Category: Denver
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William Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM from adobeairstream.com
The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of William Morrow as the Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. The press release sent out late morning on Friday, August 31, states that the museum concluded an extensive international search with his hiring. Morrow’s first project for the museum will be to join the…
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Working in Mysterious Ways, “Continental Drift” Spotlights Contemporary Coloradans from adobeairstream.com
On June 30, 2011 I received a request for proposals and call to artists from Nora Burnett Abrams, associate curator at MCA/Denver, for a joint Colorado exhibition to be held at MCA and the Aspen Art Museum that is now under way. Artists were asked to submit their CV, a 250-word artist statement and up…
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The Book of Mormon Debuts in Denver (and leaves one thinking politics) from adobeairstream.com
“You and me, but mostly me Are gonna change the world forever ‘Cause I can do most everything (And I can stand next to you and watch) And now we’re seeing eye to eye It’s so great, we can agree That Heavenly Father has chosen you and me Just mostly me.” These are lyrics from…
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Now Boarding: Fentress Architects and the Architecture of Flight from adobeairstream.com
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Men of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca from adobeairstream.com
The Fuse Box Gallery on level four of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building is all angles with slanted walls and sloping ceiling, as designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. A walk-through installation conceived by artist Laleh Mehran interacts with Libeskind’s angles by placing a large, black, acrylic cube near the far end of the long,…
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Abstract Angus – Theodore Waddell at Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Theodore Waddell arrived in New York to study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the early 1960s, a decade after abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell began changing the art world. Artists of Waddell’s generation, 10 years into AbEx’s reach and ahead of pop, were either reacting against the theories…
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Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver) from adobeairstream.com
William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a Houston-based artist who paints using a complex painting machine and proprietary software designed by the artist. He is represented by Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, which reported to Artdaily that they sold out of all of Betts…
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Silencing my Linear Self: Richard Tuttle on the Spiritual in Contemporary Art from adobeairstream.com
Rational thought is overrated. Structured. Ordered. Sequential. Converging to find that one right answer. This was not the process shared by the artist Richard Tuttle during his Logan Lecture at the Denver Art Museum in March. Some would not define it as a lecture or a talk, but instead the ramblings of a non-linear thinker.…
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Mindy Bray: The Geography of Looking from adobeairstream.com
Mindy Bray’s ink and gouache works on stretched paper explore the physical and psychological experience of landscape. Images of mountain environments are reduced to fragmented fields of shape and color that resemble screenprints, and require a slow reading but an expansive awareness. The show closed yesterday at Rule Gallery in Denver, where five large paintings…
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Yves Saint Laurent: 40 Years of Fashion, Yes, at Denver Art Museum from adobeairstream.com
Fashion as art is nothing new. The first exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a living artist happened in 1983 when Diana Vreeland organized Yves Saint Laurent for the Costume Institute. In 2011, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beautybecame the best attended exhibition in the Met’s history. The populism of fashion…
Leanne Goebel 