88 Search Results for “denver art museum”

  • Part of Jul 2010 by

    Hoarding Is Subject of Objectophilia: Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy exhibits and curates

    Excess can also be found across the street from MCA Denver in the smaller of two venues that play host to Objectophilia, a primarily local artist exhibit curated by Denver artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. In what has become her swan song to Denver, Murphy conceptualized this exhibit during the early days of Biennial planning when Bruce Mau was still involved. Her concept was to create a show that was a More …

  • Part of Jun 2010 by

    Interview with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper

    Editors Note: “Culture first, commerce follows.” So Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper told adobeairstream senior editor Leanne Goebel in Pagosa Springs. They met as Hickenlooper continued his campaigning for governor and talked about instituting a bike share program in Denver, and launching Denver Biennial of the Americas. The Wesleyan trained geologist had Wynkoop Brewing Company and was an entrepreneur involved in selecting the Hamilton wing architect, Daniel Libeskind, who gave Denver More …

  • Part of Apr 2010 by

    Museum Design in the 21st Century Reviewed

    Museum design opened the arena for innovative architecture beginning with Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianos Pompidou Center (Paris, 1977).  The institutions in Museums in the 21st Century at the New Mexico Museum of Art illustrate a wide range of museum types and architectural attitudes.  The exhibit arrays an inspiring display of new architecture presentation,  from tooled museum models to sketches to computer renderings,  drawings, videos and explanatory texts. Models, the More …

  • Part of Mar 2010 by

    Art Critic for Denver Post says ‘Bienniel in Good Hands’

    Kyle McMillan, art critic for the Denver Post, says the dubious Denver Biennial is now in good hands and its time to give the organizers a chance to prove themselves. The curator chosen to handle the visual art portion of this “hemisfair” is Paola Santoscoy, a Mexican curator and writer who has never handled an exhibition of this size, but does have experience working internationally. McMillan observes: The plain-spoken lead More …

  • Part of Nov 2009 by

    New Art in Denver

    There is something cowgirlish in traversing Denver. Up this draw is Rhino, behind that canyon is LoDo, and over yonder is the Santa Fe Arts District. Occasionally, one has to travel to the Golden Triangle or Highlands or Cherry Creek, and those arent even the outlying suburbs of the metro area. Saddle up your pony and put on your walking boots. First stop, Denver Art Museum. If were talking cowboys More …

  • Part of Sep 2009 by

    Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial

    The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. So are conference planners, hotel bookers and purveyors of the creative economy in Mile High City. The Biennial of the Americas, scheduled June 24-August 12, 2010 is a scant 9 months away. It has been characterized by rumors of its pre-term demise, a hide-and-seek between the city and potential exhibitors about More …

  • Part of Sep 2009 by

    Why Minneapolis Outranks Denver Culturally

    Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The top 10 American cities for cultural tourism.  The results. Not surprising? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC are the consecutive top 5. This report based its results on numbers of overnight visits to these cities in 2008, and the number of cultural institutions AOL City Guides lists for each More …

  • Part of Aug 2009 by

    Public Art and Sports Teams: Is Denver Trapped in the Safety Zone?

    Im not a big fan of Jerry Jones, the hovering owner of the Dallas Cowboys who thinks hes as qualified to be on the field coaching as his coaches. But I found a recent quote by him somewhat insightful. “Football is full of the unexpected and the spontaneous-it can make two strangers into friends. Art has the power to do that too, to get people talking, and looking, and interacting.” More …

  • Part of Jul 2009 by

    Aspen Art Report

    When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I knew everything about Herbert Bayer, even though I actually knew very little. The creator of an all-lower-case typeface he used in Bauhaus publications called universal, Bayers life followed a trajectory from Bauhaus graphic designer to New York emigre to Aspen artist who worked in lithography, painting and sculpture – much of the More …

  • Part of Jul 2009 by

    ArtWeek Colorado: Contemporary Art Shows in Denver and Aspen

    “Confluence” at William Havu Gallery in Denver is the first of two group shows the gallery will host featuring regional and national artists involved with abstraction and landscape on differing levels, all deeply rooted in modernism. The first artist group, through July 11, includes: Tracy Felix, Monroe Hodder, Joanne Kerrihard, Amy Metier, Sam Scott, and Richard Thompson (below). The gallery mezzanine features small works by Susan Cooper, “Downsize/upscale.” The works More …

  • Part of Jun 2009 by

    Adam Lerner, MCA Denver’s Animator

    “The board set me up in a really great way,” Adam Lerner told me by telephone from Denver the first week of June. He was referring to the MCAs decision, when they invited Lerner to be director, to effect a merger between the downtown contemporary museum, and Lerners last squeeze, the LAB at Belmar. (The LAB, no longer a physical locale, had been a contemporary art center in a new-urbanist More …

  • Part of Apr 2009 by

    DAM passes on critically acclaimed design exhibition

    Denver Art Museum passes on ambitious European design exhibition for display of rock posters from the 1960s.