After months (sometimes years) of planning, deliberating, and visualizing, the fun part of installing an exhibition is when all the pieces start to come together physically in the gallery space. In the Now Boarding exhibition, that included two-dimensional (2-D) objects such as photos and sketches of the airports, three-dimensional (3-D) objects like architectural models and various airline travel-related artifacts, multiple videos, and a spectrum of graphics.
Your Mission: Take a photo of a design dilemma in your ‘hood.
Specs: Take a hi-res pic (up to 2 MB) of this design issue and upload it on Denver Art Museum's Collective website.
The exhibition Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight takes visitors on a journey through six airports designed by Curtis Fentress. The designs featured meld art and practicality, embodying the regions they were designed for.
This year the Asian Art Department marks a milestone for one of its dearest and most significant contributors, Bj Averitt. Bj (pronounced bee'-jay) became a museum member and volunteer in 1963. She served as the volunteer executive board president from 1966 to 1968 and worked as a staff aide in the Asian Art Department beginning in 1976. After over 40 years of cultivating the museum’s Islamic art collection, she retired in 2007 at the age of 85.
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The Denver Art Museum actively is collecting "variable media" artworks.
Untitled is one of those programs at the Denver Art Museum where you really have to be there to experience the magic.
I had one of those "I work in a really cool place" moments a few weeks ago.
Lisa Steffen, our educator in charge of access programs, sent me an e-mail that her team had created a tactile tour of Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective for visitors who are visually impaired or blind. My interest was immediately piqued. How could she translate a fashion exhibition into something that could be experienced through other senses? I had to investigate and decided to invite some media to take in the experience as well. We all arrived at the museum, not sure what to expect.
This month’s late night program, Untitled #48 (Anonymous), is taking it to the streets with crowd-sourced activities, anonymous art, and connections between strangers.
MakeARTtalk, the series where we ask local creatives to make a new work inspired by the DAM and its collections, will feature Matt Scobey and David Coccagna. The pair will be activating anonymous corners of the museum with their work and hosting mini-tours throughout the evening.
During Untitled #47 (LOL), the Denver Art Museum was lucky enough to partner with the hilarious duo behind the Humor Code, Peter McGraw and Joel Warner. This self-proclaimed scholar and skeptic travel the globe researching what makes things funny. During Untitled, the pair hosted an interactive Q&A about the science of funny with comedian Ben Roy, and also cooked up a study (with Untitled visitors as the subjects) that was simultaneously serious and silly.
Yves Saint Laurent. If you have decent vision and are in Denver, these words are likely familiar. Since Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective opened at its lone US stop, the Denver Art Museum, in March, the title has been splashed across billboards and on buses, storefronts, street banners, and magazine ads.
When you see it, how do you say or read it?
If you are still perfecting your French pronunciation of the late iconic fashion designer’s name, you are not alone.
The Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective exhibition has brought haute couture to the Denver Art Museum, and let me tell you, these mannequins don’t travel light. The 200 mannequins displayed in the exhibition wear everything from tuxedos to African-inspired evening gowns. Every hat, coat, and dress travelled from Paris by plane, train, and automobile to make their US debut. Here are just a few of the statistics from the installation of Yves Saint Laurent.
The 32-foot tall, bright blue sculpture between the Hamilton Building and the Clyfford Still Museum is For Jennifer by Joel Shapiro. On a chilly weekend in November 2011, the DAM’s newest outdoor sculpture was installed. Constructed of aluminum, the sculpture gets its signature color from an innovative matte polyurethane paint. The blue paint is slightly translucent and was sprayed over an ultra-white sealer to bring out the intensity of the hue. The matte finish gives the color depth and a velvety richness.