The Denver Art Museum in March 2024. Photo: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images
One of Denver's most celebrated fine arts museums this spring will showcase couture fashion, Australian Indigenous works and perhaps the weirdest utensils ever imagined.
Zoom in: The Denver Art Museum and The Kirkland currently house over a dozen unique exhibitions, but more will arrive in the coming months.
Here are current and upcoming exhibitionscatching our eyes:
"Conversation Pieces" will display more than 60 designs — many for the first time — from the museums collection, including a gown donated by the wife of the man who designed DAM, Gio Ponti. Now on view.
"Knife Fork Spoon" will bend your mind with utensils straight out of a Dr. Seuss book, featuring 150 flatware sets from 1900 to 2026. Debuts May 17.
"Space Is the Place" explores designs from the Space Age, the Cold War-era time when everyday objects took on futuristic aesthetics with rounded designs and bold colors. Now on view.
"What We've Been Up To: People" features photographs of ordinary people made fascinating muses by acclaimed artists and unknown ones, spanning from the 1890s to today. Now on view.
If you go: General admission costs $22 for Colorado residents and free for those 18 and younger.
The museum will be free April 26, May 12, June 9 and July 14.