most beautiful innovation so far,” writes the Estes Park Trail Gazette, with 232 pages and 375 color photographs of working cattle ranches. The book is meant to bring attention to the rapid loss of ranchland in Colorado to development. As Senior Editor Luc Hatlestad wrote recently for 5280, Fielder has focused his lens on the outdoors for more than three decades. Now, he’s beginning to recognize the value of putting people into the frame.
Posted at 1:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Friday, November 13, 2009
East End Arts District’s Winter Art Walk, Multiple Locations, Aurora
Friday, November 13 | Details | Read more
Set out from the Martin Luther King Jr. Library and allow this vibrant enclave to introduce itself. Admire sculptures by local artists, get your hands dirty at Mud Hut Ceramics, sip hot cider during a rehearsal at Shadow Theatre Company, and ruminate on your night’s journey while listening to live music at Zephyr Lounge.
More: Where the Wild Things Art | Calaveras: Skulls, Skeletons, Devils and Demons in Mexican Folk Art | Malcolm Farley | Things as They Are
Posted at 9:30 am by Samantha Stewart
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
 The Winterling, Paragon Theatre
Through Saturday, November 14 | Details | Read more
Taking a page from Guy Ritchie’s playbook, The Winterling is a dark, British comedy about three loser gangsters. In the dead of night, in a deserted farmhouse, in the middle of an uninhabited forest, the outcasts unite. But why? And who’s the mysterious woman living upstairs?
More: Wicked | Absurd Person Singular | Quake | The Tales of Hoffman | Ameriville | And Then There Were None
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Saturday Night at the Museums, Multiple Locations
Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
Eleven museums throughout Denver offer a night of free cultural events based on Paris’ popular La Nuit des Musées. And with special arts-centric programming taking place at each venue—like a peek at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Genghis Khan exhibit, edible Dia de los Muertos projects at Museo de las Americas, and re-enactments at the Black Americans West Museum—you’ll want to take advantage of the free shuttles running throughout the night.
More: Know Your Arts First Friday | The Art of Teotihuacan & Its Sphere of Influence | Art Fitness Training (Track A Session 1) | Currents: Native American Forces in Contemporary Arts
Posted at 12:30 pm by Samantha Stewart
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Friday, November 6, 2009
 Well, Ricketson Theatre
Opens Friday, November 6 | Details | Read more
As Lisa Kron tells it, her life growing up in suburban Michigan was full of puppy love and crazy neighborhood antics. Then, her invalid mother butts in to convey the “true” version of events. Kron uses humor to address her mother’s chronic illness in this autobiographical play about mother-daughter relationships.
More: Squirm Burpee: A Vaudvillian Melodrama | The Tales of Hoffman | Quake | Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood | Intersection | I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change | Vox Phamalia: Re-Dux | Kosher Lutherans
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Heads, Denver Victorian Playhouse
Through Thursday, October 29 | Details | Read more | Watch trailer
Current events intersect with theater in this story about four hostages in Iraq. Blindfolded and shoved into dark, closet-sized cells, each fights to survive in an impossible situation. Don’t miss your last chance to see this winner of the 2008 Francesca Primus Prize, awarded to an emerging female artist for contributions to American theater.
More: A Raisin in the Sun | Intersection | Honk! | Guizhou Chinese Modern & Contemporary Dance Ensemble | Fat Pig | Demented Divas Go to Hollywood!
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Second Tosca, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Through Sunday, November 22 | Details | Read more
An aging opera diva tries to stay in the spotlight, while a young starlet yearns to take her place and a scheming conductor pursues his own agenda. The result is former Denverite Tom Rowan’s comedic tale of jealousy, love, and ambition, which is being staged outside of New York for the first time.
More: Greg Behrendt | Don Quixote | The Real Inspector Hound | The Voysey Inheritance | La Traviata | Yankee Tavern | The Sunset Limited
Posted at 1:45 pm by Daliah Singer
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Jeannette Walls, Tattered Cover, Highlands Ranch
Tuesday, October 20 | Details | Read more | Watch
Jeannette Walls tugged at our hearts with The Glass Castle, a gritty memoir about a life defined by eccentricity and periods of homelessness—a revelation about an existence she once labored to keep hidden. What other secrets are buried in her family tree? Find out when Walls reads from Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, a first-person account of her grandmother’s life.
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 7), Mary Miller Theater
Friday, October 16, through Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
If contemporary slasher flicks have left you nostalgic for a good old-fashioned mystery thriller, head for the ‘burbs this hallowed season. Now in its seventh year, the Theater Company of Lafayette’s period portrayal of three original TZ episodes also features staged parodies of classic commercials.
More: Pumpkin Festival | International FrightFest Film Series | Howl-o-ween Fundraiser | Corn Maze | Wicked | Halloween Dreams | Night of the Living Dead | Central City Creepy Crawl
Posted at 1:00 pm by Vanessa Martinez
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Friday, October 16, 2009
 Passengers, Liesl Lighting
Friday, October 16, and Saturday, October 17 | Details | Read more
Audience members are passengers on this adventurous 7dancers journey, a performance that draws from ballet, tap, contemporary, and hip-hop movements. Trek across the globe with the dancers as the space transforms into a train station that travels from France to Carnival in Brazil.
More: The Jungle Book | MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago | Don Quixote
Posted at 9:45 am by Daliah Singer
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Monday, October 12, 2009
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later…An Epilogue, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Monday, October 12 | Details | Read more
Eleven years have passed since Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered near Laramie, and the Tectonic Theater Project has revisited the Wyoming border town to gauge the lingering impact of the crime. Showing in more than 150 theaters nationwide on the anniversary of Shepard’s death, the local performance features DU students and faculty.
Posted at 12:30 pm by Daliah Singer
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Through Sunday, August 16 | Details | Read more
Botero’s “baroque” adheres to an exaggerated aesthetic in unexpected ways, while commenting on contemporary Colombian society and politics. Catch this Latin American artist’s exclusive North American retrospective in its final days on display.
More: Forecast | Fine Line | Seeing Red
Posted at 1:42 pm by Vanessa Martinez
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
 This year, instead of fighting the heat at the annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival, head to Breckenridge for the town’s yearly gathering of local and national artists.
As a cool mountain breeze glides through the air, check out paintings, nature photography, ceramics, and even woodwork. Sure, the high country’s artists may not be as avant-garde as those in the Denver show, but they provide a nice diversion from city life.
Fri-Sun, July 3-5. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Main Street Station and The Village at Breckenridge, South Main St. and Park Ave.
970-547-9326, free
Posted at 1:00 pm by Kazia Jankowski
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
 Take ballet, remove the classical music, then replace it with songs by INXS and Queen, and you’ve got Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s Rock Ballets. Yes, tutus and plies are still part of the show, but set to guitars and drums they quickly lose their stuffiness. These outdoor performances were wildly popular last year, but BNC has scheduled just one this year–tonight–so don’t wait around for a “next time.”
Sat, June 20. 7:30 p.m.
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., 720-898-7200
$10-$28
Posted at 12:00 pm by Kazia Jankowski
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
 Some words, when tossed between men, act as knives, cutting into the soul as well as the deepest of insecurities. Most certainly not among them is the word “goose.”
Unless of course you’re reading the absurd Ukrainian story The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich–or watching its recent theatrical adaptation, The Squabble, at Buntport Theater. In this 1835 story by Nikolai Gogol, compare a man to that fat, waddling bird and all hell breaks loose.
Buntport’s latest production follows Bob Boxinoxingworth and Bob Luggalollinstop as one calls the other a “goose,” starting an argument that eventually involves the entire town, including the pig (also the play’s narrator). The story is told with Buntport’s usual Monty-Python-esque touches and has garnered widespread audience acclaim since it opened last month.
Through June 20.
Thu-Sat 8 p.m.; Sun 3 p.m. $16
Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., 720-946-1388
Posted at 10:45 am by Kazia Jankowski
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
 I live a stone’s throw from the Botanic Gardens, so come spring, as the Gardens kick off its summer concerts and other festivities, I’m likely to see rockers step off their stretch buses or enthusiastic gardeners walk by carrying leafy plants. But a couple weeks ago, I witnessed something more unusual. Zipping into the side entrance of the Gardens was a golf cart hauling a giant dinosaur. Whatever was going on inside the gates didn’t have anything to do with a plant sale.
That dinosaur, I found out, is part of the summer Jurassic Gardens show. Until the end of September, Denver’s plant epicenter will showcase life-size, scaly creatures from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods. Which means the kids can simultaneously learn about daisies and T-Rex while exploring the Gardens.
But the ancient reptile replicas aren’t for everyone, and if you prefer an experience that’s more akin to the art museum, not the Museum of Nature and Science, head directly to Extinction: Artists Respond. There, 17 Colorado artists address dinosaurs, death, and the end of a species. The painting, mixed-media, and structural works (one of which is pictured here) will be on display until July 26.
Through Sept. 30.
Mon-Tue 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Wed-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat-Sun 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St., 720-865-3585
Free with paid admission.
Posted at 10:45 am by Kazia Jankowski
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Monday, June 1, 2009
As of early this morning, there was no indication on the New Denver Civic Theatre’s website of the financial problems that could cause its doors to be closed today. The small, two-theater complex at 721 Santa Fe Drive owes more than $100,000 in rent and taxes, according to The Denver Post, citing a notice that says Evergreen National Bank is seeking repossession of the property back to the building’s landlord, Zbigniew “Greg” Mania.
The backstory of the theater is a complex one of business partnerships and property ownership–and it has the owners of 1883 Productions wondering if they’ll be able to weather the battle. As the sole tenant of the 105-seat black-box theater, 1883 runs two burlesque shows, “Leadville or Bust” and “V Burlesque,” and hopes that if Mania takes control of the property, he will work out a deal with them to allow the shows to go on.
Posted at 10:15 am by Michael de Yoanna
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Monday, June 1, 2009
 Dessert never goes out of style–or so goes the painting philosophy of 88-year-old artist Wayne Thiebaud. In the 1960s, Thiebaud began painting likenesses of cakes and pies, using thick acrylics to mimic frosting and meringue. At the time, New York galleries thought Thiebaud was crazy, but when the painter’s first show drew hundreds, and the city’s Museum of Modern Art bought a piece, the art world reconsidered.
Since then, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chicago Institute of Art have displayed Thiebaud’s works. His latest show, Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting, will be catching eyes on the Front Range through the end of the summer.
Through August 16.
Tue-Wed 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thu 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun noon-4 p.m.
Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland
970-962-2410
Free
Posted at 8:45 am by Kazia Jankowski
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