Economic study shows rapid rebound from pandemic lows. Now, those nonprofit arts and culture groups will have to operate without help from pandemic-relief funds
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A major Denver art institution weighs how it curates as museums around the world face increasing scrutiny
As the Denver Art Museum reopens permanent collections, including Arts of Africa, curators are re-examining the historical context and uplifting contemporary voices.
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Denver Art Museum gives up allegedly looted Cambodian artifacts
Prosecutors have filed a complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of four Cambodian antiquities that were sold to the Denver Art Museum by a late art dealer accused of pillaging and illegally selling ancient artifacts. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed the complaint Monday, and the museum has voluntarily […]
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Denver Art Museum shakes off the stuffiness as it unveils a $150 million, forward-looking overhaul
More mind-blowing than Meow Wolf! More windows than ever! More square footage of artwork out of storage. And double the number of elevators! The Denver Art Museum this week unveiled a thoughtful and physically stunning overhaul of the Martin Building — it’s been not just renovated but “reimagined,” the curators like to say — in […]
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Plundered art held by the Denver Art Museum revealed in Pandora Papers’ exposé of billionaire finances
The Denver Art Museum has been lassoed into an International art smuggling scam and is now trying to extricate itself in negotiations with the Cambodian government. The looting and trafficking of Khmer Empire statues and artifacts from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand came to light in an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists examination of offshore trusts […]
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Daniel Wolf, rancher and visionary art collector, dies in Ridgway
In the last few weeks, Daniel Wolf made time to help his eldest daughter with a new project. He helped India shovel through frozen dirt buried beneath the snow, unearthing peony rhizomes and planting them in her newly built greenhouse. It wasn’t unusual for him to take an interest in his daughters’ passions, to spend […]
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$1 loans? $10 million for a nail salon? Colorado’s federal coronavirus loan data has some eye-popping errors
The small business jackpot of $660 billion in forgivable loans helped thousands of small businesses in Colorado get through the coronavirus-related shutdowns in March. But just as the application process for the federal Paycheck Protection Program proved chaotic, so too is making sense of the data that shows who received how much. Some companies are […]
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You know Monet’s famous paintings, but Denver’s new exhibit provides a career-spanning look at his work
Claude Monet is the painter who gave the Impressionists their name, though it wasn’t his intention — nor was it meant as a compliment. Monet and a band of like-minded artists — including Edgar Degas, Pierre-August Renoir, and Paul Cezanne — snubbed by the official art world put on their own exhibition in the spring […]
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Oliver Herring: From MOMA, the Guggenheim and the Hirshhorn to … Auraria?
A renowned artist who has exhibited at great art institutions around the world has set up shop at the tiny Emmanuel Gallery on the University of Colorado’s Auraria campus in downtown Denver. Oliver Herring, born in Heidelberg, Germany, and now based in Brooklyn, has been feted in New York at the Museum of Modern Art […]
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From Tinkertoys to avocado greens: Denver Art Museum show presents play as a serious form of inspiration
You can almost hear vintage America breathing a sigh of relief — the midcentury modern design exhibition at the Denver Museum of Art celebrates a time of post-War optimism, rejuvenation and experimentation. Architects and designers led the country in a giant exhale, welcoming a bright (if sometimes avocado-green) future in everything from decor to advertising, […]