Tag: Artist
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Long-awaited Leonardo da Vinci Museum opens this week in downtown Pueblo
After years of discussion and planning, the long-awaited official opening of North America’s only permanent Leonardo da Vinci Museum will take place with a two-day celebration beginning Friday. The museum, near the Riverwalk in the heart of downtown Pueblo, is one of only six in the world, including Italy, France, South Korea, Australia and Brazil.…
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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 [email protected] 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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Stiles African American Heritage Center celebrates achievements of Barney Ford
Museum creates new space for Denver legend
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Catrinas in my city: A head start for Day of the Dead in Denver
Los Angeles artist brings Dia De Los Muertos to Denver
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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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Meow Wolf’s bizarre ‘Absolute Rubbish’ fashion show redefines recycling
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Inside Denver’s unconventional ‘Trashion Show’