Art Feasting in Santa Fe from adobeairstream.com
Place: Santa Fe. Time: A crisp winter’s evening the end of February 2012. It isn’t snowing, the air is dry, cool, as I walk around the plaza, and up on Canyon Road wearing a coat–no hat or gloves are...
View ArticlePlace-less-ness in Suburbia at GOCA Colorado Springs from adobeairstream.com
The downtown annex of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Artis featuring Phil Bender, Christopher Coleman and Michael Salter, Michael Whiting exploring the cultural...
View ArticleYves Saint Laurent: 40 Years of Fashion, Yes, at Denver Art Museum from...
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...
View ArticleMindy Bray: The Geography of Looking from adobeairstream.com
Mindy Bray’s ink and gouache works on stretched paper explore the physical and psychological experience of landscape. Images of mountain environments are reduced to fragmented fields of shape and color...
View ArticleSilencing 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...
View ArticleRemotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver) from...
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...
View ArticleAbstract Angus – Theodore Waddell at Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
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...
View ArticleMen of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca from...
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...
View ArticlePhenomenal: Light Maestro James Turrell Paired with Colorado Sculptor Scott...
Trace Elements: Light Into Space by James Turrell pairs the internationally known light-and-space artist with Colorado College professor and sculptor Scott Johnson, at the Colorado Springs Fine Art...
View ArticleFilmmaker Stan Brakhage Inspires “Visual Rhythm” at BMOCA from...
Visual Rhythm at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA) eases viewers into the world of experimental film, video and digital art—an experience that can be immersive. The exhibition links recent...
View ArticleThe Book of Mormon Debuts in Denver (and leaves one thinking politics) from...
“You and me, but mostly me Are gonna change the world forever ‘Cause I can do most everything (And I can stand next to you and watch) And now we’re seeing eye to eye It’s so great, we can agree That...
View ArticleWorking in Mysterious Ways, “Continental Drift” Spotlights Contemporary...
On June 30, 2011 I received a request for proposals and call to artists from Nora Burnett Abrams, associate curator at MCA/Denver, for a joint Colorado exhibition to be held at MCA and the Aspen Art...
View ArticleRicky Allman – “I’ll Capitulate if you Succumb” – Marine Contemporary
I was privileged to be acknowledged in Marine Contemporary‘s catalog for Ricky Allman’s recent exhibition. The show–(with a terrific title)–”I’ll Capitulate if you Succumb,” was Allman’s first solo...
View ArticleWilliam Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM from...
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,...
View ArticleALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT – 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,...
View ArticleVisual Extirpation in the Paintings of Armin Muhsam
There is a visual mystery to the sparse landscapes painted by Armin Mühsam. The works are austere, yet achingly beautiful, capturing the light and shadows of what might be America or a place entirely...
View Article2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 13,000 views in 2012....
View ArticleLeanne Goebel on the Roaring Success Radio Show
Roaring Success Jan. 9, 2013 Click on the link above to listen to my discussion about ColoradoCreates.com and the Creative Industries beginning at 5:05 through 9:49 from the Roaring Success Radio Show.
View ArticleVincent Van Gogh and Clyfford Still – Painterly Reinventions Explored in...
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...
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