Almost everywhere he goes, he sees art. Meet the new director of MCA Denver. “As a curator, I think it’s important to remember that we do these amazing exhibitions, but then people go out and look at the Jumbotron at a football game, and it’s all within a continuum." denverite.com/2025/10/21/m...

Dan Namingha (Hopi, b. 1950) : Polacca #6, 2001 (The silhouette of First Mesa on the Hopi reservation in Arizona.) Acrylic paint on canvas Denver Art Museum

Helen Frankenthaler, American (1928-2011), Southern Exposure, 2005, silkscreen on paper, 77.47 x 93.98 cm, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

ah really liked today's White Pube essay, about Sophia al Maria, and about the difference between art and the art world thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2025/t...

Today is our last #ConArtInSitu for the season.

Ready for #ConArtInSitu today!

I made a quick visit for #ConArtInSitu day to the art of the ancient Americas collection.

This work explodes with motion and question of being. A blast of oranges, yellows, and reds pulls your eye outward from layered cores of impact. It feels like looking at the moment just before or after something irreversible happens. #ConArtInSitu

#ConArtInSitu with a sense of humor and a sense of scale. I’m at the Denver Art Museum looking at the monumental Claes Oldenburg sculpture from the bridge between the Ponti (Martin) and the Liebeskind (Hamilton) buildings

The art at Alameda Station in Denver is great! A massive mural next to a Herbert Bayer gate. On my way to Denver Art Museum to revisit the Monkman paintings for #ConArtInSitu Wednesday.

Women Artists Ascending Art historian @pspiesgans.bsky.social uncovers art’s unsung “sheroes,” moving them to the forefront of the canon by Stacy Suaya for the Getty blog www.getty.edu/news/paris-s...

On the H line to get to the Denver Art Museum for our Wednesday afternoon #ConArtInSitu. The museum has begun a program it calls mindful looking where it encourages people to spend long(er) periods of time with a single piece/work of art.

Gotta bolt early today

The preview I see as I post this image doesn’t capture the juxtaposition of the sculptural forms. The gloss of the metal arches contrasts against the matte grey and yellow of the bigger-than-human scale figures at the rear right of the image. There is a contraposto the reminds me of people.

Heading to MCA Denver for our #ConArtInSitu meetup

The H line or the Special Service train will take us back home from the Theatre District Convention Center station

Back at MCA Denver today for #ConArtInSitu.

Heading back to entrance of MCA 😂

am sitting at the MCA cafe. the whole building is a onee-person show!

We are spinning up this year's version of #ConArtInSitu. On Wednesday we will visit the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and experience the art there.

Evidence suggesting Walter Benjamin was right about an art work’s aura: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

The game is called Futura and is up on itch for free. rafaelfajardo.itch.io

I forgot to share here about a little game I made as an example for my students in Latinx Futurisms class, which was accepted into an art exhibition on that theme and which was reviewed in a regional pub: www.dariamag.com/home/caminos...

Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices at the Vicki Myhren Gallery in Denver through February 23, 2025. Curated by @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social

I’ve been working on a thing: The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices. This exhibition brings together the artworks of more than a dozen Chicanx artists who reimagine the long tradition of the codex as a dynamic space for Chicanx storytelling. Opens Jan 9.

Evidence suggesting Walter Benjamin was right about an art work’s aura: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

The queen will see you now! Archaeologists working at an ancient Peruvian site recently uncovered an elaborately painted room that once housed a powerful woman and her throne. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/09/pana...

Artists Wendy Red Star, Ebony G. Patterson, Justin Vivian Bond, and Tony Cokes are among 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships. Each will receive an $800,000 no-strings-attached grant.

Artist Divya Mehra’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.

A showcase of more than 110 little-known women artists at Tate Britain makes it clear they were excluded from the canon because of the patriarchy, not their artistic merit.

*Namechecked by Hans Ulrich, that's quite nice #art #curation #technology www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

You don't say. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

#ConArtInSitu has come to a close for 2024. There may be an occasional post between now and April of 2025. I’ll be monitoring my main @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social

Derrick Velasquez sends colorful strips of vinyl cascading across a wooden axis, creating dynamic striped sculptures. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/derr...

I’m at the MCA opening celebration for their two new shows. DJ, art from latinamerica! #ConArtInSitu

Today we are at the Vicki Myhren Gallery and at the Davis Gallery for #ConArtInSitu. We are putting a fine point on the idea of "contemporary" with this visit. The artists are the same age as our writers. In one case, one of our writers is also an artist with work in these shows.

The flamboyant botanical sculptures sprouting from Megan Bogonovich’s Norwich studio capture the wondrous moments of when “bucolic tips over into batty.” www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/mega...

I’ve been standing in one spot and my garden has flourished. The petals continue to dance as we experience time together. This feels like the magic of slowing down and sitting with an idea long enough for it to reveal its beauty. #conArtInSitu

Made it to my gate in time. I hope I can stop at the CAM in Houston. A heat dome is already in place over the city. #ConArtInSitu

Woah!

Today we gather at Union Hall Art Space in Denver for #ConArtInSitu. This is the 5 year anniversary exhibition. Esther Hernández curated 14 works by 10 artists.

Caught the 12:28 E-line train at Broadway Station. On my way to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver for our #ConArtInSitu visit

If Duchamp were around today, he’d probably love ND Stevenson’s take on “Fountain,” composed of a slew of what we might consider 21st-century digital readymades. Stevenson's emoji history of art takes on the ubiquitous icons by recreating well-known paintings. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/emoj...

Had to abandon my post in Café Gio for a bit. #ConArtInSitu

Suzanne Saroff’s playful bubblegum photos capture delicate forms on the brink of bursting. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/suza...

I’ve just spent too few minutes with the dream-like work of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra at the Denver Art Museum. It’s too easy to overlook this fascinating collection because the gallery is tucked away in a corner of the Hamilton building’s ground floor. #ConArtInSitu