$3 million gift to Denver Art Museum will fund new galleries, major textile art initiative

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum announced today a $3 million gift from the Avenir Foundation that will transform the institution’s textile art program. In addition to expanding the current textile art gallery space to more than six times its current square footage, the gift will allow for the development of scientific and educational spaces, a staging area for exhibition preparation and conservation and storage of the more than 5,000 textile objects in the DAM’s collection. “This gift will help us tell [...]

Discover the grandeur and mystery of China at the Denver Art Museum this Fall

DENVER, CO.- This fall, visitors to the Denver Art Museum will get a rare look inside China’s artistic history through two special exhibitions. Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting and Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China’s Last Dynasty explore this mysterious and ceremonial country during two time periods—the latter years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and the subsequent formation of the Republic of China during the early to middle 20th century. Xu Beihong offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the full [...]

The Denver Art Museum is first venue for “Robert Adams: The Place We Live” exhibition

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first U.S. venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition features more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and worked in Colorado for nearly 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed images were taken in the Rocky Mountain region and will strike a familiar chord with [...]

Neuberger Museum of Art presents first ten-year survey of paintings and drawings by Dana Schutz

PURCHASE, NY.- Even before she had reached the age of thirty, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Her imaginative work, filled with inventive stories and hypothetical situations, is strange, humorous, whimsical, disturbing, and oddly compelling, all at the same time. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, her vibrant paintings abound with expressionist energy. From September 25 through December 18, 2011, the Neuberger Museum of Art will present Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, the first [...]

New Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at Denver Art Museum to trace artist’s evolution

DENVER, CO.- Becoming Van Gogh, an in-depth exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s unconventional path to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable artists, will be presented at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) from October 21, 2012 through January 20, 2013. The exhibition examines critical steps in the largely self-taught artist’s evolution through more than 70 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, along with works by artists to whom he responded. Organized by the DAM and curated by Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator [...]

Madison Square Park Conservancy Announces Alison Saar: Feallen and Fallow

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces Feallen and Fallow, a six-piece installation featuring four newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar. Drawing inspiration from the cyclical qualities of life and nature, Saar’s Feallen and Fallow will take park-goer sand visitors on a journey through the four seasons as inspired by the ancient myth of Persephone in the urban oasis that is Madison Square Park. The series will premiere alongside two of the artist’s known Treesouls [...]

Museum-Wide Exhibition Celebrates Clay Through the Ages and From Around the World

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativity, science and industry over time and around the globe. The museumwide exhibition explores one major medium and illustrates its diversity and history through fascinating stories that span time and geographic location. Marvelous Mud is on view June 11 through [...]

Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy at the Denver Art Museum

DENVER. CO.- Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy invites visitors to explore more than 50 paintings, textiles and decorative arts that defined the style that became known as the Italian Renaissance. The artworks and sumptuously designed settings create a “passport to travel” to Italy during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Visitors have the chance to experience the distinctive creative contribution of each featured city to the birth of the Renaissance style. Coming from the museum’s own [...]

First Retrospective of Jim Dine’s Sculpture Opens at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is the exclusive venue for the first retrospective of sculptural works by Pop Art master Jim Dine. As one of the most revered American artists, Dine has been a major force across the contemporary scene since the advent of the Pop Art movement. Celebrated for his paintings and graphic work, Dine’s equally prolific and profound efforts as a sculptor are less well-known. Jim Dine: Sculpture will be on display through May [...]

Denver Art Museum Exhibition Highlights Contemporary Western Landscapes

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) celebrates nearly 20 years of collecting contemporary western art in the new exhibition, Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection. Currently on view, Western Horizons looks at the American West through the eyes of artists working today. Revealing the unique landscapes and scenery that still exist, the show features a selection of 25 paintings, purchased with funds raised by the museum’s Contemporary Realism Group. The exhibition will be on view through the [...]

Denver Art Museum Acquires Six Site-Specific Installations

DENVER, CO.- Spurred by the enthusiastic response of the Denver community, and building on its commitment to expand its collection with new works, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will acquire six site-specific installations from its monumental exhibition Embrace!. For the exhibition, the Museum commissioned 17 artists to create large-scale installations in its Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Works by Lawrence Weiner, Matthew Brannon, Charles Sandison, John McEnroe, Rupprecht Matthies, and Rick Dula, which resonated strongly with Museum visitors, will [...]

Denver Airport’s Latest Sculpture: God of the Dead

DENVER (AP).- Sculptures outside Denver International Airport already include a 30-foot-tall, rearing blue mustang with glowing red eyes, nicknamed “Bluecifer” by snickering locals. Now the airport has another statue: a 26-foot tall replica of the Egyptian god of the dead. Workers erected the seven-ton replica of Anubis on Wednesday next to the main terminal to promote an upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. The statue has promoted the exhibit in other cities too. It’s not far from [...]

Denver Art Museum to Unveil Artist-Centric American Indian Galleries

DENVER, CO.- Building on the approach the Denver Art Museum (DAM) pioneered in 1925, when it became the first American museum to collect Native American objects as art rather than artifacts, this summer the museum will begin the renovation and complete reinstallation of its American Indian and Northwest Coast art galleries to place an expanded focus on individual artists, their creations, and inspirations. Today the DAM holds one of the nation’s most comprehensive collections of American Indian art, including 18,000 [...]

8 Most Original Art Museums Exterior Designs

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado (DUH!). New design of the building was created by Studio Daniel Libeskind and Denver company named Davis Partnership Architects. As you can see this concept design is based on shape irregularities and changing vectors. Pretty impressive and spectacular exterior design makes this building one of the most remarkable sights in Colorado. Lentos Art Museum Lentos Art Museum is situated in City of Linz, Austria. Zurich architects [...]

Discover America’s Roots In First-Ever Charles Deas Retrospective

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents Charles Deas and 1840s America, the first retrospective of the decade-long career of Western American painter Charles Deas. Organized by the DAM and guest curator Carol Clark, Professor of Art History and American Studies at Amherst College, this landmark exhibition and accompanying catalogue will reconstruct the artist’s life and career, and reflect years of original scholarship. Bringing together for the first time twelve of his most important pieces and featuring 30 paintings [...]

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