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Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac
February 2, 2012, No Comments

During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road  by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll ...

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Pissing On (or Near) Art at the Clyfford Still Museum
January 10, 2012, No Comments

First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have bee ...

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2012 Preview: Yves Saint Laurent, as Apres-Ski?
January 1, 2012, No Comments

The Denver Art Museum is the only scheduled U.S. venue in 2012 for two exhibitions imagined as crowd-sources: Yves Saint ...

Richard Kallweit, Ultimate Painting, 1966 in front of Theatre Dome at Drop City.tiff
MCA Denver, Exploring the Counterculture (West Coast Style)
December 30, 2011, 1 Comment

The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and the Cou ...

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Best of 2011: Clyfford Still in Denver, De Kooning at MoMA
December 26, 2011, No Comments

On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artis ...

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Clyfford Still Museum Opens Friday (Nov. 18) in Denver
November 16, 2011, No Comments

The Clyfford Still Museum opens in Denver Friday and becomes, along with Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a museum ...

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Still Standing at Sotheby’s – Abstract Pays for Concrete
November 9, 2011, 4 Comments

Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings by Still ...

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Denver Arts Week In Review
November 7, 2011, No Comments

The Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts were awarded November 3 to kick off Denver Arts Week. Mayor Michael Hanc ...

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New Formula: Grassroots Arts Philanthropy Booms
October 24, 2011, 4 Comments

Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
October 14, 2011, No Comments

AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October ...

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Clyfford Still Museum to Open with Fanfare, and Controversy
October 12, 2011, 3 Comments

On September 22, I took a hard-hat tour of the Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still museum in Denver. The 28,000-square ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
October 7, 2011, 1 Comment

Openings and closings for Austin, Denver and Santa Fe for the weekend of October 7-9, 2011.   AUSTIN October 6 R ...

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Robert Adams Photography at DAM: A Bodhisattva Sees the West
October 2, 2011, No Comments

Photographer Robert Adams is a bodhisattva to the American West: “I want to make accurate photographs of the western l ...

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Gallery Fridays: Santa Fe, Austin, Denver
September 30, 2011, 1 Comment

Gallery events, exhibition openings/closings, and lectures for Santa Fe, Austin, and Denver.   SANTA FE Many galler ...

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How Design for the Other 90 Percent Applies to Colorado
September 19, 2011, No Comments

We live in a world filled with cool products and great design. I love my iPhone, desire an iPad and remain happy each da ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
September 16, 2011, No Comments

What’s happening this weekend? More like, what isn’t happening!   AUSTIN Well, the first event isn’t ...

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Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe
September 9, 2011, No Comments

Zozobra, fiestas in Santa Fe, and ACL and Wild Frontier Festival in Austin—so many festivals, parties and events are g ...

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The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, CO
September 5, 2011, 1 Comment

Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Ma ...

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Denver Selects Sotheby’s to Sell Clyfford Still Paintings
August 23, 2011, 2 Comments

Bloomberg reports that the City of Denver, where the Clyfford Still museum will open November 18, 2011, has chosen Sothe ...

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15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of d ...

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“The Champagne-Tinged” Art Santa Fe Falls Flat
July 12, 2011, 18 Comments

Art Santa Fe is a Charlotte Jackson joint; the art dealer based in the Railyard business district has been at this runni ...

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Libby Lumpkin Picks Urbane and Quirky Art for New Mexorado
June 18, 2011, No Comments

From the Harwood Museum Website: Libby Lumpkin, art historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and ar ...

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Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!
April 26, 2011, No Comments

Denver Art Museum ends its first exhibition ever of electronic media, Blink! on May 1. The exhibition, curated by Jill D ...

Arlene Shechet. Studio view, New York, 1997. Hydrocal, acrylic paint skins, found furniture.
The “Piss In”: NCECA’s Critical Santa Fe symposium
October 31, 2010, No Comments

SANTA FE-There was a rumble or three at the NCECA Critical Santa Fe symposium, as Garth Clark played human trip-wire dur ...

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Review: Contemporary Art & Architecture in Denver
October 24, 2010, 1 Comment

Walking up a stretch of Santa Fe Drive Arts District past Mexican and Ethiopian restaurants and tattoo shops on a Wednes ...

Enrique Chagoya : "Illegal Alien's Guide to Somewhere Over the Rainbow": 2010
Enrique Chagoya in Loveland, CO
October 5, 2010, 1 Comment

On Sunday morning if you were watching “This Week with Christiane Amanpour”  you would have heard the bells ...

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Interview: Isca Greenfield-Sanders
October 2, 2010, No Comments

Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks will be presented in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Gallery at the Museum ...

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University of Colorado in Boulder unveils its new Visual Arts Complex
September 25, 2010, 1 Comment

In 1939, the University of Colorado began amassing a permanent art collection as a teaching tool – and, since the ...

The sound and multimedia installation of "If History Moves At the Speed of its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing (2010)"
Postcommodity at Museum of Contemporary Native Art
August 30, 2010, 2 Comments

While driving from Denver home to Santa Fe I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, To The Best of Our Knowle ...

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Face to Face at the Denver Arts Museum: Portraits Up Close
July 27, 2010, No Comments

It is no coincidence that Richard Phillips “Mirror,” a 1998 charcoal and chalk on paper drawing from the K ...

John Tinker "Kumquat", 2008
Report from Santa Fe Art Fairs Season
July 18, 2010, No Comments

“I would congratulate the organizers because they really did a fabulous job,” said Linda Durham talking abou ...

Phil Bender, "Bathtub with Christmas Ornaments," 2010, Found Objects
Hoarding Is Subject of Objectophilia: Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy exhibits and curates
July 18, 2010, No Comments

Excess can also be found across the street from MCA Denver in the smaller of two venues that play host to Objectophilia, ...

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Edward Ranney’s New World Landscapes: Shaping Culture
July 17, 2010, No Comments

Edward Ranney is a visual artist who has learned as much as he possibly can about ancient cultures and how they survive ...

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Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Shape of New Design
July 4, 2010, No Comments

PAPER Last month I encountered Myung Ursos work at Patina Gallery. A Korean artist, her work incorporates paper, particu ...

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Interview with Paola Santoscoy
June 28, 2010, No Comments

When Paola Santoscoy met Adam Lerner in Autumn 2008, she had no idea that the encounter would lead her to Denver to cura ...

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Interview with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
June 27, 2010, No Comments

Editors Note: “Culture first, commerce follows.” So Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper told adobeairstream senio ...

Stephen Hannock "Flooded River"
Stephen Hannock, Painter-Conservationist New work installed at DAM
June 8, 2010, No Comments

A Stephen Hannock landscape is more than a painting, its a place of discovery, a dimensional plane that invites the view ...

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Mierle Ukeles: Garbage and Ritual
May 23, 2010, No Comments

Mierle Laderman Ukeles has performed as an artist for 40 years, setting up her work as situations that show the overlook ...

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Museum Design in the 21st Century Reviewed
April 1, 2010, No Comments

Museum design opened the arena for innovative architecture beginning with Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianos Pompidou Cente ...

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Art Critic for Denver Post says ‘Bienniel in Good Hands’
March 16, 2010, No Comments

Kyle McMillan, art critic for the Denver Post, says the dubious Denver Biennial is now in good hands and its time to giv ...

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New Video and Drawings Flaunt Dystopias
February 13, 2010, No Comments

Layers characterize work now on view in Denver by video artist Cliff Evans, and muralist-draughtsman Bill Amundson. One ...

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Colorado Watch List 2010
January 3, 2010, No Comments

1. The Denver Biennial of the Americas happens July 1-31, and “The Dissolve” SITE Santa Fes 8th Internationa ...

Duke Beardsley, "Sabadilla" 2007
New Art in Denver
November 19, 2009, No Comments

There is something cowgirlish in traversing Denver. Up this draw is Rhino, behind that canyon is LoDo, and over yonder i ...

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At Thornburg Campus, Contemporary Architecture Prizes
November 6, 2009, No Comments

The three winners of the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture shared a stage Thursday night in Santa Fe. Equa ...

Martha Colburn's "Myth Labs"
Site Santa Fe Biennial of 2010, Described
October 18, 2009, No Comments

Site Santa Fes eighth biennial, “The Dissolve,” harkens a glorious return to the imaginal the retinal and th ...

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Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial
September 30, 2009, No Comments

The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. ...

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Why Minneapolis Outranks Denver Culturally
September 7, 2009, No Comments

Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The top 10 America ...

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Public Art and Sports Teams: Is Denver Trapped in the Safety Zone?
August 29, 2009, No Comments

Im not a big fan of Jerry Jones, the hovering owner of the Dallas Cowboys who thinks hes as qualified to be on the field ...

Walter de Maria "The Lightning Field", (1977)
The West Is Out There
August 16, 2009, 4 Comments

A long wait at the DMV, while my 17-year-old son took his driving test, was interrupted by a tweet on my Blackberry. It ...

Peter Halley, The Acid Test, 1991–92.
Aspen Art Report
July 19, 2009, No Comments

When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I knew everything about Herbert Bayer, ...

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ArtWeek Colorado: Contemporary Art Shows in Denver and Aspen
July 8, 2009, No Comments

“Confluence” at William Havu Gallery in Denver is the first of two group shows the gallery will host featuri ...

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Betty Woodman, Revisited
June 25, 2009, No Comments

Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadel ...

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Adam Lerner, MCA Denver’s Animator
June 21, 2009, 1 Comment

“The board set me up in a really great way,” Adam Lerner told me by telephone from Denver the first week of ...

Hollis Sigler, On the Edge of Hope
Bud Shark’s Inkers
May 22, 2009, No Comments

Printmaking is a very fine art. Whether lithography, monoprints, woodcuts, or chine collé, the act of making a print ...

DAM passes on critically acclaimed design exhibition
DAM passes on critically acclaimed design exhibition
April 29, 2009, No Comments

Denver Art Museum passes on ambitious European design exhibition for display of rock posters from the 1960s.

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Adjaye, Lewis and Belasco to create quintessential video biennial at SITE
March 20, 2009, 1 Comment

Santa Fe, NM””Architect David Adjaye has been commissioned to reinterpret the iconic environments through which ...

Denver Art Museum Hamilton Wing
March 18, 2009, 1 Comment

Conrad Skinners videotape of the Hamilton Wing at Denver Art Museum by architect Daniel Libeskind.