Opera Colorado celebrates 25 years of grand opera in Denver with a special concert opera of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, featuring James Morris, the world's premiere Wagnerian bass. The Flying Dutchman is a limited engagement with only two performances, April 18 & 20, 2008.

Don't miss Inspiring Impressionism, on view at the DAM through May 25, 2008. Shedding new light on one of art history's most important movements, Inspiring Impressionism features 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections.

Following the popular and successful exhibitions of stunningly original quilts designed by the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will host its sequel, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, April 13 through July 6, 2008. The critically acclaimed show features 49 unique quilts created from the 1920s through 2005 by four generations of women from this small, isolated farming community.

Investigate the themes, threads and riffed ideas of the Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) newest exhibition Inspiring Impressionism at the final Friday event Untitled #13 (Riff), March 28, 6-10 p.m. Denver’s creative crowd can examine the connection between Old Masters and Impressionist icons while enjoying the works of masters like El Greco, Monet and Renoir.

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced today that it will host Daniel Richter: A Major Survey, the first U.S. museum exhibition for the acclaimed contemporary German artist. Curated by Denver Art Museum's Christoph Heinrich, the exhibition will feature more than 25 large-format paintings and a selection from a series of more than 400 small format works.

Screened in conjunction with Inspiring Impressionism, the Denver Art Museum Cinema's spring film series presents a unique program on cinematic influence and homage. From such pairings as The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown to The Searchers and Taxi Driver, the eight-film series spotlights the rich and diverse influences celebrated classics had on succeeding films – and their impressionable makers.

Shedding new light on one of art history's most important movements, Inspiring Impressionism runs through May 25, 2008. Organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM), the exhibition features more than 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States.

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced today that it has acquired a collection of approximately 875 artistically and historically significant psychedelic rock posters from the 1960s and ‘70s. These works demonstrate the innovative American typography, collage, illustration and use of color from this revolutionary cultural era.

Inspiring Impressionism will shed new light on one of art history's most important movements when it opens on February 23, 2008. Organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM), the exhibition features more than 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States.

Opera Colorado presents Gaetano Donizetti's rousing comedy of disguise and deception, Don Pasquale, which runs for five performances, February 8th through 17th, 2008. Tickets are available for this production which has toured to rave reviews across the United States and Canada. Restaged in the Wild West, the opera hits Denver in perfect time to keep the momentum of the National Western Stock Show going strong.

Gold. Even the word dazzles. Discovery. Splendor. Wealth. And the power to shape history. The largest collection of gold ever to be exhibited is coming to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science from February 15 to June 8, 2008.

MacGillivray Freeman's extraordinary giant-screen adventure The Alps about Europe's greatest mountain range and one man's quest to climb the infamous North Face of the Eiger opens Friday, January 11, in Phipps IMAX Theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.