Art

I can’t be the only one who got in trouble for touching art in museums as a kid. However, Denver Art Museum’s new exhibit encourages this. “Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America” explores the concept of playfulness in postwar America, where disposable income and leisure time were more frequent, as a catalyst for creativity.

Half a millennium after Leonardo da Vinci died, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is paying homage to his enduring influence with a new exhibit, “Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius.”

With the end of Tara Donovan’s collection that took up Denver’s entire Museum of Contemporary Art, three new exhibits have taken its place:

Grab your brushes, bros and bongs and create your own mind-altered masterpiece with Denver-based artist Heidi Keyes during her Puff, Pass and Paint classes.