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Denver
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Art Hotel
Clyfford Still Museum
Denver Art Museum
Dikeou Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Art Hotel //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12th & Broadway
The 165-room ART Hotel, located in Denver’s museum district, is a “modern architectural gem bursting with unique multisensory installations,” according to Condé Nast. The Art Hotel boasts “the highest caliber of art in any U.S. hotel,” one of the few hotels in the world that can be described as doubling as an art museum.
Contemporary paintings, sculptures and murals (complete with a printed guide) grace two galleries, as well as hallways and guest rooms of the hotel, the works selected as well as commissioned by an in-house curator, formerly of the Denver Art Museum.
The hotel’s porte-cochère is a grand entrance featuring a striking electronic canopy of 22,000 computer-programmed patterns of shimmering, undulating LED lights by the world’s premiere light artist, Leo Villareal. The hotel’s inclusion on “best” and “coolest” reviews and lists of accolades and awards is impressive.
Clyfford Still Museum ///////////////////////////////////////////
1250 Bannock Street
The Clyfford Still Museum is home to the world’s most intact public collection of an American artist.
Opened in 2011, the Museum remarkably holds nearly 95% of Still’s total output. Still (1904-1980) is considered to be among the most important and influential painters of the 20th century, a founder of abstract expressionism, along with Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock and a few others.
The Museum holds 800 paintings and 1,600 paper works, as well as complete archival materials, of the enigmatic and reclusive artist, an output never been exhibited publicly.
His will dictated that his art be displayed in a city willing to supply a permanent home for his works. Through the effort of then Mayor John Hickenlooper and the City of Denver, the Still estate awarded the artist’s works to Denver. The Museum has achieved an elite status, a model single-artist museum, “among the best art museum experiences anywhere.”
The Museum has made it possible for the public to explore the full trajectory of the artist’s 60-year career for the first time, through various means, including an innovative school-visit program. The carefully-fashioned concrete brutalist structure sits on a one-acre site landscaped with sycamore trees, and has won multiple architectural awards, having been called the most successful piece of contemporary architecture in Denver.
Denver Art Museum /////////////////////////////////////////////
W. 14th Ave. and Bannock St.
According to Time magazine, the Denver Art Museum belongs on the American Institute of Architect’s top 150 works of architecture of all time.
Founded in 1893, the Denver Art Museum is among the premiere art museums of the world. The DAM has the largest and most comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast, with over 60,000 works.
It was the first United States art museum to begin collecting Native American work. Its collection of American Indian art is one of the largest in the world.
Its pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art collections are considered to be one of the most significant in North America. Internationally, there is no other museum where one can see examples of the major stylistic movements from all the geographic areas and cultures of Latin America.
The Museum’s Berger Collection is one of the largest private individual collections of British art in the world, claiming a breadth unrivaled in the United States, with more than 150 pieces by British artists that covers a period of six centuries.
With a gift from Frederic C. Hamilton, the DAM impressionist art collection is among the most significant in the world. The DAM’s innovative and pioneering education programs have been models for other museums.
The museum’s North Building, the unique “fortress” structure, clad in more than a million triangular tiles of reflective gray glass, was built in 1971 and is the only American building design by Italian architect Gio Ponti.
The museum’s one-of-a-kind titanium-clad Frederic C. Hamilton Building, opened in 2006, is the first American creation by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The building was named one of the Five New Wonders of the World by Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
Dikeou Collection ////////////////////////////////////////////////
16th and California
One of the top private art collections in the world is located in downtown Denver, and is free and open to the public.
The Dikeous Collection of contemporary art features works by approximately 30 international artists. It was established by siblings Devon Dikeou and Pany Dikeou in 1995, operating as an extension of New York publication zingmagazine. Devon Dikeou is an artist and collector, the founder, editor and publisher of zingmagazine.
The Dikeou collection is available for viewing in the historic Colorado Building at 1615 California Street, on the fifth floor, Suite 515.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ////////////////
1485 Delgany Street
Superlatives: national model for a museum as a multimedia cultural hub, with programs and exhibits borrowed and emulated by other museums; nations's first LEED-certified contemporary art museum a rarity of museums, financed entirely by private funds.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is Denver's first museum devoted entirely to contemporary art, at the same time brilliantly re-defining what an art museum does: "MCA Denver is an innovative forum for contemporary art that inspires and challenges all audiences, creating understanding and dialog about the art of our time."
Founded in 1996, the MCAD moved into its permanent Central Platte Valley space in 2007.
In 2009 MCAD merged with The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (The Lab at Belmar), whose founder and executive director Adam Lerner became the Director of the MCAD.
MCAD's environmentally sustainable 27,000-square foot building was the first LEED-certified contemporary art museum, designed by acclaimed UK minimalist-style architect David Adjaye. MCAD's five galleries hold visiting exhibitions on two floors, full of natural light provided by hidden skylights. In addition, the facility houses education and lecture spaces, a bookshop and a roof garden area of outdoor art. MCAD has shined as a multimedia cultural hub and established itself as an innovator and national influencer, its programs and showings have been shared and copied by other museums.
