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.
Kealey Boyd
Kealey Boyd is a writer and art critic. Her writing appears in the LATimes, Art Papers, College Art Association, The Belladonna Comedy, Artillery Magazine and elsewhere. She teaches journalism at University of Colorado-Boulder and serves as art consultant to the national literary journal Copper Nickel.
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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.
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Maia Ruth Lee’s Artworks Pick Up Where Language Falls Short
In The Language of Grief, Lee’s canvases read like a fragmentary novel, building out the story of a year through mundane bits and extraordinary pieces.
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The Little-known, Refreshingly Vulnerable Works of Clyfford Still’s Final Years
The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland offers a historical pivot by focusing on the last 20 years of the artist’s life, revealing his most productive period and foregrounding work that is rarely discussed.
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A Closer Look at China’s Most Enigmatic, and Most Copied, Artist
Despite his iconic status, unresolved questions around Qiu Ying persist.
