MCA’s Colorful New Exhibit Celebrates a Colorado Art Legend

Clark Richert in Hyperspace takes a multi-dimensional look at the artist's mathematical painting career.

By Haley Gray

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DAM’s Newest Exhibition Challenges Visitors to Think About Light

By Victoria Carodine

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At Denver’s 701 Gallery, Creativity Comes Alive

By Meredith Sell

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Studio Chat with Photographer and Collage Artist Susan Goldstein

By Meredith Sell

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This Art Installation Is a Walking Tour of RiNo

By Victoria Carodine

10 Must-See Exhibits During the Month of Photography 2019

Month of Photography exhibits run the gamut from portraiture and street photography to abstract work and collage.

By Meredith Sell

How Jordan Casteel’s Returning the Gaze Landed in Denver

The new exhibit, opening at the Denver Art Museum on February 2, celebrates the work of the 29-year-old, Colorado-born painter, whose colorful portraits reimagine the relationship between artist and subject.

By Kiran Herbert

Prepare to Stop and Stare at This New Art Exhibit

Painter Jordan Casteel returns home to the Mile High City for her first major solo art exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.

By Daliah Singer

Stock Show Artist Paints a Realistic Image of the Rural West

Terry Gardner, the featured artist at the Coors Western Art Exhibit—part of the National Western Stock Show, beginning January 12—doesn't want to "glorify" the West. Instead, he produces raw, sometimes melancholic, paintings that highlight the most urgent issues facing rural Colorado.

By Jay Bouchard

Learn Light Art from Denver’s Luminary Sculptor

Dorothy Tanner, the lauded 95-year-old Denver sculptor and recipient of the 2018 Denver Mayor’s Award for Artistic Excellence and Innovation, is now taking students.

By Haley Gray

The European Refugee Crisis Inspired This Denver Artist’s Latest Collection

Artist Calvin Lee will donate 90 percent of the money he makes during December’s First Friday Art Walk to the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, which provides free legal services to immigrants in the United States.

By Angela Ufheil

Adam Lerner, Longtime Director of MCA Denver, to Step Down in June 2019

After 10 years at the helm of one of Denver's most creative art institutions, Lerner is ready for something new.

By Daliah Singer

How the Denver Art Museum Curated Its 2019 Monet Exhibition

One of the largest-ever selections of Claude Monet paintings is coming to the Denver Art Museum in 2019. Here's a look at how the museum organized this extraordinary exhibition.

By Victoria Carodine

Denver’s Newest Billboard Isn’t Trying to Sell You Anything

The massive photograph in southwest Denver is part of For Freedoms' nationwide effort to prompt civic engagement and dialogue through art.

By Daliah Singer

Nothing Is as It Seems in Tara Donovan’s Fieldwork, Now Open at MCA Denver

"There’s a visual shift that happens in all of my work that isn’t really apparent in a photograph," Donovan says.

By Haley Gray

DAM’s Exclusive Rembrandt Exhibit Is a Must-See

Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker is a once-in-a-lifetime collection of 100 pieces by the 17th century Dutch artist, offering unique insight into his skill, artistry, and impact on modern printmaking.

By Victoria Carodine

Join the Discourse on Gun Violence at the Dairy Arts Center

A new exhibition opening Friday explores an epidemic of death by guns in excruciating detail.

By Haley Gray

At GatherHouse Glassblowing, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Get hands-on instruction in the art of glassblowing at this vibrant Frisco studio, which doubles as a retail space and community center.

By Terri Cook

New DAM Exhibitions Explore Memory Through Animals

Two current Denver Art Museum exhibits, Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead and Eyes On: Shimabuku, explore ideas of identity, tradition, and inherited memory through the depiction of animals.

By Haley Gray

This Denver Artist is Raising Awareness for Multiple Sclerosis

Sarah Richter uses photography to help others understand how a person with multiple sclerosis perceives the world.

By Kali Robinson

Would You Be Lonely Without Me? Paints Painful Portrait of Life (and Death) Before Roe v. Wade

A new art exhibition at Art Gym Denver honors women who died attempting to terminate their pregnancies before the 1973 legalization of abortion.

By Angela Ufheil

This Month in Colorado Springs, Drinking Beer with Friends Is Art

Tom Marioni will kick off his most well-known exhibit, The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on July 18.

By Will Jarvis

Colorado Artists’ Work to Be Displayed at Korea’s DMZ Museum

A week after President Trump met with North Korea's leader, University of Colorado Boulder professor George Rivera is bringing 117 pieces of local art to the DMZ Museum, just three miles south of the demilitarized zone.

By Jay Bouchard

Escape the Summer Heat at These 9 Art Shows

Because sometimes the view is better inside.

By Daliah Singer

Take a Walking Tour of Denver’s Forgotten Spaces

The immersive theater gurus at Off-Center—a branch of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts—present Remote Denver, an experience that turns all of the city into a stage.

By Angela Ufheil

Jeffrey Gibson’s “Like a Hammer” Is a Celebration of Native American Culture

The contemporary exhibit—which is a coalescing of nearly 60 of Gibson’s abstract sculptures, paintings, and prints from 2011 to present—is on display at the Denver Art Museum's Gallagher Gallery until mid-August.

By Rejena Carmichael

Denver Gets a Happiness Intervention

For the next six weeks, 11 artists from Colorado and beyond will present work across Denver to explore how the city’s design can influence feelings of well-being.

By Angela Ufheil

The Month of Printmaking Makes an Impression This March

This month, celebrate this popular medium by exploring Mo'Print events—from mixers to exhibits, workshops, and more.

By Julia Talen

New Exhibitions Celebrate Unity & Empowerment Through Art

More than 40 local artists and writers will honor the worldwide Women's Marches with three art exhibitions in Colorado.

By Rejena Carmichael

Introducing Odessa, A Nomadic Arts Incubator

The Denver organization has a yearlong curatorial residency at a local studio, and its first show, Sad Magic, opens this month.

By Daliah Singer

How a Blind Photographer Created a New Vision

Nearly 20 years after a car accident left him blind, Ted Tahquechi has transformed his life and career with his family’s help.

By Jay Bouchard

MCA’s Latest Exhibition Grapples with Violence and Grace

Works by painter Cleon Peterson, a mentee of street artist legend Shepard Fairey, will be shown in a museum for the first time, alongside two other powerful exhibits.

By Haley Gray

“Tree of Transformation” Brings Interactive Art to Civic Center Park

The park's first-ever art installation is a musical tree you can visit—and play!—until April 15.

By Daliah Singer

What We Know So Far About Meow Wolf’s Expansion to Denver

The Santa Fe-based arts collective announced Thursday that it would bring its most ambitious project yet to the Mile High City.

By Mike Tish

Local Art is on Display at LoDo’s Newest Hotel

The newly-opened Hotel Born near Union Station hosts a stunning array of original and limited-edition work—much of which is open to the public—created by local and regional artists.

By Priscilla Blossom

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