I went to the Denver Art Museum (the DAM) yesterday afternoon to check out several new exhibitions, including Other People's Pictures, Gifts From the Robert and Kerstin Adams Collection, which I found quite impressive. This is an exhibit featuring 70 of the photographs photographer Robert Adams and wife Kerstin donated to the museum back in 2018. They are mostly black and white images, taken by a variety of photographers on a variety of subjects, some from the 19th century. Adams achieved fame for his work documenting the changing landscape of the American West. I was expecting most of the photographs would be landscapes of that type, but happily, they were of people, small towns, portraits by Matthew Brady and Yousuf Karsh, and of many other subjects. It was well worth the visit, and I definitely intend to see it again before it closes on February 26th.
I also toured "Who Tells a Tale Adds a Tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art," an exhibit which features the work of 19 contemporary artists with connections to Latin America. One of these artworks, seen in the photograph on the right, features both photos of the Denver neighborhood where the artist grew up, and also photographs he took of people in Latin America, all quite interesting. The exhibit also includes videos of people and various ceremonial events from Latin America, too, which were also pretty fascinating, although I still have mixed feelings about the one featuring a talking cartoon fox. The world is just not ready for that.
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