Tag: John Hickenlooper

  • Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial

    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.…

  • Clyfford Still Museum to Open with Fanfare, and Controversy from adobeairstream.com

    Clyfford Still Museum to Open with Fanfare, and Controversy from adobeairstream.com

    I wrote this piece last month for adobeairstream.com. The museum opens this week. On September 22, I took a hard-hat tour of the Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still museum in Denver. The 28,000-square foot, two-story structure— a rooted concrete cube—sits behind its more outlandish neighbor, the Denver Art Museum. By way of  transition,  a pastoral park…