88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

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    Remembering Robin Rule, Denver Gallery Owner

    Robin Rule, the passionate and complicated Denver gallery owner, died of cancer on December 29, 2013, age 55. Her indomitable spirit animated the Denver art world from 1987 to 2013, and her legacy will forever be tied up with the issues of the contemporary art world today in which complex loyalties and the difficulty of maintaining a business as a woman owner without patrons, backers or trust fund still apply. Rule More …

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    Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview

    A Denver Art Preview. From  a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture with abstract line, the first few months of 2014 reveal a span of new art shows in Denver, worth viewing between football games, snowboarding trips and waiting in line at the marijuana shops. The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts January 10 – February 23, 2014 More …

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    Hockney in Frisco, The West on Fifth, Swartz at SMOCA

    Three Exhibits To See in January. David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition Through January 20, 2014 Years, they start passing faster than they used to. I believe it was 2010 when I went with my New York pal JB to Pace Gallery in Chelsea to see what David Hockney was making of his tooling around in Yorkshire, England then externalizing the landscape into frames of paint. Huge canvases, multiple parts. The More …

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    Artist-Technologist Re-Animates Extinct Species

    “New media” is actually middle-aged. It’s been half a century since The Kitchen’s debut in New York; Mark Tribe founded Rhizome dot org in 1996. Kitchen co-founders Woody Vasulka and Steina, residing in Santa Fe since the ‘80s, still create, and they host a massive online archive. Currents is an annual festival of international new media art occurring, for the last six years, at El Museo Cultural and other Santa More …

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    SITE Santa Fe Announces Biannual Series on Art of the Americas, Tilts on North-South Axis

    “A radical rethinking of SITE’s signature exhibition,” and a “reimagined series,” were just two of the phrases that SITE Santa Fe Phillips director and chief curator Irene Hofmann used on Monday night at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion in Santa Fe to describe what will become, in summer 2014, the first of a three-part series of biannual exhibitions focused on contemporary art of the Americas. Replete with a new name and More …

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    Month of Photography Denver

    MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout the city, the suburbs and the region spanning from mid-March to mid-April 2013. Just a few of the exhibitions that are not to be missed: The Reality of Fiction at Redline curated by MoP organizer Mark Sink. Laura Letinsky at the Denver Art Museum Real is a Feeling at Gildar More …

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    How Many Websites Now Cover the Arts in Colorado?

    Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than half of all arts journalism jobs have been eliminated in American newsrooms and according to Pew Research Center, all newsroom jobs have declined More …

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    Best of 2012: Colorado Art in Review

    Looking back over the year that was 2012 what strikes me is the resiliency and determination of artists, makers and creators to continue doing what matters, what has meaning and follow (for lack of a less clichéd word) their passion. While Colorado seemed to spin out of control with tragic forest fires and horrific shootings all while being central to a divisive presidential campaign, the arts and culture remained centrifugal More …

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    M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement

    In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest season prevailed. It’s an idea we still see purported in films and on TV, but in reality, these events are disappearing as the populations of small, rural communities dwindle. However, in Byers, on the eastern plains of Colorado an hour from Denver, the nonprofit arts collective M12 hosted The Big Feed last More …

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    Vincent Van Gogh and Clyfford Still – Painterly Reinventions Explored in Denver

    David Anfam has spent 40 years of his life studying Clyfford Still. On September 14, he gave a lecture at the Denver Art Museum about an exhibition that opened that same day at the Clyfford Still Museum—“Vincent/Clyfford.” The exhibit explores threads between the work of Still and Vincent Van Gogh. (DAM is opening a Denver only exhibition “Becoming Van Gogh,” which highlights 90 artworks that illustrate key developments in in More …

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    ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT – Art Intersecting “Innovation” and Equaling Nothing

    Described as “part freestyle musical theater, part dessert reception,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver created a special event for participants of the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) Summit, held in Denver at the Art Museum August 29-30. Adam Lerner, who sits on the board of COIN and his MCA creative team put together ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT to show that innovative thinking begins with breaking away from conventional ways of seeing the world. Seen More …

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    William Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM

    The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of William Morrow as the Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. The press release sent out late morning on Friday, August 31, states that the museum concluded an extensive international search with his hiring. Morrow’s first project for the museum will be to join the curatorial team for Nick Cave: Sojourn debuting at DAM in June 2013. “William Morrow is More …