
Rule Gallery Denver Breaks from the White Cube to Reimagine Art Viewership
Thirty-four-year-old Rule Gallery temporarily steps outside its white walls, presenting site-specific, time-based art experiences in the Denver area.
April 15, 2025
Thirty-four-year-old Rule Gallery temporarily steps outside its white walls, presenting site-specific, time-based art experiences in the Denver area.
Vanessa Kauffman Zimmerly • April 15, 2025
Grace Kennison, represented by Visions West Contemporary, explores the American West through a female lens, challenging narratives with dreamlike paintings examining land and identity.
Visions West Contemporary • March 18, 2025
FeatureColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Future Town Tour, an ongoing series hosted by Warm Cookies of the Revolution, brings residents together throughout small-town Colorado to reflect on shared cultures and create new rituals.
Parker Yamasaki • March 07, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025
ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
Tomiko Jones's solo exhibition at the Center for Visual Art at MSU Denver features lens-based investigations of place and examines the notion of national belonging as it intersects with the American landscape.
Center for Visual Art at MSU Denver • February 25, 2025
"You can’t show art if no one can afford to make it," says Brett Matarazzo of BRDG Project, an arts nonprofit that just left its second location—with nowhere else to land.
Madeleine Boyson • February 25, 2025
Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective's sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe.
Madeleine Boyson • January 07, 2025
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
Stephanie Wolf • November 14, 2024
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
Madeleine Boyson • November 12, 2024
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
Joshua Ware • October 08, 2024
The collection of work featured in ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM asks what a bright future might look like for Muslim communities and engages visitors in new ways.
Kara Mason • October 04, 2024
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.
Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024
InterviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Pamela Zoline speaks with Noah Travis Phillips about the Colorado Plateau, recent work, and the science that excites her.
Noah Travis Phillips • September 06, 2024
WritingsColoradoRadical Futures
Noah Travis Phillips’s more optimistic, queer, and contemporary “cover” of Pamela Zoline’s feminist collage sci-fi classic “The Heat Death of the Universe.”
Noah Travis Phillips • September 06, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.
Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024
ReviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Anchored by imagery from Bears Ears National Monument, Fazal Sheikh's exhibition at the Denver Art Museum explores the dichotomy of beauty and destruction in the Southwest.
Deborah Ross • September 06, 2024
As Anna Tsouhlarakis presents an elaborate Northeastern rendition of The Native Guide Project, she looks back on the Southwestern roots of her artistic practice.
Erin Joyce • August 29, 2024
I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection.
Joshua Ware • July 23, 2024
"Biophilic design," which emulates the natural environment, is undoubtedly having a moment. So how does the Denver Art Museum’s latest design exhibition expand on this discourse?
Emma S. Ahmad • July 05, 2024
At the tail end of a legislative session—and after years of stagnant arts funding—Colorado legislators approve $16 million tax credit and more.
Kara Mason • June 05, 2024
The Town of Vail and artist Danielle SeeWalker saw very different messages in her painting G is for Genocide, sparking the cancellation of her long-planned residency.
Joshua Ware • May 17, 2024
In Performing Self at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, seven multidisciplinary artists expand the concept of performance art with works that are extremely personal, even courageous.
Deborah Ross • April 15, 2024
Denver Art Museum workers have voted to unionize, citing pay and management transparency as leading reasons for organizing.
Kara Mason • March 20, 2024
Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas.
Gina Pugliese • March 18, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.
Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024
FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.
Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 01, 2024
The remarkable Clarence Shivers—a multifaceted artist, Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot, and Colorado Springs philanthropist—is remembered in a retrospective exhibition at Colorado College.
Kara Mason • February 28, 2024
Laura Shill, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, commits to creative community-building through the playful and profound lens of conceptual buffoonery, which she elevates to a high art form.
Gina Pugliese • February 21, 2024
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability.
Maggie Sava • January 22, 2024
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