Tag: Kirkland Museum

  • 15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All

    15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All

    Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. (Originally published on AdobeAirstream in 2011) “The influence of decadent Parisians…Picasso and Cezanne..has even been felt in the West. Santa Fe has been damaged by it and Denver has not wholly escaped the blight… . In Western art, Western literature…

  • Denver Arts Week in Review from adobeairstream.com

    Denver Arts Week in Review from adobeairstream.com

    The Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts were awarded November 3 to kick off Denver Arts Week. Mayor Michael Hancock honored the American Indian Galleries at the Denver Art Museum and Phil Bender with the Excellence awards and Veronica Barela with the Legacy Award. Arts Weekends November 12, but it’s not too late to…

  • 15 Artists at Kirkland Not Radical at All from adobeairstream.com

    15 Artists at Kirkland Not Radical at All from adobeairstream.com

    Just as the Impressionists broke with the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the 1913 Armory Show in New York brought the scandalous work of Brancusi, Matisse, Braque and Duchamp to America. The 1948 division in Denver showed that modernism had rooted itself in Colorado brought by John E. Thompson when he came to Colorado in 1914…