Category: Denver
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What We Can Learn from Denver’s “Blue Mustang”
from adobeairstream.com in March 2009 Rachel Hultin, a Denver real estate developer, has launched a Facebook page opposing Denver International Airport’s Blue Mustang. A dare after a night out drinking with friends turned into a media frenzy for Hultin, who has wanted to crowd-source a response to the Luis Jimenez sculpture that greets visitors at the airport. Hultin has…
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Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial
from adobeairstream.com September 2009 The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. So are conference planners, hotel bookers and purveyors of the creative economy in Mile High City. The Biennial of the Americas, scheduled June 24-August 12, 2010 is a scant 9 months away.…
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Is Gender Bias in Denver Arts in Transit — Or Fixed? from adobeairstream.com
When I first read Ray Mark Rinaldi’s review of “The Transit of Venus” exhibition at RedLine, I was astonished at the biased perspective of this major voice for art in Denver. He labeled the show “the girliest art exhibit . . . ever seen in Colorado.” But, to be fair, his first sentence, “At the risk…
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Remembering Robin Rule, Denver Gallery Owner
Robin Rule, the passionate and complicated Denver gallery owner, died of cancer on December 29, 2013, age 55. Her indomitable spirit animated the Denver art world from 1987 to 2013, and her legacy will forever be tied up with the issues of the contemporary art world today in which complex loyalties and the difficulty of…
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Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview
A Denver Art Preview. From a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture with abstract line, the first few months of 2014 reveal a span of new art shows in Denver, worth viewing between football games, snowboarding trips and waiting in line at the marijuana shops. The Transit of Venus:…
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Month of Photography Denver from adobeairstream.com
MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout the city, the suburbs and the region spanning from mid-March to mid-April 2013. Just a few of the exhibitions that are not to be missed: The Reality of Fiction at Redline curated by MoP organizer…
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John McEnroe in Art Ltd. Magazine
john mcEnroe by leanne haase goebel Mar 2013 An abandoned mining area above the town of Ward, Colorado, inspired John McEnroe’s most recent body of work, Half Life, currently on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, in a solo show thematically connected with four other artist’s solo shows, under the curatorial title: “Object | Nature.”…
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Ten Colorado Artists You Should Know About – They Happen to be Women from adobeairstream.com
This appeared on adobeairstream.com on International Women’s Day. Here are ten artist’s I think should be more well-known. They are all currently working in Colorado. They just happen to be women.
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Innovation in Art Criticism from adobeairstream.com
This piece was recently picked up by ArtsJournal. Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than…
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Dana Schutz’s Grotesque and Fantastical Works Linger from adobeairstream.com
Dana Schutz’s work was recently featured in two Denver museums. A 10-year survey, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels was on view at the Denver Art Museum while in conjunction Dana Schutz: Works on Paper was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Schutz’s bright works have been compared to ones by John Currin,…
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