88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

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    Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum

    Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum and has curated nine exhibitions there since 1989, including Inspiring Impressionism, El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection and Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums. Becoming Van Gogh examines the evolution of the largely self-taught artist through more than 70 paintings and drawings, More …

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    Men of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca

    The Fuse Box Gallery on level four of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building is all angles with slanted walls and sloping ceiling, as designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. A walk-through installation conceived by artist Laleh Mehran interacts with Libeskind’s angles by placing a large, black, acrylic cube near the far end of the long, tilted space. Mehran’s installation is attentive to the most sacred site in Islam–the The walk More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    Abstract Angus – Theodore Waddell at Denver Art Museum

    Theodore Waddell arrived in New York to study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the early 1960s, a decade after abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell began changing the art world. Artists of Waddell’s generation, 10  years into AbEx’s reach and ahead of pop, were either reacting against the theories – or embracing them. Waddell was only in Brooklyn for a year before returning home More …

  • Part of Apr 2012 by

    Yves Saint Laurent: 40 Years of Fashion, Yes, at Denver Art Museum

    Fashion as art is nothing new. The first exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a living artist happened in 1983 when Diana Vreeland organized Yves Saint Laurent for the Costume Institute. In 2011, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty became the best attended exhibition in the Met’s history. The populism of fashion and design as art displayed in art museums is far more accepted these days More …

  • Part of Apr 2011 by

    Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!

    Denver Art Museum ends its first exhibition ever of electronic media, Blink! on May 1. The exhibition, curated by Jill Desmond, includes 55 works, 40 from the DAM collection. DAM began collecting electronic and new media art in 1982 when former curator of modern and contemporary art, Diane Vanderlip, purchased Chryssa’s “Study for the Gates, No 5.” A few years later Vanderlip was instrumental in acquiring Gary Emrich’s “Gray Zone,” More …

  • Part of Mar 2009 by

    Denver Art Museum Hamilton Wing

    Conrad Skinners videotape of the Hamilton Wing at Denver Art Museum by architect Daniel Libeskind.

  • Part of Jul 2010 by

    Face to Face at the Denver Arts Museum: Portraits Up Close

    It is no coincidence that Richard Phillips “Mirror,” a 1998 charcoal and chalk on paper drawing from the Kent and Vicki Logan collection, is the drawing hung beneath the title of the exhibit: Face | Face (the second Face is flipped horizontally appearing backwards as if seen in a mirror).  The portrait is of a hand holding a mirror and reflected in that round mirror is the face of a More …

  • Part of Jan 2022 by

    Jordan Casteel at New Museum (Feb. 2020)

    Harlem-based painter Jordan Casteel shared the marquee of a dual solo, two simultaneous one-artist painter shows that opened at the New Museum last month. The Denver-born and Yale MFA artist had a solo exhibit last year at Denver Art Museum. A residency at Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015 found her refining her approach to her subjects, an approach which appears deliberately random in the art-historical sense of random meetings More …

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    Report from Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, Design by Shigeru Ban, Opens

    Shigeru Ban is this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize; has an upcoming appearance in Prospect 3, the New Orleans biennial; and on August 9th saw the public opening of his Aspen Art Museum many years in the planning. The coverage of the building got fast-reduced to the snap over tortoises, whom artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Moving Ghost Town” exhibit had constrained to carry iPads on their backs in a rooftop More …

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    Walt Pourier: Artist Stronghold for Native Youth

    Walt Pourier’s head and his pillow must rarely meet. He is the executive director of the Stronghold Society which, in a nutshell, is a suicide prevention organization, but is better summed up by their description: “Live Life Call to Action Campaigns”; he is the creative director and owner at Nakota Designs; he builds skate parks on native reservations and throws skate competitions and concerts; and he has been recognized by More …

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    New Affordable Housing, When the Working Poor Are Artists

    On January 8th, Artspace, the Minneapolis-based developer of affordable artists’ housing nationwide, visited Santa Fe for a public event hosted by Creative Santa Fe, its local nonprofit partner. That followed closely on Artspace getting the green light from the El Paso, Texas city council for a 51-unit affordable artists’ lofts project. Now Artspace and the El Paso Community Foundation will be taking that proposal to competitive application for federal tax More …

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    Is Gender Bias in Denver Arts in Transit — Or Fixed?

    When I first read Ray Mark Rinaldi’s review of “The Transit of Venus” exhibition at RedLine, I was astonished at the biased perspective of this major voice for art in Denver. He labeled the show “the girliest art exhibit . . . ever seen in Colorado.” But, to be fair, his first sentence, “At the risk of offending women — all women, in general; thinking women, in particular . . .” More …