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MCA exhibits showcase big names, big ambitions from Big Apple

submarine USS Nautilus steaming past the Statue of Liberty, and assigns them some new contemporary meaning. Matthew Buckingham's cerebral, text- driven works including "Celeritas," 2009, screened lettering on ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jack Kerouac,  Jackson Pollock,  Willem de Kooning

Denver's 2010 Biennial of the Americas to park downtown

Many of the artists will be represented at the 28,000-square-foot McNichols Building, on the edge of Civic Center. (Denver Post file photo ) The length has shortened, the scale has shrunk and the focus has tightened, but Denver's kickoff Biennial of ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bruce Mau,  Aspen Institute

Four possible directions for Denver's public art

of budget sometimes make certain projects, however desirable, impossible. Olafur Eliasson's "New York City Waterfalls," a quartet of four cascades, drew 1.4 million visitors and generated an ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Olafur Eliasson,  Jaume Plensa,  Maya Lin,  Rosa Parks,  Richard Serra

Quartet plus trio equals7th heaven

A handful of masterpieces — including Mendelssohn's transcendent Octet — have been written for larger instrumental combinations than quartets or trios, but major examples of these augmented chamber works remain unusual. That rarity helps explain the ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Osvaldo Golijov

"This Too Shall Pass" artist shows staying power

gained focus, depth and provocativeness. She has left behind the early paintings that verged on gimmickry, relying too heavily on repeated devices such as tight cropping and the depiction of only sections of figures. ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Denver Art Museum's addition turning a corner with "Embrace!"

collection of more than 68,000 objects and an annual operating budget of $16.5 million. "Embrace!" art hangs in the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton lobby. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post) When the Denver Art ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Daniel Libeskind

Review: "Hoffmann" captures alluring fusion of fantasy and reality

"The Tales of Hoffmann" stands out as one of the most unusual and intriguing works in all of opera. For his final masterpiece, which remained unfinished at his death in October 1880, composer Jacques Offenbach left behind his popular operetta style and ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rube Goldberg

Denver Art Museum exhibit could be subversive sculptor's breakout moment

his sights on where he wants to show some day. and wound up luckily making the short list," McEnroe said. "I was petrified. I didn't know what to do with a project of that size." ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John McEnroe,  Embrace (musician),  Norman Rockwell,  Daniel Libeskind,  Ohio State University

"Embrace!" celebrates Denver Art Museum's Hamilton building

Denver Art Museum, West 13th Avenue between Bannock Street and Broadway. Curator Christoph Heinrich invited 17 artists from around the world to create works that respond to the distinctive architectural character of the museum's ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Embrace (musician),  John McEnroe

Denver Arts Week: Arts put on their best face

with an array of exhibitions, lectures and demonstrations. Complimentary cookies and milk! John Moore each documenting the changing fortunes of three couples on successive Christmas Eves. During Denver Arts Week, the DCTC is offering ...

From KYLE MACMILLAN, Denver Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Helen Mirren,  Alan Ayckbourn,  Christopher Plummer

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