Reviews and Blog Posts: art

Cherry Creek Arts Festival

Submitted by Tara on July 1, 2010 - 9:51pm

The Cherry Creek Arts Festival is celebrating its 20th year of first-rate, visual, culinary, and performance arts this weekend. This free event features a cultural pavilion, Artivity Avenue, demonstration chefs, fitness instructors and much more! Shop hardy this weekend! Spending money in Denver generates much needed revenue that helps to fund the library!

If art crime thrills you, you might be interested in the book list Forgers, Filchers and Fakes.

Hazlo Ahora (Do it Now) Photography Exhibit

Submitted by Web Staff on June 28, 2010 - 3:57pm

In conjunction with the Biennial of the Americas, the Denver Public Library is displaying an exhibit of inspirational photography from Hazlo Ahora (Do it Now), in Mexico called De la Discapacidad (the ABC of Disability). The exhibit will be on display in Schlessman Hall at Central Library through July.

The Biennal is a month-long cultural celebration of innovation, imagination and the artistic achievement of the Western Hemisphere, hosted by the City of Denver. The exhibit also is a fitting way to recognize the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

A carnivore's inquiry

by Sabina Murray

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Liberty

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October 30, 2006

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23 year-old Katherine Shea is a wanderer. Supremely manipulative and charmingly sociopathic, she ingratiates herself to a series of men, young and old, then takes off whenever the mood strikes. Returning to the US from Italy, she jaunts from Manhattan to Maine to Mexico and back, leaving a trail of...

Andy Goldsworthy. Rivers and tides working with time

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Michelle

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January 21, 2005

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You have never seen anything like this, or perhaps you have if you've ever noticed how beautiful the sky is through the pattern of the leaves or sat staring into a stream mesmerized by the mosaic of stones at the bottom. This documentary explores the interaction between art and nature...