Fine Arts Critic
Ray Mark Rinaldi
Ray Mark Rinaldi (media@rayrinaldi.com) is a veteran arts writer and critic based in Denver.
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In the middle of a busy Denver building, standout art stays out of the way
The McNichols Building is one of Denver’s most prominent showplaces for visual art, but itap notoriously hard to stage an exhibit there.

For photography, a new way forward at RedLine art center exhibit
The exhibit attempts to capture photography at the height of its 21st century disruption and goes to great lengths in its efforts.

Not everyone’s going to like Dáreece Walker’s in-your-face drawings on display in Colorado Springs
"Force/Resistance" is the kind of audacious art exhibit that can get a museum in hot water.

At DU, a climate change exhibit that’s thoughtful, shocking and sometimes even humorous
From seed rockets activated by forest fires to the plastic bag-strewn entrails of a camel, "Storm Warning" can be as comical as it is crucial.

The Curtis unveils massive, “irresistible” new murals throughout downtown Denver hotel
The murals -- more than 1,600 square feet in total -- decorate the glass-enclosed elevator vestibules off the downtown hotel's parking garage.

Denver’s Biennial of the Americas sets September comeback with parties, art, music and more
The biggest public offering will be "Biennial Night," which will feature an international lineup of performers at Denver's Civic Center Park. That free event closes the festival on Sept. 15.

Rinaldi: “Mi Tierra” is the most important contemporary art exhibit DAM has produced in years
For Mexican-Americans, the idea of a border wall between the two countries can be soul-splitting. Instead of encouraging you to be this and that, it wants you be one or...

Old photos are remixed to explore life and legacy in new Denver exhibit
For this exhibit, titled "Throw My Ashes Into the Sea," the primary raw materials are black-and-white portraits of ordinary people taken early in the 20th century.

Rinaldi: For Christo, “Over the River” process was more important than completion
To quit, out of the blue, and blame politics is pure Christo, another genius move by the international art world’s most revered genius.

94-year-old “party girl” shares life retrospect in light-based sculptures as vision fails
Tanner works, essentially, in light, making sculptures out of arranged acrylic pieces that illuminate in glowing reds, blues, greens, pinks.