Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation.
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The Untold History of Japan’s Women Artists
Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight: great women artists existed everywhere at all times.
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Latinidad On Its Own Terms
Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art explores contemporary Latin American art without conforming to external expectations.
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Reframed
A new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum renders the artist’s persona through newly identified photographs.
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The Lasting Influence of La Malinche, the Nahua Translator
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of Malinche prompts new conversations about one Indigenous woman’s turbulent story.
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After Pandora Papers Revelations, Denver Art Museum Will Restitute Four Looted Artifacts to Cambodia
The decision follows discoveries in the leaked Pandora Papers regarding antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford.
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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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Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
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In 1972, Snow Monkeys Were Sent to a Texas Desert. Do They Still Remember Snow?
Curious if the monkeys’ memory of snow remained decades later, artist Shimabuku brought a pile of it to the desert.
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After Teen Smashes Artifacts at Denver Museum, Damages Estimate of $2M Turned Out to Be $100,000
In December, 18-year-old Jake Siebenlist smashed glass containers at the Denver Art Museum, throwing rare ancient artifacts across the exhibition.
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Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History
The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.
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Charting New Territory in Landscape Photography
Most surprising in the Denver Art Museum’s current landscape photography show is the number of photographers who never enter the landscape, introducing new relationships within the genre and medium.
