Learn More about the Shantell Martin Artworks in Our Collection
We are delighted to have added two pieces from Shantell Martin: Words and Lines to our collection.
We are delighted to have added two pieces from Shantell Martin: Words and Lines to our collection.
Check out our free online drawing, writing, and mindful looking classes.
Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial los artistas y diseñadores de América Latina iniciaron un regreso a las tradiciones culturales y visuales locales.
In the 1920s, artists in Latin America initiated a return to local visual cultural traditions, eschewing foreign artistic models.
Our design collection includes 80 posters by the legendary designer and illustrator.
Learn about this painting by one of the most influential Indigenous artists of the 20th century.
A look back at the impacts other pandemics and epidemics have had on world populations and their arts.
Altarpiece, gifted to the Denver Art Museum by Yoko Ono, is considered Keith Haring’s final work, executed weeks before he died of AIDS on February 16, 1990. It serves as a testament to the power of creativity and the artist’s willingness to share his vision even as he was mortally ill. Featuring his signature hieroglyphic figures, this bronze triptych recalls Christian altarpieces as well as devotional shrines dedicated to the deities of world religions. Determined to finish it before he died, Haring rapidly cut the design into clay, which was later cast in bronze.
Editor’s note: The Museo de las Americas (861 Santa Fe Drive) will host Rhythm & Ritual from June 19-October 17, 2020.
The Denver Art Museum team has completed the installation of its monumental Haida poles, marking the beginning of art installations for a redesigned and reinstalled Northwest Coast and Alaska Native gallery. The reimagined space will be among the first art galleries to reopen to the public in the initial phase of the renovated Martin Building on June 6, 2020.
We’re happy to announce that on June 6, 2020, we will open three floors of art galleries, learning and gathering spaces, and a restaurant and cafe in the renovated Lanny and Sharon Martin Building and new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center .
The June 2020 reopening date will be the first of several phased openings of the Martin Building, with the entire building to be reopened to the public by its 50th anniversary at the end of 2021.
Explore Julia Alvarez's novel In the Time of the Butterflies in front of Marie Watt's artwork Butterfly (in The Light Show) at the Denver Art Museum's Drop-In Writing program on October 22.