One of Denver Art Museum’s most
exciting recent installations is Fox
Games by Sandy Skoglund. It’s made
up of 28 resin-cast foxes cavorting
about an elegant all-red dining room
ART PATHS
Our mission to visit the city’s new museums and
cultural attractions was facilitated by an ever-
expanding transportation system that includes
light rail service plus a fl eet of hybrid electric
buses. The new US$110 million wing of the Denver
Art Museum was our initial call. The fi rst structure
in the United States, designed by renowned Polish-
American architect, Daniel Libeskind, the Frederic
C. Hamilton Building is every bit as exciting as
the amazing collections it houses. (Libeskind is
perhaps most famous for having developed the
masterplan for reconstruction of the World Trade
Center following the 9/11 attacks.)
Once inside, we connected right away with
Libeskind’s concept of a design that would exhibit
“a special dance – where two lines fold into each
other without appearing to touch”. Walls seemed
to lean into one another as we zigzagged up a
sharply angled stairwell leading to the multi-level
exhibit galleries.
The Hamilton wing houses one of the
world’s fi nest collections of American Indian art
and artefacts, plus a remarkable assemblage of
African, Oceanic and contemporary art. We were
most impressed with the latter, notable for such
inventive exhibits as local John DeAndrea’s Linda,
a startling life-sized and very life-like polyvinyl
nude, and Fox Games by Sandy Skoglund with
its 28 resin-cast foxes cavorting about an all-red
dining room.
We spent the entire morning in the
Hamilton wing, leaving only briefl y for an alfresco
lunch on the adjacent plaza and a stroll over to
Denver Public Library to view Lipski’s Yearling.
Then we went back for more. To get the most out
of the experience, we urge you to set aside a full
day for the museum visit.
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