Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.” A committed social observer, Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the first major MoMA […]

This Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and the artists are selected from around the country. The jury selects the artists based on the […]

Denver Photographer Jim Milmoe notices compositions as he drives, walks and travels. Then with a precise crop through the viewfinder and a quick click of the shutter a “Photo Painting” is created. These photos are abstract in design, but one could not call them non-objective because they are not inventions of the mind, but real […]

Artist Vance Kirkland is best known for his dot paintings and his paintings based on the cosmos.   One of the premier museums in Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, in Denver, Colorado, allows visitors to time travel through about 150 years of art. The evolving […]

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) explores the art and culture of our time through rotating exhibitions and public educational programs. Featuring regional, national and international artists, MCA Denver offers a wide range of exhibitions promoting creative experimentation with art and ideas. Through adult and youth education programs and other creative events, the […]

ARTS&FOOD® Magazine recently visited Crystal Bridges Museum and walked through their wonderful Yoyoi Kusama Infinity Room. Here are our photos from that visit. The lights inside the balls are constantly changing colors making this infinity room an ever-changing world.       (Source: A staff member visited the exhibit and all photos were taken with […]

Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract […]

The Whitney Biennial is an unmissable event for anyone interested in finding out what’s happening in art today. Curators Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley have been visiting artists over the past year in search of the most important and relevant work. Featuring seventy-five artists and collectives working in painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, […]

Monet in his garden at Giverny with his Lily-Pond and Japanese Bridge.   DAM – DENVER ART MUSEUM: The blockbuster sold-out exhibition, “Claude Monet, The Truth of Nature,” at the Denver Art Museum had huge crowds every day. ARTS&FOOD® had the honor of going to view this project, and it was an immense undertaking for […]