2/23/18 review of Denver Art Museum show Degas: A Passion for Perfection

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum's show Degas: A Passion for Perfection.

The thread gives a summary of and some background on the show. It gives a lot of pictures from the show, while discussing Degas's influences, techniques, subject matter, media, and development as an artist, as well as my own experiences with and feelings about Degas's work.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order on Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.

1/9/18 review of Denver Art Museum show Stampede: Animals in Art

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum show Stampede: Animals in Art.

The thread gives a summary of the show. The thread discusses some of the show's themes. And it gives some pictures and descriptions of work by artists such as Christian Hahn, Kim Dingle, Wenling Chen, Pia Stadtbaumer, Lin Tianmiao, Kiki Smith, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Georgia O'Keefe, Daniel Richter, Duke Beardsley, Inka Essenhigh, Rick Bartow, Deborah Butterfield, and E-Line Media.

Some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This has a slight effect on the coherency of this thread. My apologies.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the show.

10/29/17 review of Denver Art Museum show Her Paris

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum's exhibition Her Paris: Women Artists and the Age of Impressionism.

The thread gives a bit of background on the show, which was curated by Laurence Madeline. It discusses how the show illustrates women artists' struggles for equality, but how it also lets the women's work speak for itself. It discusses how the work shows some individual artists' development. It gives a lot of pictures of and discusses work by artists like Mary Cassatt, Anna Elizabeth Krumpke, Cecilia Beaux, Marie Bashkirtseff, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Marie Bracquemond, Berthe Morisot, Edma Morisot Pontillon.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the show.

10/17/17 review of speech by Dr. Lonnie Bunch about the NMAAHC

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a lecture Dr. Lonnie Bunch gave about the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Denver Art Museum in 2017.

The thread gives a summary of the speech and some context on the NMAAHC and Dr. Bunch's role as its founder. The thread discusses some of the themes of Dr. Bunch's speech, such as the historical struggle to get an African American history museum, its eventual approval, and the way the community provided artifacts for the museum. The thread also discusses Dr. Bunch's passion and how he built trust with communities all around the world. The thread discusses the NMAAHC's architecture and the impact the museum has already had on many people's lives.

Here is the link to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum.

This lecture was part of the Black Americas Project of the Biennial of the Americas.

9/23/17 review of Denver Art Museum shows Mi Tierra and Common Ground

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of two 2017 shows at the Denver Art Museum -- Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place; and Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013.

The thread discusses and gives a lot of pictures of work by artists including Daisy Quezada, Jaime Carrejo, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Dmitri Obergfell, and Fazal Sheikh. The thread also gives links to the Denver Art Museum's web pages for both shows. Both shows were great. So its worth checking out the web pages and the featured artists.

6/25/17 review of Denver Art Museum show The Western: An Epic in Art and Film

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum exhibition The Western: An Epic in Art and Film.

The thread gives a summary of and some context on the exhibit. It discusses and gives pictures of work by artists including Kent Monkman, D.H. Koerner, Andy Warhol, and Frederic Remington. The thread actually has a lot of discussion of Remington's works. The thread criticizes the show for being very uneven and for taking too many Western themes at face value. It discusses some interesting dialogues between film clips and other works of art. It also compares the show to other shows and other works. I probably went a little overboard in the comparisons.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for this show.

3/10/16 review of lecture by Mickalene Thomas

(Image source: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mickalene-thomas-29819)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2016 lecture given by Mickalene Thomas at the Denver Museum of Art's Logan Lecture series.

The thread gives a bit of background on Mickalene Thomas. It also discusses some themes from Thomas's lecture, such as women giving each other strength; how we humans see ourselves in each other; queer mutual love; narrative and dimension in collage; and the textile sense in collage. The thread also mentions a show of Thomas's at the Aspen Art Museum, the next lecture in the Logan Lecture series, and a post-lecture visit to Denver's Art Hotel.

8/30/15 review of Castiglione exhibit at Denver Art Museum

(Image source: https://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/castiglione-lost-genius)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of Castiglione: Lost Genius, the exhibition of masterworks on paper from the Royal Collection that showed at the Denver Art Museum in 2015.

This is actually a strange thread, as I addressed it to Arts and Entertainment reporter Ray Rinaldi, after he'd written a review of the show for the Denver Post. The thread is brief. But it gives a few photos and discusses a couple elements of Castiglione's work that I like.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the Castiglione show.

Here is the link to Rinaldi's article on the show for the Denver Post.

12/3/15 review of Denver Art Museum show Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio

(Image: Jamie Wyeth's Twin Houses, from Denver Art Museum website, via UMB Financial Corporation Fine Art Collection)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum show Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio, which I believe was curated by Timothy J. Standring.

Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio compares the work of father and son painters Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. My thread shows a lot of pictures of the work on display in the show. I discuss the varying styles of Andrew and Jamie. I discuss their different approaches to subjects. I discuss Andrew's drybrush and tempera styles. I discuss Jamie's visceral approach, including his use of cardboard as a canvas. And I discuss some erotic aspects of Andrew's and Jamie's works, including their nudes.

Here is a link to the Denver Art Museum's page for Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio.