Category: Art Museum
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Robert Adams Photography at DAM: A Bodhisattva Sees the West from adobeairstream.com
Photographer Robert Adams is a bodhisattva to the American West: “I want to make accurate photographs of the western landscape. One goal is to show what’s gone wrong so we’ll change it. Another is to show what’s right so we’ll take some hope in it,” he wrote. Through Adams’s viewfinder, the West, the ideal and…
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Making Treasure from Trash: Reclamation at Center for Visual Art from adobeairstream.com
Reclamation speaks to the human need to overcome consumption, to subvert capitalistic messages and to focus on the still, quiet voice at the creative core.
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Quilting for their Lives
In a remote village in the Thar desert of Pakistan, the women are primarily Hindu in a Muslim country. Not only that, but they are from the bottom of the untouchable caste system. They have very few options in life for what they can do to earn a living. Most of the women are illiterate…
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Libby Lumpkin Picks Urbane and Quirky Art for New Mexorado from adobeairstream.com
This kind of juried exhibition provides the opportunity to better know some of your scattered neighbors—to learn more about all those loners, hippies, socialites, cowpokes, scientists, and retired generals living at the end of some dirt road, some of whom are developing as artists, and a couple of whom might actually be waiting for that…
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Dario Robleto–War and ‘Life Instinct’ in Memento Mori
Art Writer Leanne Goebel reviews Dario Robleto’s ‘An Instinct Towards Life’ at MCA/Denver. The review was originally published on adobeairstream.com.
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Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss Electronic Art at Denver Art Museum!
Denver Art Museum ends its first exhibition ever of electronic media, Blink! on May 1. The exhibition, curated by Jill Desmond, includes 55 works, 40 from the DAM collection.
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James Surls Curates Chinese and American Women (and Men)
James Surls described the incarnation of an art show that he and photographer Charles Dukes hatched during a Colorado blizzard, with the notion of featuring their wives, artists Charmaine Locke and Wang Nanfei.
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What Do Chinese Women Artists Want? Panel at CU Boulder Spotlights Bicultural Exchange
Charles Dukes is an American photographer living in Beijing. It was he and James Surls who came up with the idea to have a collaborative exhibition and explore why being a woman artist comes with built in obstacles. Obstacles Segraves suggested we no longer have in America. Huh?
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What’s missing from Colorado’s “Best of…” lists when it comes to visual art
I’m more interested in what is unique to Colorado and not just some rehashing of the latest trends in contemporary art. Art happens everywhere in the state, not just on the Front Range.
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CU Boulder Gets New Museum Visual Arts Complex joins museum, education functions
Leanne Goebel 