Denver Arts World Update: Fall/Winter 2009
From stirring frontier murals to cutting-edge creations, Denver’s world-class art museums are exhibiting plenty of must-see pieces in the upcoming months.
Allen True’s West
When: Through March 28, 2010
Where: Denver Art Museum, Denver Public Library (Central Branch), Colorado History Museum
Allen True’s West – an exhibit too big for just one venue! The Denver Art Museum, the Denver Public Library (Central Branch) and the Colorado History Museum have joined forces for the definitive presentation of Colorado’s premiere native-born artist of the 20th century. The exhibit highlights all aspects of the Denver-raised True’s work, including phenomenal illustrations, paintings and murals that vividly depict frontier life in the American West. Don’t miss this incredible glimpse into Colorado’s history.
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Streams of Modernism
When: Through January 3, 2010
Where: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
In this innovative exhibition, Front Range-based artists/designers Michael and Katherine McCoy use the Kirkland’s extensive collection of decorative art to illustrate how ideas flow from studio-to-studio and culture-to-culture and recombine to create the streams of modernism, from Art Nouveau through the Bauhaus and Cranbrook movements to 1960s Italian design. The exhibition will include the work of such modernist masters Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, and Florence Knoll.
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Barnaby Furnas
When: Through January 10, 2010
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver
This exhibition takes place in MCA | Denver’s Large Works Gallery – simply because that’s the only spot where Barnaby Furnas’ work will fit. His monumental creations sometimes exceed 30 feet in length – you simply have to see them in person to fully take in their grandeur and power. Furnas drips, splashes and pours his canvases with a dark visceral red paint, suggesting the bloody remnants of war. The artist selected a group of his enormous “Flood” paintings for the exhibition and will be creating a new work that he will paint on-site in the gallery.
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Embrace!
When: Opens November 14
Where: Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum is setting artists loose in the Frederic C. Hamilton Building! Seventeen artists have created site-specific installations, featuring never-before-seen works by some of the contemporary arts world’s most creative minds. Each artist has chosen a particular space in which to do pretty much whatever he or she wants to do. With projects ranging from Katharina Grosse’s four-story spray painting to a multimedia presentation by Charles Sandison, Embrace! presents an extraordinary dialogue between art and the Hamilton Building’s extraordinary architectural elements.
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Author Francis J. Pierson delves into the architectural wonders of Denver with a self-guided walking tour.
The Mile High City celebrates its vibrant creative community with this weeklong, citywide event.
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