Category: Culture
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WPA-Style Posters Reflect Mesa Verde Style from Arts Perspective Magazine
It was Doug Leen who created the Square Tower image for Mesa Verde National Park in 2006, a poster done in the WPA style, but an original Leen design. Leen visited Square Tower, which has been closed to guests since about 1940. Square Tower is the tallest Ancient Puebloan structure and what the park wanted…
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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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Press Relations for Creative Industry
Art Writer Leanne Goebel presented a workshop on Press Relations for Creative Industry at the Create Denver Expo.
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Enrique Chagoya Controversy in Loveland
I wrote this piece for the Huffington Post about the controversy over Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals” at the Loveland Museum. The truck driver from Montana, Kathleen Folden pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and received 18 months probation. Colorado Councilman May Want To Explore Why Art “Turned Him On.” Also on Huffington Post,…
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Ed Ranney New World Landscapes at DAM and Brendan Tang at Plus Gallery
Leanne Goebel writes about Edward Ranney at the Denver Art Museum and interviews Brendan Tang for adobeairstream.com.
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Energy Effects and Objectophillia on adobeairstream.com
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to…
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Pagosa Springs Community Comes Together for New Mural
In SW Colorado the town of Pagosa Springs comes together to replace a decaying downtown mural. The new mural designed by artist Jeffry Haas and Hayley Goodman was completed with the help of local high school students.
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The Art of Selling Art on the Web
The primary buyers of art seem to be hotels, hospital and blue-chip billionaires hedging their funds in Warhols and Picasso’s. Collectors are not spending their discretionary income because their walls are already filled. Artwork Network doesn’t claim to be an art expert and they are not representing artists. For them, art is a product and…
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Dave Hickey at AWP in Denver
Hickey chats up empty room in Denver at AWP, says he will quit teaching writing.
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Yosi Sargent, the NEA and that conference call
Sargent tells his side of the story following his resignation from the NEA.
Leanne Goebel 