Embrace the Whole DAM thing
The Hamilton Building, Denver's new addition to the art museum, invades the skyline and surrounding buildings like a walking UFO, which, depending on how you feel about large shiny pointy buildings, will make you awe or eww. This point of architectural controversy over the new building by architect Daniel Libeskind seems to be the main factor in the upcoming exhibit at the Hamilton building. Appropriately titled Embrace, the exhibit includes 17 artists who each received invitations to use the dynamic space for site specific installations and works. The DAM staff has chosen to "embrace" the space and its challenging angles and slopes instead of fighting for flat walls and typical spaces: a po...Read more
Friday at the DAM hang out with John McEnroe
If you've been by the Highland Bridge in the last six months then you're already familiar with the artwork of John McEnroe. It is there in a cement alcove at the base of the bridge, that the Denver artist's most well known and controversial sculpture stands erect: a towering mound of rouge painted, glow in the dark, plastic pods. Titled National Velvet, the piece has illicited both ecstactic reviews and heavy breathing from those who found the piece's phallic shape as cause for grunted diissaproval. Regardless though whether the sculpture goes down in history as a conceptual triumph, or another public monument to the male member, right now, people are talking about it, and ...Read more