In: Art and Culture| Denver
9 Jan 2008Hadley, along with Brent Green and James Surls, is exhibiting in the current show at the Metro State Center for Visual Art. Entitled “Story”, the exhibition “brings together three artists whose artwork has a tale to tell. The exhibition is a profound collection of works that delve into created realities and visually realized narratives of [...]
In: Art and Culture| Denver
4 Dec 2007It’s official. Riverside Cemetery has been made an honorary RiNo.
RiNo is the River North Art District. Now the only art district with its own cemetery.
Read more on the RiNo blog, and read the RiNo Crow here.
In: Art and Culture| Denver
1 Nov 2007Things are moving along with the Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery project. We’ve created a blog, and today Jan was interviewed for Colorado Matters at KCFR. Also, we’ve been contacted by people from the Colorado Genealogical Society and Colorado Preservation. Hopefully we’ll have a productive meeting on November 17th.
Read more or get involved at [...]
This is the best story I’ve heard in a long time. Apparently sometime today a couple of entrepreneurial local furniture designers delivered and installed some nicely designed benches to both the Libeskind addition to the Denver Art Museum and the brand new David Adjaye Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
They apparently did a meticulous job [...]
In: Art and Culture| Denver| Design
30 Oct 2007I’m looking forward to the show that opens at Ironton on Friday November 2nd for a number of reasons. First, the work is constructed with terrific craftsmanship and attention to detail. Second, it shows that boundaries between art and craft continue to break down (and therefore supports the value of the local and the artisinal). [...]
In: Art and Culture| Denver
29 Oct 2007I was quoted in the Denver Post this morning regarding my interest in Riverside Cemetery, along with my friend Jan Allan and Father Joe Hirsch of Transfiguration Cathedral. The article, entitled “Group hopes to bring new life to cemetery” was written by Tom McGhee, and I’m really grateful to him for all he did to [...]
In: Art and Culture| Denver
26 Oct 2007Gene Sloan wrote and article that was posted in USA Today today about the burgeoning cultural scene in Denver. It’s not a fantastically in depth article, but it does show off a couple of Denver’s lesser known treasures, the Dikeou Collection and the Kirkland Museum.
The Dikeou has a fabulous collection of contemporary work ranging from [...]
In: Art and Culture| Denver
25 Oct 2007The newest addition to Denver’s cultural landscape is opening with a series of events this week; the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCAD) building is the first designed by David Adjaye to be built in the United States, and it is a jewel, and serves as a fascinating counterpoint to the Libeskind addition to the [...]
Next week more than 2,000 designers will be heading to denver for the AIGA 2007 conference. One of the presentations I’ll be looking forward to seeing will be made by Khoi Vinh, the design director at NYTimes.com.
Khoi will be speaking on the topic of ‘Control’. Here’s how the program describes it:
There’s a fundamental shift [...]
During the course of the next month, including during “Next: the AIGA National Design” Conference, a series of banners will hang on California Street between 14th Street and the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.
These banners have been designed by a combination of design professionals and students. The project is called Denver Urban Forest, [...]
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