The Denver Art Museum is celebrating Treasures of British Art 1400–2000: The Berger Collection by Berger Collection curator Kathleen Stuart, the first publication on the collection to appear in 16 years. It features in-depth essays on 50 masterworks by some of the greatest artists of the British school: Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely, Benjamin West, Angelica Kauffman, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, George Stubbs, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin, and Adam Birtwistle.
With students settling in and instructional plans in place, take a moment to check out the seven top things you can do with the Denver Art Museum this school year.
Update: Download the program (PDF) for Friday, August 29.
The Untitled summer series comes to a close this month with Untitled #70 (Roost). We’ve spent June and July wandering and exploring, and now it’s time to return home, settle in, do some nesting and, of course, some birding too.
In At the Mirror, nearly 70 Japanese woodblock prints from the Denver Art Museum’s collection are exhibited together for the first time. Dating from 1901 to 2001, the selection includes prints acquired since 1970, when the museum added its first “modern” Japanese prints to its holdings.
The Shops at the Denver Art Museum are honored to be included on the USA Today 10 Best Shopping in Denver list. Our two very different shops have been recognized as must-see shopping attractions in Denver’s growing and thriving shopping scene. The Shop in the North Building is mentioned for its family-oriented selection of creative products to inspire artists of all ages, and The Shop in the Hamilton Building gets called out for its whimsical and creative assortment of ever-changing merchandise including jewelry and decorative glass.
Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives is closed briefly for a new rotation of works, but in the meantime you can get your fill of social justice posters at Access Gallery in Denver's Art District on Santa Fe. The two-part Giving Voice/Cause Related exhibition opens on Friday, July 18 with a reception and silent auction at 6–9 pm. All are welcome to attend and participate in the auction.
The reviews are in and the consensus is: you don't want to miss Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition, which closes June 8, features so many important masterworks that exhibition curator Dean Sobel likens it to Art History 101.
It showcases works by a who's who of twentieth-century artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Matisse, and Paul Gauguin—and has garnered a litany of superlatives.
On May 10 creative strategist Brian Corrigan will bring his current project, OhHeckYeah: Denver’s Immersive Street Arcade, to Banner: The Art of Light, DAM support group CultureHaus’s annual fundraiser and themed party. This year's event will highlight artistic interpretations of light through music, performance art, and design and feature a silent auction.
Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery celebrates the era of modern art, the roughly 100-year period of artistic revolution, based mostly in western Europe and the United States, which began around 1870. The story of the exhibition, which opens March 2, is told exclusively through examples from the superlative collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
The Super Bowl-bound Broncos' name celebrates the city's Wild West heritage. The Denver Art Museum also honors it with its western American art collection. More than one dozen works in the collection feature the fierce animal from which the team derived its name.
We took a look in the galleries on level seven of the North Building and level two of the Hamilton Building to see what's on view right now. This slideshow highlights five captivating broncho depictions in the collection.
The first time I saw the Lumière brothers’ films I was mesmerized. Silent, flickering black and white, and each less than a minute long, they give quick glimpses into moments of everyday life in France at the end of the nineteenth century. The people in them are at once both faraway and familiar. Men sport bowler hats and vests; women wear exaggerated, puffy sleeves and decorative hats. But as the films play on, it becomes clear that not much has changed in the nearly 120 years since these movies were made.
The museum now has its own shiny, new Tumblr account, managed by our adult and college programs team at the DAM. Those of you who have been loyal followers may remember The Collective website, where we posted stories, creative challenges, pics, and more. That site lives on in a new (more nimble) form as the Denver Art Museum Collective. We’re excited to be able to bring you the very latest of what’s happening at the DAM and also interesting finds from artists and museums around the world.