Begins August 1 Opening Reception and Screening: Friday, August 6, 7 to 10 p.m. The Yard, the Colorado Springs front-yard gallery run by artists Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley, is hitting the gas again on live events with the introduction of a couple of video-based works. The first, Denver artist Annette Isham’s interactive video installation
Venus: A Space to Hold, which begins its run on August 1, requires use of the Popwalk augmented-reality app for viewing as you navigate through the yard. Dates for video screenings will be announced via email and social media. Follow the Yard s Instagram for updates, or contact the organizers through IG to be added to the mailing list.
19th Century European and American Art, is a visually rich experience comprising eighty-plus pieces from a time period in which Western nations radically transformed from agrarian cultures to industrial ones. This big change was reflected in the era’s aesthetic development, with visual art moving from traditional to modern, as evident in this show.
“In art,” notes Angelica Daneo, the DAM’s chief curator and curator of European art before 1900, “the nineteenth century began with a craze for antiquities and ended with a march toward abstraction, a shift so groundbreaking that there is hardly anything in comparison from centuries past.” The show has been installed on the second level of the Hamilton Building, where for many years the art of the American West was on display, but which will now be a permanent home for nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures.