The city’s murals are more than cultural aesthetics; they are living texts, a multimodal composition based on tlacuilolitztli, the Aztec concept of writing.
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Denver Museum to Shutter 45-Year-Old “Racist” Exhibition
The Denver Museum of Science & Nature said its Native cultures display perpetuates harmful stereotypes and includes objects taken without consent.
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Colorado Artists Shine in Massive Exhibition
Breakthroughs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver showcases the work of 18 alumni of RedLine, a local arts nonprofit celebrating its 15th anniversary.
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What Survivance Means for Indigenous Artists
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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Denver Art Museum Presents Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection
The exhibition showcases more than 100 works of painting, calligraphy, and ceramics from the 1600s to 1900s, with many on public view for the first time.
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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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What Makes a Good Arts District?
Along Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row, development has pushed out several art spaces during the last decade, resulting in a “manufactured” arts district.
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Juan Fuentes’s Lexicon of Longing
Born in Mexico and raised in Denver, the artist has never been able to visit his family on the other side of the border.
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The Dirty South Comes to Denver
Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.
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Taking Landscape Painting to New Heights
Beau Carey and Ian Fishers’ exhibition considers our relationship to the earth, from the top down.
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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.
