Tag: Art
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South Pearl Street fairy doors fascinate neighborhood with whimsical miniatures
If you’re walking along South Pearl Street in Denver, keep your eyes peeled along the trims of doors. There, where the street meets the walls of storefronts, are entrances into tiny worlds. From shrunken storefronts with a purple door and gray brick to hobbit-style moss hideaways, you’ll find nearly two dozen “fairy doors” along the…
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National parks are fantasy worlds in the maps of a Colorado artist
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Not long ago in his parents’ Colorado Springs home, a young man came by his boyhood pen. This was the Lamy Safari Fountain pen Alex Burden had used some 20 years ago during elementary school in Germany. “The last time I used one was in…
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‘An exercise in the absurd’: This whimsical art center in Salida is all about the unexpected
SALIDA • Ken Brandon often will hear chatter about his square building on the corner, marked in the parking lot by a purple gypsy wagon, a dragon, a robot and a big, rusted drill labeled Astro Auger, among other things speaking to no certain business here. Passersby might spot the words on the wall: Box…
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Inside Salida’s ‘Box of Bubbles’
Located in Salida, Colo., ‘Box of Bubbles’ is a whimsical artist resource center and gallery created by Ken Brandon. Within this eclectic space, Brandon fosters a safe haven for creative pursuits, describing it as “an exercise in the absurd.” (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)
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As Colorado master retires, ski map art lives on
In 2015, Rad Smith nervously emailed James Niehues. “What do I have to lose?” Smith recalled thinking. “He may or may not get back to me.” Over three decades, Niehues had become famous as the painter behind ski area maps in Colorado and around the world. The blue sky, the white powder, the trees and…
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Ghanaian painter drawing international acclaim brings exhibit to Denver Art Museum
Tom Hellauer/Denver Gazette As renowned Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo brings his exhibition titled “Soul of Black Folks” — a nod to the W.E.B. Du Bois book of the same name —to the Denver Art Museum this week, Director Christoph Heinrich reflected on the project’s path to Denver. “It really only took us a few moments…
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‘It gives us something positive’: Nuggets mural on Colfax grows to four players
With just two hours to go before Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the mural artist Detour painted Michael Porter Jr.’s teeth ice-blue. In what is beginning to look like Denver’s own version of Mt. Rushmore, Detour — aka Thomas Evans — flirted with oncoming rainstorms to get Porter’s mound of black hair on the top…
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Denver Art Museum reopens three exhibits to the public this weekend
The Denver Art Museum is set to unveil three reinstalled collections Sunday in its Hamilton Building. The newly reinstalled collections include Arts of Africa, Modern and Contemporary Art and Arts of Oceania. These collections haven’t been open to the public since 2016, when the museum began construction on the Hamilton Building.
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WATCH: New exhibit highlights indigenous photographers at Denver Art Museum
The new exhibit, titled, “Speaking With Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography,” features more than 30 photographers, and is a mix of well established and up-and-coming artists, according to the museum. The exhibit is open until May 22nd.