Denver Art Museum

So, a surprisingly amazing trip to the Denver Art Musuem this weekend. The building kind of has the Gehry-Koolhaus-iconic building thing on the outside, which is nice but whatever- the inside is the stunner, some of the reviews I read ripped it for wasting space and how hard it is to show work- clearly not a problem here, the work looked great, and will get better as they experiment with how to show work there, like at the Wexner Center. The main stairway is a great, spiraling, vertigo inducing space that makes you aware of how you move through it, in the best way possible. It was also great to contrast it with Liebskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin, the lightness of the DAM with the brooding darkness of the JM.






The second surprise was the quality of the work- strong work by Murakami, Ackerman, Ritchee, Saville, Rauch, and a number of others. So it ended up being one of those inspiring visits to the museum that raises the bar and makes you want to get back into the studio.


Franz Ackerman


Neo Rauch


Matthew Ritchee


Matthew Ritchee








This was not counting the original Gio Ponti building, with Asian, Mexican, Indian, and South American art, some really nice stuff in there, too but that ended up being more of a run through, the bulk of the time was in the contemporary wing...