Nari Ward’s “We The People” at MCA Denver Exposes Societal Wounds and Seeks to Heal Them
In the three months since the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver should have opened its newest exhibition, the mood in the city has changed drama...
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Local Organizations Partner to Provide Art Kits for Denver Students
The recent closure of Denver Public Schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left many children in need of meals. Food for Thought Denver — a local nonprofit or...
How Denver Artists and Organizations Are Still Making and Supporting Art
When the art world shut down last week after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommended gatherings of 50 people or more to cease (a number that has since ...
Color Blind Visitors Are Given the Full Spectrum at MCA Denver With Innovative Glasses
Technology keeps offering ways for the art world to become more accessible. Sometimes, like with the sensationalization of sharing art on Instagram, this access...
20 Nonprofits to Contribute to on Colorado Gives Day
On this Tuesday, December 10 you can help support Colorado nonprofits during Colorado Gives Day. This year marks the 10th anniversary of statewide giving with a...
MCA Denver Wants You to Get Weird With Local Artists and Musicians
Sharing a special moment with a stranger can be a profound experience. There's something freeing about the unexpectedness of it — a feeling that you operated be...
MCA to Showcase Three Women Artists With Colorado Connections This Fall
Recently in the art world, there has been a lot of discussion about the dominance of white male artists represented in major museums and galleries. It's a fair ...
An NPR Podcast Is Going Behind The Scenes at the MCA
Art museums almost always have sterile cleanliness about them. No blemishes mar the walls, the floors are clean enough to reflect the work and the idea that a n...
A Look at Denver’s Newest and Coolest Marketplace Concept – Free Market
Free Market is not your average Denver marketplace. Though each of the city’s market concepts have their own personality and atmosphere, Free Market distinguish...
Colorado Artist To Be Celebrated at MCA Summer Retrospective
Clark Richert's artistic story in Colorado begins in the mid-1960s, near Trinidad, with a collective called Drop City. The geometry of sustainable living — thro...
Tattoos, Georgia O’Keeffe and Carved Paintings Take Over the MCA with New Exhibits
Broadly speaking, contemporary art needs innovation in order to distinguish itself from the traditional canons of art. Without artists who take risks, or who ar...
Watch a Nationally-Acclaimed Artist Tattoo People at the MCA This Week
Tattoos have a long and storied history, fraught with infamy and stigmas. Today, however — especially for the younger generations — tattooing is easily consider...