88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

  • Part of Sep 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays: Santa Fe, Austin, Denver

    Gallery events, exhibition openings/closings, and lectures for Santa Fe, Austin, and Denver.   SANTA FE Many gallery openings take place tonight in Santa Fe. For Santa Feans tonight would be a great time to gallery hop! Tonight, Eight Modern OPENS Michelle Cooke, Lora Fosberg and Shaun Gilmore. Also, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Gallery OPENS Prints, Contemporary Masters II with George Condo, Richard Diebenkorn, Anish Kapoor, Roy Lichtenstein and Ed Ruscha More …

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    Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe

    What’s happening this weekend? More like, what isn’t happening!   AUSTIN Well, the first event isn’t a fine art-related item, but Austin’s completely MUSIC-focused, because Austin City Limits Festival, OPENS at Zilker Park this weekend, September 16 – 18. A2’s Don Simpson posted about Metro Area, for which we gave away two free concert tickets, too. September 17, Hank Waddell’s exhibit OPENS at Co-Lab Project Space, through September 24th. And, More …

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    Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe

    Zozobra, fiestas in Santa Fe, and ACL and Wild Frontier Festival in Austin—so many festivals, parties and events are going off this weekend. So, let’s get right to it. SANTA FE September 9, tonight, Hip Hop Hope OPENING exhibition and dance party starts at 6 pm with Monkia Bravo and Greg Sholette at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Also, SFAI will have a reading and film screening, including a film More …

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    The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, CO

    Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Matisse and David Hockney. Edward Hopper chose a train car filled with mostly empty dark green chairs, focusing on a blonde female figure for his painting “Chair Car.” An exhibit currently open at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Art in Pagosa Springs, called “The Chair” hearkens back to these traditions. But the subject More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    Denver Selects Sotheby’s to Sell Clyfford Still Paintings

    Bloomberg reports that the City of Denver, where the Clyfford Still museum will open November 18, 2011, has chosen Sotheby’s to sell four paintings by Clyfford Still through either a private sale or public auction. The proceeds from the sale of works originally part of Patricia Still’s estate will be sold to benefit the museum endowment. Sotheby’s guaranteed the city $25 million and Bloomberg says Sotheby’s could earn as much More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All

    Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of decadent Parisians…Picasso and Cezanne..has even been felt in the West. Santa Fe has been damaged by it and Denver has not wholly escaped the blight… . In Western art, Western literature and bourbon, I’ll take mine straight,” wrote Lee Casey in The Rocky Mountain News on February 11, 1948. Some still feel More …

  • Part of Jul 2011 by

    “The Champagne-Tinged” Art Santa Fe Falls Flat

    Art Santa Fe is a Charlotte Jackson joint; the art dealer based in the Railyard business district has been at this running of the fair for 11 years.

  • Part of Jun 2011 by

    Libby Lumpkin Picks Urbane and Quirky Art for New Mexorado

    From the Harwood Museum Website: Libby Lumpkin, art historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and art theory at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, served as the primary juror. “Although most of the submissions were relatively traditional in terms of media, the intentions and sensibilities of the artists ranged widely, from sophisticated and urbane to really ‘out there’ quirky,” Ms. Lumpkin said. “Some of the quirkiest were just too More …

  • Part of Oct 2010 by

    Review: Contemporary Art & Architecture in Denver

    Walking up a stretch of Santa Fe Drive Arts District past Mexican and Ethiopian restaurants and tattoo shops on a Wednesday, one could wonder: is this the same stretch that sees throngs on first Fridays? Ostensibly and  practically, yes. The first-Friday art walks are boons to visibility and local attendance but imply other limitations: That “staffs” of art galleries, particularly co-ops, are mainly volunteer – after the first Friday is More …

  • Part of Sep 2010 by

    University of Colorado in Boulder unveils its new Visual Arts Complex

    In 1939, the University of Colorado began amassing a permanent art collection as a teaching tool – and, since the 1980s, stored the works, some 6,000 strong, in a climate-controlled vault. Now University has unveiled its art collections new home – a  project largely made possible through an increase in student fees that CU assessed in order to create this new building as a cornerstone of its arts education programs. More …

  • Part of Aug 2010 by

    Postcommodity at Museum of Contemporary Native Art

    While driving from Denver back to Santa Fe, I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, “To The Best of Our Knowledge.” The discussion constellated around national parks, exile, “wilderness,” and specifically the imposed definition, by white people, that “wilderness” ever implied absence of human habitation. Mark Dowie wrote a book on this, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples (MIT Press, 2009) — and More …

  • Part of Jul 2010 by

    Report from Santa Fe Art Fairs Season

    “I would congratulate the organizers because they really did a fabulous job,” said Linda Durham talking about SoFa West (run by Mark Lyman) and her appreciation that the fairs print advertising showcased Kumquat:Nagami by artist John Tinker, a sculpture of a long stemmed acid-green fruit on a perch. Exhibiting that in her booth along with artists Erika Wanenmachers studded black body cast and Marty Horwitzs gold pillows may have led More …