Author: Colleen Smith Special to The Denver Gazette
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Painter Lorenzo Chavez marks 4 decades in his peaceful “Western”
Lorenzo Chavez’s solo show at Abend Gallery in Cherry Creek North celebrates his four decades as a professional artist. Titled “A Road Less Traveled,” the show opens Feb. 10 and runs through Mar. 2. For his milestone exhibit, Chavez’s 17 new landscapes are mounted in the gallery across the street from where he first showed…
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Mother Nature’s coloring book open at science museum
The full-spectrum palette of Mother Nature’s paint box is on display in “Wild Color,” a temporary exhibit now at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS). The show, created by Chicago’s Field Museum, was augmented by DMNS to draw attention to the Mile High City’s status as one of the planet’s rare areas for…
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Denver developer John W. Madden Jr. built a legacy
Editor’s note: John Madden died Friday, his family confirmed. This story originally published on Dec. 1. John W. Madden Jr. enjoys his enviable views of 150 miles of Colorado’s Front Range, as he looks back on his long and illustrious life. Madden, 94, is in hospice care at his home in Greenwood Village, the south…
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Denver Art Museum a world leader in North American Native arts
The Denver Art Museum, owing to visionary curation beginning in 1925, proudly houses one of the world’s largest collections of North American Indigenous arts. The DAM initiated the collection early in its institutional history, recognizing the aesthetic merits of Native arts when other museums deemed such works as mere artifacts. “Our collection never put a…
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Cherry Creek Arts Festival back in full force for July Fourth weekend: “Art can be so healing”
“Art,” claimed Pablo Picasso, “washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” With mass shootings, the ongoing pandemic, war in Ukraine, wildfires and political upheaval, we’ve all recently had our share of dust. The Cherry Creek Arts Festival is back in full force this weekend as a summery feather duster for the masses.…
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Decorated sculptor showcased at Botanic Gardens
Sometimes, the most brilliant people have overcome the darkest past. For the celebrated American artist Ursula von Rydingsvard — whose solo exhibition opens to the public Saturday April 30 at Denver Botanic Gardens — being born in Germany in 1942, during World War II, presented a horrific start to life. The extraordinary artist is…
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A tragic fall for a towering Denver sculptor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Yoshitomo Saito, a bronze sculptor based in Denver, took 10 years to create the works for “Of Sky and Ground,” an exhibition of his nature poetry series shown in the indoor galleries at Denver Botanic Gardens recently. The sculptor acknowledged the exhibit as a culmination…
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Denver woman safeguards world coffee crops
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What if your morning coffee were no longer available? Coffee — America’s most popular beverage — could be in hot water, so to speak. Grown only in limited tropical locales around the globe, Coffea plants…