88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver)

    William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a Houston-based artist who paints using a complex painting machine and proprietary software designed by the artist. He is represented by Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, which reported to Artdaily that they sold out of all of Betts paintings at the recent Pulse Art Fair in New York. New American Paintings awarded Betts More …

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    Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns as O’Keeffe Museum Curator in Santa Fe

    Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999 1997, resigned that post today, effective immediately, and also relinquished her title and position as Emily Fisher Landau director of the Museum’s O’Keeffe Research Center. Lynes has been recognized as the world’s premier authority on Georgia O’Keeffe, about whom she co-authored the Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne (1999), and wrote the critical work,  O’Keeffe: Stieglitz and the More …

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    Silencing My Linear Self: Richard Tuttle on the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

    Rational thought is overrated. Structured. Ordered. Sequential. Converging to find that one right answer. This was not the process shared by the artist Richard Tuttle during his Logan Lecture at the Denver Art Museum in March. Some would not define it as a lecture or a talk, but instead the ramblings of a non-linear thinker. Tuttle’s thoughts meandered and he struggled to find language to accurately describe his brilliant philosophical More …

  • Part of Jan 2012 by

    Pissing On (or Near) Art at the Clyfford Still Museum

    First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have been handy tools of art. Andy Warhol made piss paintings and Andres Serrano pissed off the Catholic Church with his recently damaged “Piss Christ.” Unfortunately, it appears that Carmen Tisch’s recent drunken escapade at the Clyfford Still Museum was nothing more than the behavior of a woman with an alcohol problem and not, in fact, performance More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    MCA Denver, Exploring the Counterculture (West Coast Style)

    The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, a book and exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Yes, significant moments played out at Woodstock and in Greenwich Village, but the American West allowed for (and provided space for), the counterculture to “drop out” and explore how fully art More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    Best of 2011: Clyfford Still in Denver, De Kooning at MoMA

    On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artist’s work as it developed, in stages, visually highlighting how Still got from landscapes and figures to abstraction. A few days later I was in New York taking in the Willem De Kooning retrospective at MoMA. The retrospective covered De Kooning’s development as a painter from the earliest years until More …

  • Part of Nov 2011 by

    Clyfford Still Museum Opens Friday (Nov. 18) in Denver

    The Clyfford Still Museum opens in Denver Friday and becomes, along with Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a museum destination with the lion’s share of holdings in a single artist’s work. While using percentages to describe artistic inventory always sounds weird to my ears, the Clyfford Still Museum holds 94% of the artist’s lifetime work, representing 60 years of his output from 1925 through the late 1970s (Still stopped More …

  • Part of Nov 2011 by

    Denver Arts Week In Review

    The Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts were awarded November 3 to kick off Denver Arts Week. Mayor Michael Hancock honored the American Indian Galleries at the Denver Art Museum and Phil Bender with the Excellence awards and Veronica Barela with the Legacy Award. Arts Week ends November 12, but it’s not too late to participate. Here’s a selection of things to do as Arts Week comes to a More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    New Formula: Grassroots Arts Philanthropy Booms

    Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from which dusty travelers launched the ambitious start of cultural tourism some 75 years ago.(This story was commissioned by the Santa Fe Reporter where it appeared on the cover on October 19.) Then, last decade, new monikers began cropping up concerning cities. Who’s Your City?, a book written by More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe

    AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October 14-23, 2011. AUSTIN October 14 Yadir Quintana and Matthew Schenning exhibits open at Champion, 800 Brazos St, at E 8th St, through November 12th, 7-9pm. B Scene: Afrobeat, a party, at the Blanton Museum, 2 San Jacinto Blvd, south of E 1st St, 6-10pm, $12. Opening Reception! Opening: The Austin Series, Part IV – Featuring More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Clyfford Still Museum to Open with Fanfare, and Controversy

    On September 22, I took a hard-hat tour of the Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still museum in Denver. The 28,000-square foot, two-story structure— a rooted concrete cube—sits behind its more outlandish neighbor, the Denver Art Museum. By way of  transition,  a pastoral park moves visitors from the glacier-slick surfaces of Daniel Libeskind‘s Hamilton building to the elemental elegance of Cloepfil’s Still museum. The latter is modern, cool, and earthy—Adele to the Hamilton’s Lady More …

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    Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe

    Openings and closings for Austin, Denver and Santa Fe for the weekend of October 7-9, 2011.   AUSTIN October 6 – November 12, 2011 Margaret Meehan, Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm Women and Their Work   October 7-9, 2011 7th Annual Art Outside Apache Pass, Rockdale, TX   CLOSING October 7, 2011 Austin Community College Faculty Exhibit Pump Project Art Complex   CLOSING October 8, 2011 Jennifer Caine Chronotope Co-lab More …