The plan to remake the former economic engine of the city starts with an $80 million conversion of a huge, bullet-riddled shed into a performing arts center
Arts
Workers at one Colorado opera company push to unionize as another is accused of union busting
Amid a growing labor movement, some say there has been “an awakening” among performing artists
The giant troll in Victor: A Danish artist brings one of his international sculptures to an old Colorado mining town
The Gold Camp District Impact Group brought in Thomas Dambo’s “Rita the Rock Planter” as it tries to bring together the community and spark the local economy
Promising actors with disabilities take on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Denver
“This isn’t a sweet little thing where the audience goes and claps for the nice disabled people. We are trying to create rigorously artistic productions,” Phamaly Theatre artistic director said
An arts oasis on Colorado’s high plains is reckoning with changing climates of all kinds
Maureen Hearty and Kirsten Stoltz’s big idea for Prairie Sea Projects is to get people thinking about the uncertain future of life in eastern Colorado by embracing the best parts of rural life
160 acres of sculptures are on display in rural Colorado through June 2025
Black Cube, a Denver-based nomadic art museum, helped produce Marguerite Humeau’s “Orisons,” the largest earthwork by a single female artist
Stranger’s donation finally gives Chicano arts group a permanent home in Denver
After years of having to relocate, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council was gifted a building in the Art District on Santa Fe, providing it a new location in a rapidly changing arts district
President and CEO at Central City Opera out in the middle of the company’s summer festival
The opera company’s board hired Pamela Pantos to the role in February 2022. She left the organization after a monthslong labor dispute between arts workers and management.
The true story behind the conspiracy-ridden murals at Denver International Airport
Artists Leo Tanguma and his daughter and collaborator Leticia Darlina Tanguma share the heartfelt intentions behind their DIA murals
Colorado and its cities end up on a lot of “best-of” lists. Here’s how those rankings hijack your brain.
Data dives and polling on any number of watercooler topics have become a pervasive, and largely successful, marketing strategy