Colorado’s Platteforum shows that residency programs can be bold when it comes to serving artists and communities
Kealey Boyd
Kealey Boyd is an art historian and writer based in Denver.
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Picturing the Pandemic Through the Lens of Buddhism
Mongolian artist Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu draws upon domestic objects and Buddhist symbolism to show a virtually hyperconnected but physically isolated existence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Abstraction From a Different Origin
Eamon Ore-Giron invites the viewer to consider culture as a collective, living concept that evolves through destabilizing identity.
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Artists in Denver Invite You to Their Yards, Living Rooms, and Skating Rinks
From an art incubator wedged between a train station and stairwell to a roving space where you can skate and look at art, spaces in Colorado’s capital are engaging new audiences through unusual means.
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The Layered History of Japanese Printmaking, Distilled in an Emerald Tapestry
If Hokusai had focused his subject on swirling tide pools instead of “The Great Wave,” it may have felt something like Taiko Chandler’s “Blue Surge.”
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Two Artists Record the Voices of the Silk Road
The Silk Road Songbook’s polyvocal strategies to share diasporic experiences are a radical reversal of what expressions of resistance and persistence are expected to look like.
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Clark Richert, One of Colorado’s Most Prominent Artists, Dies at 80
“He asked a lot of questions and cared about what younger generations thought and were experiencing,” said artist Joseph Coniff, a former student of Richert’s.
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Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
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With a Denver Location, Meow Wolf Expands Its Immersive Schtick
The company’s mastery of the art market’s smoke and mirrors is its most impressive illusion.
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The Silent Lives of Found Photographs
The mind works desperately to fill the gaps in these lost stories.
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A Contemporary Take on Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”
Simphiwe Ndzube masterly weaves Bosch’s iconography into his macabre landscapes that reflect water scarcity.
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The Very Real “Motherhood Penalty” in the Art World
Cultural institutions are constantly draining their talent pool and dismissing this retention problem as a woman’s issue, when it is a structural failure.