Art
An Artist Uses Buddhist Iconography to Engage in a Political Debate Around Tibet
Tenzing Rigdol enters a political debate that is disruptive, slippery, and without comparison in Tibetan contemporary art.
Denver
Art
Paintings that Capture Our Ever-Changing Perceptions of Boyhood
Enrique Martínez Celaya distills how the concept of "the boy" changes with judgement and time, just as painting itself is linked to materials and history.
Art
Bringing Our Social Media Spaces and Selves into the Gallery
An exhibition at the University of Denver features installations that substitute digital spaces and images for embodied replicas, and vice versa.
Art
At the Denver Airport, Art Fuels Conspiracy Theorists
The city of Denver is considering deaccessioning one of the most ambitious installations at its airport, but its art collection has long served as a source of inspiration and consternation.
Art
A DIY Space Is Forced to Close in Denver Amid the Post-Ghost Ship Crackdown
Residents of Rhinoceropolis, a seminal art space and DIY music venue, were kicked out of the warehouse complex last month over "serious fire code violations."
Art
Decoding Painted Constellations of Tiny, Mysterious Symbols
The centerpiece of Jonathan Saiz's show at Leon Gallery in Denver is a vast grid of 901 tiny paintings, the circles drawn around them and strings stretched between them evoking a conspiracy theorist's obtuse research.
Art
A Garden of Ceramic Delights
Kim Dickey's exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is a strange environment of animals, plants, gardens, and floral forms rendered in clay.
Art
Fake Ruins Beneath a Denver Bus Station
Beneath a disused bus station in downtown Denver, the Mexican artist collective SANGREE has shed light on the ruins of an ancient condominium complex that never existed.
Interview
Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on 'Women of Abstract Expressionism'
DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original.
Art
A Private Collection Dedicated to Conceptual and Cumbersome Art
DENVER – Over the last 18 years, a small but loud contemporary art collection has been brewing in the Mile High City, with a mission to bring together artists’ most difficult pieces.
Art
Painting Artforum, Cover to Cover
DENVER — With each passing decade, the images and advertisements in the monthly art magazine Artforum slowly shifted from black and white to color.
Art
Dismantling the Conventions of Monuments
DENVER — Define monument art. Is it distinguished by its material, size, or relationship to a specific event?