Tag: Artist
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deadmau5 bringing new stage design, music and free meet-and-greets to two-day Red Rocks run
While Joel Zimmerman — better known as the man under the signature mouse helmet and moniker, ‘deadmau5’ — is making a familiar return to Red Rocks for two nights, Nov. 7th and 8th, he will be missing an iconic piece of his act. Zimmerman has officially retired, ‘the Cube’, an elevated, LED-paneled, rotating stage that…
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‘Portal of imagination’: Colorado artist creates whimsical Hobbit houses
Stephen Swofford stephen.swofford@gazette.com LITTLETON • After following the stone path to the storybook cottage, I step through the carved round door, as if walking into a fairy tale. A tree stands at the heart of the earthen playhouse, surrounded by caramel wooden panels embellished with paintings and mystical decorations. Light peeks through the sunroofs and…
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The medium of temporality: Denver Chalk Art Festival returns for 23rd year
It was not yet 9 a.m. on Saturday, and Acoma Street was already becoming a canvas. Groups of people, many wearing salmon-red event T-shirts with the word “artist” on the back, used rollers to paint a solid liquid chalk background in 8-foot by 8-foot squares denoted by painter’s tape on the pavement. Others, down on…
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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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Denver holds first annual Korean Culture Festival
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Booming drums occupied the soundscape of the Tivoli Quad at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, as hundreds watch, crowding around the roaming band. The band, part of the Hansori Cultural Organization of Fort Collins, was one of many artists to perform at the first…
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Denver approves new art contracts for DIA, decides to preserve historic Cole neighborhood building
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save No, Blucifer won’t be getting a little brother but travelers at Denver International Airport will be able to enjoy several new works of art soon. That’s after Denver City Council Monday approved three contracts worth more than $7.5 million that will bring three new sculptures…
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Cavalryman statue toppled during 2020 Denver protests finally has a home
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After two years of having nowhere to go, Colorado’s U.S. Cavalryman statue finally has a home. The 8-foot bronze statue of an armed cavalry soldier will move from its temporary perch in the lobby of History Colorado to a spot in front of the Department…
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RiNo ArtPark ready for September opening
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A community center and small park rose from a distinctly industrial site on 35th Street in Denver’s River North (RiNo) neighborhood because of the combined efforts of the City of Denver, nonprofit organizations and the arts set there. Near the banks of the South Platte…
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Former Colorado College running back, NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Steve Sabol was the subject of a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in November 1965. That issue, which featured Muhammad Ali on the cover of the weekly magazine, told the story of how Sabol, a Colorado College running back via Philadelphia marketed himself as “The Tot from Possum Trot,” a fictional town in Mississippi, “The…
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Meow Wolf Denver looks to fall opening
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The long-awaited interactive art and entertainment venue Meow Wolf Denver is set to open this fall, the company announced Wednesday. It will be the Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company’s third permanent exhibition. Its Las Vegas Omega Mart opened in February, and has sold out…