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“Pink Tube of Goo” is fun, free and accessible 24-hours a day in Denver

“Pink Tube of all Goo” is still among the fantastic things that occur from the new Denver, in which the market is soaring, the people is flourishing, along with civic self-confidence appears to be in a record high. Art, big and little, is thriving here right now, in museums in which attendance documents are shattering; […]

Denver Art Museum says nearly everything broken in vandalism spree can be repaired, downgrades damage estimate

Virtually every one of the artifacts ruined in a vandalism spree a month could be repaired, Denver Art Museum officials said Tuesday since they downgraded their initial loss estimate from almost $2 million to less than $100,000. Denver District Attorney's OfficeJake Siebenlist Jake Siebenlist was arrested Dec. 9 on suspicion of felony criminal mischief in […]

Classic paintings collide with SpongeBob and Ren & Stimpy inside Denver’s Leon Gallery

Cymon Padilla’s show of oil paintings at Leon Gallery is titled “re:mixture,” however it’s probably best described as a mash-up. Or, even more precisely, as a 10-car art pile-up. Caravaggio’s & “Doubting Thomas” crashes into Donald Duck. Rodin’s & “Thinker” collides with SpongeBob SquarePants. Duchamp’s most notorious smashes into cartoon personalities Ren & Stimpy. Throughout […]

Adam Lerner, visionary director of MCA Denver, stepping down in 2019

Adam Lerner, the acclaimed director of this Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will step down in June following a decade-long tenure where he built an global reputation for a risk-taking, influential and fiscally savvy leader at a fast paced creative hub. “My present contract expires in June and the museum is at a very healthy […]

Denver’s nonprofit arts and culture activity reached nearly $2 billion last year, new study finds

Nonprofit arts and culture action in the seven-country metro region reached a record $1.9 billion in 2017, supporting improved employment, capital spending and tourism, according to another study by the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts. That’s an 8-percent growth since 2015, the previous year the study was conducted, CBCA officials said. “It is a really […]

At Denver’s Robischon Gallery, John Buck’s fantastical art machines power a deep look into present-day psychology

Robischon Gallery has held a lock on big money art in Denver. In a city this size, there’s room for just one major contemporary art participant and Robischon has capitalized on its position on top, assembling an unbeatable roster of close and much talent that has kept the momentum going for more than three decades. […]

Breckenridge residents want popular, wooden troll sculpture removed

Breckenridge’s is however its lifespan might make cut short, as it seems the troll might soon fall victim. The buzz about media has been intense since the roughly troll, constructed of reclaimed wood, came up the Wellington Trail in Breckenridge for a summer arts festival. The pun ’s name is “Isak Heartstone,” given him by […]