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How Many Websites Now Cover the Arts in Colorado?
March 6, 2013, 3 Comments

Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to ...

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Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger
January 30, 2013, No Comments

Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Whe ...

El Anatsui, Rain Has No Father?, 2008. Found bottle tops with copper wire; 158 x 237 in. Denver Art Museum; funds from Native Arts acquisition fund, U.S. Bank Colorado, Douglas Society, DAM Volunteer Endowment, African-American Outreach Committee and private individuals.
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
January 15, 2013, No Comments

In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created ...

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Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review
December 26, 2012, 1 Comment

Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, makers and crea ...

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Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped
December 3, 2012, No Comments

Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now living in Cali ...

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$1.76 Billion in Arts and-Cultural Economic Activity in Denver in 2011
November 19, 2012, 1 Comment

According to the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts–the numbers don’t lie: In 2011 Denver metro-area arts ...

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Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum
November 15, 2012, 1 Comment

Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator o ...

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M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement
October 17, 2012, 2 Comments

In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest season prevailed. It ...