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100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway Denver, CO 80204

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  • Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue. & Thur., 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Wed. & Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Museum shop open daily, during museum hours. Palettes Restaurant open daily except Mondays.
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Changing and permanent exhibitions, studio classes, tours, lectures, special events and family activities.







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  • 2012 | Best Group of Related Exhibits

    The marvelous Marvelous Mud, on display last summer throughout both Denver Art Museum buildings, was not a single show, but eight separate ones, all about clay -- at least to some extent. The main display was Overthrown: Clay Without Limits, which showcased current trends in ceramics; Focus: Earth & Fire also concentrated on contemporary works. Then there were shows that looked at historic ceramics, including Blue and White: A Ceramic Journey, which examined classic Chinese ware;... More »

  • 2011 | Best Wild West Show

    The artist at the center of Charles Deas and 1840s America had quite a story. Charles Deas was from a once-prominent family in Philadelphia; after studying art in New York, he headed out west to record the previously undocumented people and places in the area. And then, after producing a body of incredibly accomplished work on the Indians and the wilderness where they lived, he was declared insane and committed to the Bloomingdale Asylum at the ripe old age of 29. He was still... More »

  • 2011 | Best Photo Show -- Group

    It took the Denver Art Museum over a century to finally decide that photography deserved its own department. The first step was to hire a curator: Eric Paddock, who used to fill the same role at the Colorado Historical Society. To create the new department (previously, photography had been split between several), Paddock looted the museum's storerooms for treasures, many of which hadn't been seen for many years, if ever. The resulting show, Exposure: Photos From the Vault, featured many of... More »

  • 2011 | Best Museum Shop

    You're not supposed to think about shopping when you visit an art museum -- and at most of the museums in the metro area, that's easy. But the Denver Art Museum put as much care into its new shop as it did its exhibit galleries, installing a veritable department store of books, cards, jewelry, glass and pottery on the first floor of the Hamilton Building. Not only are the selections in every category superb, but the shop emphatically cured the doldrums of the formerly dead space that... More »

  • 2010 | Best Museum Shop

    Perhaps the most successful space in the controversial Frederic C. Hamilton Building is the new Denver Art Museum shop built into the formerly bleak and cavernous lobby. Roth Sheppard Architects, one of the city's most distinguished firms, did an undeniably brilliant job of using all those dramatic glass and canted walls -- and then the museum did an equally commendable job of filling the shop with an incredible inventory. It includes not only a big assortment of arty gift items and... More »

  • 2010 | Best Museum Exhibit

    Since coming to the Denver Art Museum from Germany, director Christoph Heinrich has been a workaholic, refitting the permanent-collection galleries devoted to modern and contemporary art and putting together a couple of major shows, including Embrace!, an over-the-top, pull-out-all-the-stops installation that's garnered national attention. The title reflects his goal of having artists embrace the revolutionary interior of the four-story Hamilton Building; to pull it off, Heinrich selected... More »

  • 2010 | Best Show About the Effects of Mind-Altering Drugs

    Back in the '60s, when boomers began to experiment with drugs, particularly LSD, the effect was labeled "psychedelic" -- and the altered perception colored the psychedelic posters used to promote concerts. A half-century later, those posters are considered art -- and the Denver Art Museum has become a major collector of them, as revealed by The Psychedelic Experience, a super-popular blockbuster last summer. The show was put together by AIGA graphics curator Darrin Alfred, drawing... More »

  • 2009 | Best Nooners

    DAM's slate of lunch-hour events shifts with the seasons, but you can count on at least one Lunch Box Series a month and a Nooner Tour or three to energize your midday break. The Lunch Box features a curator, artist or visiting scholar focusing on one work from the museum's collection; recent talks have centered on conceptual artist Fred Wilson and recontextualist Rachel Lachowicz. The noon tours (generally offered Wednesdays and Fridays) are a brisk thirty-minute run through a particular... More »

  • 2009 | Best Museum Exhibit

    Because it has a wide audience, the Denver Art Museum has to come up with a range of attractions, but certain kinds of shows are hard to come by, and expensive, to boot. That's what made Houdon From the Louvre, an in-depth look at the master of classical French sculpture Jean-Antoine Houdon, so memorable. Active before, during and after the French Revolution, Houdon was a super-realist who specialized in sculpting portrait busts of notable figures in Paris, including the visiting American... More »

  • 2008 | Best Museum Exhibit

    Artists today want to tell stories, but a generation ago there was a group of artists who simply wanted to make beautiful paintings, and they were the subject of Color as Field, a magnificent exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. The traveling show was guest-curated by Karen Wilkin, for the American Federation of the Arts, and the DAM's able Gwen Chanzit. Wilkin included color-field compositions by Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, as well as work by the style's ancestors,... More »

  • 2008 | Best Graphics Acquisition

    Over the years, Boulder collector David Tippit has gathered up nearly 900 psychedelic rock posters dating back to the 1960s and '70s. In February he announced his intention to donate them to the Denver Art Museum's Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics. Included in the collection are examples by the biggest names in the movement, such as Rick Griffin, Stanley "Mouse" Miller and Victor Moscoso. Although the posters are not yet on display, the museum plans to rock and roll with them... More »

  • 2008 | Best Friday Night Pre-Party

    Who would have thought that the coolest Friday-night party around would be at a stodgy art museum But sure enough, on the last Friday of every month, the Denver Art Museum turns itself into a lively all-ages club, complete with local DJs or bands, a cash bar and a host of kooky activities -- guided meditation in the Asian galleries, séances surrounded by selections from the Louvre, pedicure operations painting miniature artwork on your toes -- that are sure to get those... More »

  • 2007 | Best Museum Exhibit (Since March 2006)

    The blockbuster RADAR: Selections From the Collection of Kent & Vicki Logan represents a conflation of art-related events. It's the largest of the three special exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum presented to coincide with the opening of the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building. It showcases the collection put together by Vail collectors Vicki and Kent Logan, who are among the DAM's largest donors ever, and it's the retirement swan song of Dianne Vanderlip, founding curator of the Modern and... More »

  • 2007 | Best Asian Art History Lesson

    Aspen-based collector Kimiko Powers and her late husband, John, were connoisseurs of the old school. They were broad in their interests; as a result, they amassed some of the finest art works of art available. Ron Otsuka, the esteemed curator of Asian art at the Denver Art Museum, made friends with the couple over thirty years ago, and he convinced them to put their collection of more than 300 Japanese masterworks on long-term loan with the DAM. Some of these pieces make up Japanese Art From... More »

  • 2007 | Best New Building

    There's never been anything like it in Denver -- and not just because it looks like a futuristic spacecraft (or maybe what's left after one crashes). Even as the steel framing of the structure created by Daniel Libeskind and the Davis Partnership was going up, the Frederic C. Hamilton Building was a landmark. And as it came on line last fall, this addition to the Denver Art Museum was reviewed in newspapers and magazines around the world. Although many of the reviews were negative, as Oscar... More »

  • 2005 | Best Museum Outreach Using a Virgin

    For several Decembers now, the Denver Art Museum has hyped an exhibition on Our Lady of Guadalupe by offering free Southwest Santos family backpacks, which include special games designed to encourage interaction with the artwork. Families can play Rhymes & Riddles or put together an Our Lady of Guadalupe magnet puzzle while taking in the museum's collection of Virgin-centric artworks, most of which are housed in the Spanish Colonial gallery. The idea is to attract groups that might not... More »

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  • Ten things to do for $10 this Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2012

    Ten things to do for $10 this Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2012

    By Robin Edwards | Fri, May 25, 2012

    Three-day weekends rule, and this one is certain to be a hit. The city is bursting with stuff to do, and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to do it. Watch Footloose, see a Tim and Eric Awesome ... More »

  • Painter Theodore Waddell proves that all cows do not look alike

    Painter Theodore Waddell proves that all cows do not look alike

    By Susan Froyd | Tue, May 22, 2012

    The hoopla at the Denver Art Museum this summer is mostly focused on fashion and Yves St. Laurent. But another small show, Abstract Angus, featuring works by contemporary Western painter Theodore Wadd... More »

  • Costumes, Squared

    Costumes, Squared

    By Susan Froyd | Thu, May 10, 2012

    To say that the work of artist Nick Cave (no, not that Nick Cave) is singular doesn't quite do it justice, but his soundsuits, for which he is best known, are a sight to see. A dancer, sculptor, weaver and architect of three-dimensional wearable a... More »

  • Mother's Daze

    Mother's Daze

    By Aubrey Shoe | Thu, May 03, 2012

    May is the month for celebrating mothers, and at this weekend's production of My Mama Monologues, you can join in the celebration with local writers and actors as they tell true stories about their own moms. The idea for the show originated in Mau... More »

  • Decode the Denver Art Museum and Madeleine Albright's pins at Untitled #46 (Cipher)

    Decode the Denver Art Museum and Madeleine Albright's pins at Untitled #46 (Cipher)

    By Susan Froyd | Fri, April 27, 2012

    If you haven't already seen it, the exhibit Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection at the Denver Art Museum is so worth a look-see. That's because it's not just a collection of interesting an... More »

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