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4 days ago | 
dariamag.com | Madeleine Boyson
Union Hall1750 Wewatta Street, Suite 144, Denver, CO 80202May 9–July 26, 2025Admission: freeThe ritual is often the same, even if the modality is not: slow down, set an intention, and seek what you find. I am familiar with this practice after years of guided therapies, astrology readings, and tarot pulls. But I never quite get used to the fact that trusting my intuition works if I let it.
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2 months ago | 
dariamag.com | Madeleine Boyson
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, CO 80003January 16–March 30, 2025Admission: FreeReview by Madeleine Boyson Picture it: Arvada, Colorado, on a clear but frigid day. The sun shines on Sprawl (2024), a formidable yet shrewd steel sculpture by Stephen Shachtman near Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities’ front doors. Just inside, Jodi Stuart’s spritely Arc (Extruded) (2021)—a welcome salutation—greets visitors and the filtered afternoon sun.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Madeleine Boyson
“You can’t show art if no one can afford to make it,” says Brett Matarazzo of BRDG Project, an arts nonprofit that just left its second location—with nowhere else to land. DENVER—Another stage in the life cycle of BRDG Project has concluded after the 501(c)3 arts nonprofit officially closed its current location this February.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Madeleine Boyson
Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective’s sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe. Adam “GG” Geluda Gildar and the Right on Time: Time After TimeDecember 6, 2024–January 18, 2025Lane Meyer Projects, DenverPon Pon Bar is stuffed to the gills.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
dariamag.com | Madeleine Boyson
Madden Museum of Art6363 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village, CO 80111September 9, 2024–June 27, 2025Admission: freeIt’s one of the first things you learn in an art history course: landscape doesn’t place very high in the Western hierarchy of genres. From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, royal academies across Europe rigorously ranked paintings based on subject, skill, ingenuity, and virtue.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
libarts.source.colostate.edu | Madeleine Boyson
The university art museums at Colorado State University and University of Wyoming are joining this year’s Border War game and placing a bet in the form of an art loan. Gregory Allicar Museum of Art and University of Wyoming Art Museum have each wagered an important work from their collection, and the winning museum will get to keep the loser’s artwork on display until the end of the academic year in May.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Natalie Hegert |Madeleine Boyson
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School—an historic schoolhouse in Denver’s Golden Triangle District—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process. DENVER, CO—It’s the outcome few wanted, but everyone expected: artists are finally losing their leases in Denver’s beloved Evans School. This blow for the neighborhood and the city’s arts and culture community hit hard after efforts by creatives to purchase the structure fell short earlier this year.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
dariamag.com | Madeleine Boyson
RemainReal Fine Art901 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204October 4-26, 2024Admission: freeIt’s been unreasonably warm this autumn in Denver. Climate doom has had me flailing about for something to anchor the season. One of my grounding techniques is tarot: seventy-eight cards in Major and Minor Arcanas, all of which use symbolism to guide self-reflection.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
dariamag.com | Madeleine Boyson
Museum of Outdoor Arts, Marjorie Park6331 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village, CO 80111Permanent installationAdmission: $10 for adults; $5 for ages 5-20; free for MOA members and children under 5Colorado has a wizard, and his name is Lonnie Hanzon.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Madeleine Boyson
Newly discovered letters revive a writer’s quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history. Six weeks after my grandmother passed this summer, my family discovered loose correspondence among her effects. One letter postmarked in Taos, New Mexico, had traveled to Denver, Colorado, for a modest fee of thirteen cents in 1978. “Dear Bozovichs,” read the familiar scrawl. “Thank you for [the] check, letter + book.
