Stories By Holly Hunt
Art
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
April 5, 2024Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Art
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
April 5, 2024There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
Art
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
April 3, 2024A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Art
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
March 22, 2024Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
March 15, 2024By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Art
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
March 11, 2024On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...
Art
Christo in Colorado
March 9, 2024"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
Art
Art Review: Charles Deas and 1840s America at the Denver Art Museum
February 29, 2024Viewed in context with Deas’s other works, Prairie on Fire brings together a number of themes...
Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
February 26, 2024The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
Art
Art Review: A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings at the Denver Art Museum
February 14, 2024Student and then teacher at the legendary Bauhaus school, Bayer exercised his talents in fields as...