Thursday, May 22, 2008

Art lovers, get your fill

While their avian namesakes scour the desert, Denver's culture vultures flit from art gallery to eatery and back again, broadening their horizons and filling their bellies — all without emptying their wallets.

How do they live the good life and afford it too, you ask?

Join us on a few First Friday Art Walks and find out.

SANTA FE DRIVE

Overhead: Jason Rogenes' 7-foot styrofoam spaceships.

Across the way: a mixed-media installation by Jennifer Jeannelle combining (among other curiosities) bottle glass, wire mesh, rock salt and human hair.

Around the corner: the provocative photographic "myselfportraits" of Sally Stockhold as Aunt Jemima and Ethel Rosenberg in the electric chair.

Some startling and stimulating sights emerge as you mingle in the throngs of bohemian design students and handsome couples in matching blazers browsing the Museo de las Americas, Vertigo Art Space, Spark and the other galleries lining Santa Fe Drive for blocks.


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