Tag: Art
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Meow Wolf ready to launch immersive performances with cosmic-costumes and interdimensional dance
Revamped and returning for its second year, Meow Wolf’s wonderfully-weird live performance “Phenomenomaly” will run Wednesdays through Sundays from June 5 through Aug. 9. Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station, its aptly-named Denver location, is 90,000 square feet of more than 70 out-of-this-world art installations. On Friday, it will also begin a five-day-a-week dazzling live performance that…
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Denver Botanic Gardens opens a world-class Jaume Plensa art exhibit
‘A New Humanism’ urges peace, celebrates pluralism On Saturday, as part of this year’s 75th anniversary celebration, the Denver Botanic Gardens opens the first U.S. retrospective of the internationally revered multidisciplinary artist Jaume Plensa. The indoor-outdoor exhibition titled “A New Humanism” runs through Sept. 7 and includes roughly 30 works by the Spanish artist best…
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Rocky Flats: Art from the atomic ashes
Jeff Gipe’s ‘Half-Life of Memory’ brings our own public health disaster back home to the Arvada Center Growing up, when my dad took the family to the company picnic, it meant roller coasters and miniature golf at Elitch Gardens. Then again, my dad worked for The Denver Post. Here’s what happened when Jeff Gipe’s dad…
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PIKES PICK: Colorado ranching art in Fremont Center for the Arts
See art with a history of ranching and a Colorado heritage in a changing landscape, a solo exhibition by Florence-based artist Rudl R. Mergelman. A family history near Gunnison and Blue Mesa Reservoir. Fremont Center for the Arts in Canon City, reception at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and runs through April 3. 719-275-2790
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Wanna get away? Snow geese in Lamar, chocolate in Estes Park and live music at Red Rocks among weekend options around Colorado
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HIGH PLAINS SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL: One of the state’s largest birding events returns to the eastern plains, drawing visitors eager to witness thousands of snow geese and other migratory birds along the Western Central Flyway. Through Sunday, the four-day festival around Lamar offers tours, programs and prime viewing opportunities. WINE & CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL: Come for…
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Denver International Airport ranks among airports with best art in U.S.
USA Today’s 10Best recently released their picks for the 10 best airports for art, and one Colorado airport made the list. USA Today’s 10Best is a readers’ choice awards program that highlights the best in destinations, food and drink, hotels, and things to do. Nominees are selected by an expert panel and readers vote to…
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The Kirkland at Denver Art Museum sets an artful holiday table
Festively set Thanksgiving dinner tables tend to bring out the best from cupboards and china cabinets. The finest dishes, cutlery and stemware set the table for memorable holiday meals. “When you take the time to set a table, make each place setting and choose what dishes you want to show off, it makes the event…
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Taken to (art) school by a couple of kids
Siblings, ages 9 and 10, unlock the mysteries of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro, subject of a major exhibit the Denver Art Museum When it comes to the artist Camille Pissarro, I am not smarter than a fifth grader. But I am smart enough to ask a fifth grader. I’m not going to lie: When I…
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An open-air art gallery: Hogan Park at Highlands Creek
Welcome to Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, a 100-acre space where plans call for a disc golf course, a zip line and a climbing wall. If that sounds like any number of new parks these days, take a closer look. Just off the paved trail winding through the park stands a polished steel sculpture of…
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New era on the horizon for World’s Wonder View Tower of Colorado
GENOA • On that family road trip across Colorado’s plains in 2013, it would’ve been easy to drive by this no-stoplight town with no sign of any business, other than the grain elevator at the edge of a dirt road and junkyards and abandoned, crumbling storefronts. But then there was a surprising sight there off…