In June of next year, the Denver Art Museum will begin the phased reopening of its unified campus. The first phase will open with three levels of the Gio Ponti-designed Martin Building and the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center. In November 2017, the north side of the campus closed to the public for renovations. The new campus… [Click to read more]
Light Show exhibit spotlights curatorial collaboration
The Denver Art Museum’s The Light Show exhibit shines on nearly 250 works of art from the museum’s nine curatorial departments. The exhibit is co-curated by Rebecca Hart, Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Jorge Rivas Pérez, Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art. This collaborative showcase highlights the physical and symbolic representations of… [Click to read more]
Denver-born artist returns home for exhibit at DAM
Artist Jordan Casteel has returned to her roots in Denver for her first major museum showing at the Denver Art Museum. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze is on view at the museum through August 18, 2019. The exhibit features nearly 30 paintings from the East High School graduate’s body of work from 2014-2018. The exhibit highlights Casteel’s paintings that include subject… [Click to read more]
Denver Art Museum unveils sole Rembrandt exhibit
Now through early next year, the Denver Art Museum is the sole U.S. venue to host Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker. The exhibit includes nearly 100 prints from throughout Rembrandt’s 40-year career. It looks at his approach to printmaking and the evolution of his craft. It also observes how he combined the three principle methods of intaglio: etching, drypoint and engraving. On… [Click to read more]
Denver muralist creates work with budding artists
Denver muralist Jaime Molina is sharing his passion and his paint brush with a few local young artists. Over the past couple months, Molina held a series of workshops for local youth from Denver Public Library’s Montbello Branch ideaLab and the William E. Cope and Denver Broncos Boys & Girls Clubs. When visitors explore Molina’s “Past the Tangled Present” installation on view at the Denver Art… [Click to read more]
Students react to Free for Kids
More than 200,000 children and youth visited the Denver Art Museum in 2017. Thanks to Scott Reiman and the Reiman Foundation as well as Bellco Credit Union, the Free for Kids program allows all Colorado youth access to the world of art. With the North Building under renovation, the museum is open every day of the week now and large numbers of school groups and… [Click to read more]
New partner joins Reiman Foundation to support Free for Kids
As founding sponsor of the Denver Art Museum’s Free for Kids program, the Reiman Foundation is proud to welcome a new presenting sponsor, Bellco Credit Union. The new sponsorship will help provide enhanced cultural learning and engagement opportunities, arts education materials for youth visitors, and funding for community outreach. Free for Kids includes free general admission to all visitors under age 18, including… [Click to read more]