Talks/Lectures: Night of Ideas
We are delighted to present the 2026 edition of Night of Ideas, a global event initiated by the French Embassy and Villa Albertine in 2005, now hosted in major cities […]
April 14, 2026
Denver
Reading: DISPLACED
Join us for a community-centered literary event exploring the theme of displacement. Presented by Alchemy Author Services, in collaboration with Matter Books, (UN)SEEN Frames of Quiet Witness, and RedLine Contemporary […]
April 14, 2026
Panel Conversation: ConnectArte: Community, Youth & Collective Art Making
This ConnectArte program brings together young artists from the exhibition Nuestras Historias for a panel discussion on community-based art-making and museum engagement. Guided by curator, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, and project […]
April 14, 2026
Workshop: Crafty Action Society
Crafty Action Society Wednesday, April 15, 5:30–8pm Center for Visual Art It’s time to get crafty! Last month, we introduced you to our activist partners with an overview of our […]
April 09, 2026
Opening Reception: Western Cowboy: Reloaded
Western Cowboy: Reloaded (May 8–June 20, 2026) brings together the work of six Colorado-based photographers Juan Fuentes, Constance Jaeggi, Amanda Lopez, Jack Ludlam, Rob Hammer, and Ian Warren to reconsider […]
April 09, 2026
Concert, Submerged in Sound: An Asé Aperture Listening Experience
Submerged in Sound is a curated listening experience exploring the Afrofuturist lineage in music, tracing a sonic path from early innovators to modern bass culture. Led by Darrien Williamson of […]
March 20, 2026
Auction: CPAC’s Annual Print Auction Preview Exhibition
Discover a dynamic selection of contemporary photography at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s Annual Print Auction Preview Exhibition. This free public exhibition features more than 30 works by acclaimed local […]
March 18, 2026
Workshop: Print Jam + Closing Reception
Celebrate Denver’s Month of Printmaking and the closing of the Futures exhibition with a day of printmaking demonstrations from artists in the exhibition and hands-on printmaking activities. Free and open to […]
March 05, 2026
Letter to the Editors: Paula Castillo on Moving Beyond “Hybridity” to Frame Mestizaje
In response to Joshua Ware's critical reflection on her Denver public artworks, Paula Castillo warns against flattening lived inheritance into a “surface mixture.”
March 02, 2026
Opening Reception: YALLA & (UN)SEEN, Photography Exhibitions
From March 13-May 17, 2026, RedLine Contemporary Art Center presents two distinct contemporary photography exhibitions: UNSEEN and YALLA: You’ll Never Walk Alone. YALLA: You’ll Never Walk Alone is a solo […]
February 27, 2026
Workshop: Crafty Action Society
We’re bringing together art and activism, creating a space for artists and crafters to come together to create for a cause. Crafty Action Society is a way to bring people […]
February 25, 2026
Charlie Chaplin’s Cabin, and Western Mythologies, Teeter on the Edge at Cookie Factory
In the cyclonic installation Rush, Gary Simmons critically blurs history, cinema, and Western propaganda. He also makes space for wishful grief.
February 05, 2026
Unpacking the Uneasy Cultural Hybridity of Paula Castillo’s Denver Monoliths
In Paula Castillo's three new public artworks across downtown Denver, cultural fusion is an optimistic and ideologically risky proposition.
January 15, 2026
Colorado Artist Residencies: Mountains to Metropolis
From the High Plains to the Four Corners region, Colorado’s artist residencies are as rangy as its landscape. Find out which one is right for your practice.
November 13, 2025
Plot Thickens in Colorado Censorship Row as Artist—and Her Subjects—Speak Out
A Denver museum’s alleged act of censorship is stirring national debate, as stakeholders clash over who gets to tell the story—and who gets heard.
November 11, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Joel Swanson
Denver-based artist Joel Swanson’s obsessive processes explore how formal and corporeal repetitions function as methods of discipline.
September 05, 2025
SponsoredColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
Beau Carey’s Brightness Bound Reimagines Landscape Painting Through Memory and Movement
Catch Beau Carey's innovative landscape paintings at Visions West Contemporary in Denver, October 3-November 15, 2025, with an opening reception on October 3, 6-8 pm.
September 05, 2025
ReviewColoradoVol. 12 Obsession
Kent Monkman’s History Paintings Are Anything But Traditional
Kent Monkman’s exhibition at the Denver Art Museum is a provocative and stunning survey that champions the marginalized while subverting history.
September 05, 2025
Artists Explore Structures of Confinement and the Carceral System in High Walls
High Walls: Artists Navigate Structures of Confinement at RedLine Denver, August 15–October 12, 2025, presents art by incarcerated and contemporary artists exploring U.S. carceral systems.
August 06, 2025
An Artist Who’s Leaving Her Studio—and Angling for “Feral Freedom”
Denver-based artist Kaitlyn Tucek has a seemingly boundless practice, but working without a dedicated space will be a new challenge.
July 31, 2025
Modern Nature: The Contemporary Art Guide to Southwest Botanical Gardens
Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.
July 03, 2025
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
Grace Kennison: Reimagining the American West Through a Female Lens
Grace Kennison, represented by Visions West Contemporary, explores the American West through a female lens, challenging narratives with dreamlike paintings examining land and identity.
March 18, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Sammy Lee
Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
March 07, 2025
The Intimate Infinite Brings Tomiko Jones’s Investigations of Place to MSU’s Center for Visual Art
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.
February 25, 2025
As Another Denver Art Project Goes Fugitive, Co-Director Counts “A Hundred Reasons Why”
"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.
February 25, 2025
Denver Collective’s Four-Hour Karaoke Marathons Have a Message For the Art World: Get Over Yourself
Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective's sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe.
January 07, 2025
MCA Denver’s Dance Exhibition Churns with Social and Political Energy, Matching a “Moment of Anxiety”
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Evans School Exodus: Denver Artists Prepare to Leave the Historic Former Elementary School
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
November 12, 2024
An Aesthetic of Repugnance: A Review of Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
October 08, 2024
