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The Lake Dillon Theatre Company is a welcome gathering place for locals and...

SILVERTHORNE — You know you are a part of an intimate theater experience when there’s the possibility of having a sardine land in your lap. During the Lake Dillon Theatre Company’s production of...

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Casa Bonita shopping center in Lakewood home to more than just cliff divers...

Its pink, fountain-fronted anchor is the same, but much else has changed at the shopping center at the northeast corner of West Colfax Avenue and Pierce Street since 2014. That year, Broad Street...

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Outdoor digital art fest Supernova burns bright in Denver Theatre District...

Leave it to artists to once again transform the giant LED billboards of the Denver Theatre District into glowing canvases for digital animation. “The screens created this opportunity to do something...

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It’s been a rough two days for a small stretch of Colfax Avenue

It’s been a rough couple of days for a small stretch of Colfax Avenue north of Civic Center park. Denver Police DepartmentYessica Nevarez-Villa Drivers crashed into both a public art piece outside the...

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“Wopo” Holup, artist and public art champion, dies at 80

Phyllis Anna “Wopo” Holup, a public artist whose work is displayed in Colorado and across the country, died last month in her New York City home. She was 80. Phyllis Anna “Wopo” Holup Holup’s public...

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Famed Denver artist who sculpted “big blue bear” died after liposuction,...

Denver artist Lawrence Argent died at Rose Medical Center on Oct. 4 following a liposuction procedure, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Denver Post. The death of the internationally...

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A new mural will brighten a dingy RiNo underpass

Mallory Blanchard was 10 feet above 38th Street, her feet firmly planted on a rung of an aluminum ladder as traffic rolled below through an underpass in the River North Arts District. “I have never...

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Boulder may spend $225K to $350K annually on Art in Parking Garages program

People driving into downtown Boulder probably aren’t expecting to encounter artistic displays while parking in public garages. That’s exactly why the city may soon invest significantly in a program to...

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Boston murals send message of love to immigrants past and present

BOSTON — Murals celebrating immigrants past and present are cropping up in Boston neighborhoods as part of the city’s take on the national “To Immigrants With Love” campaign. The murals, which began...

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How does the Denver Art Museum dismantle a 33,000-pound sculpture?

Most of the work on the Denver Art Museum’s $150 million renovation has been happening quietly behind the scenes for the last two years. But on Monday morning, officials watched as the first,...

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Stacked floors, amazing views and two pools: See inside central Denver’s new...

When it opens next month, Denver’s new Carla Madison Recreation Center will be a marvel of the parks system, from its outdoor climbing wall and bouldering rock to separate lap pool and children’s pool...

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Denver’s $44 million, 5-story recreation center has an opening date

Central Denver’s new Carla Madison Recreation Center will open to the public Jan. 8, the Department of Parks and Recreation said Monday. The $44 million, five-story recreation center, at Colfax Avenue...

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Denver will become a Happy City with U.K. artist Stuart Semple’s first...

Acclaimed British artist Stuart Semple will debut his first American public art installation in Denver this summer, with the aim of making the Mile High City a measurably friendlier, more connected and...

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Betty Woodman, groundbreaking ceramics artist with history in Boulder, dies...

Betty Woodman, an internationally acclaimed ceramicist who notched several historic firsts in the art world, died on Jan. 2 at the age of 87, according to Salon 94, her New York-based gallery. The...

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Carla Madison Recreation Center near City Park is officially open

Denver city officials cut the ribbon Monday on the city’s first truly urban-style recreation center, opening a marquee building that is expected to become the most popular in the city’s 28-facility...

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Civic Center’s art collection branching out with interactive and musical...

At Burning Man, the wild art and culture party thrown each summer in the Nevada desert, Denver residents Nick Geurts and Ryan Elmendorf watched as wave after wave of people interacted with their...

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WATCH: Interactive, musical public art “Tree of Transformation” installed in...

The public will get to play with and marvel at the newest Civic Center art installation, 20-foot-tall “Tree of Transformation,” starting today, Jan. 18. The wood-and-steel sculpture depicts a...

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PHOTOS: Artworks brighten alleys in Denver’s Bonnie Brae neighborhood

The alleyways in Denver’s Bonnie Brae neighborhood aren’t dark or Dumpster-filled. Visitors find instead a collection of art — namely mosaics — created by area residents during the last decade. This...

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Your selfie as fine art? Denver thinks so — if you pose with one of its 400...

Finally, some vindication for all those selfie-holics out there: Self-taken portraits now are considered fine art in a new Denver Arts & Venues event celebrating the 30th anniversary of Denver...

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Interactive art lures Civic Center visitors with color, music

Sounds of the Caribbean filled Civic Center park in downtown Denver as 8-year-old Dash Elliott hammered keys on a modified piano. As park goers were serenaded Saturday afternoon they were also...

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