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The Black Love Art & Crypto Gallery (The B.L.A.C. Gallery) at the Art Place in Denver Courtesy of IRL Art
The frenzy around NFT art is now entering the physical realm, from CryptoPunks being displayed on billboards around Miami to a major NFT exhibition, Virtual Niche Have you ever seen memes in the mirror?, which has just closed at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Compounding this trend, bricks-and-mortar commercial galleries specialising in non-fungible tokens are also popping up.
In March, Superchief gallery opened a New York space that is being touted as the world s first physical NFT gallery and is currently showing 300 artists’ works on high-resolution screens, alongside NFT drops online (until 25 May).
The nonprofit River North Art District, founded in 2005, and the nonprofit street-art festival Crush Walls, founded in 2010, were virtually synonymous for a few years, married by contract and constantly collaborating. Even as artists complained about being gentrified out of RiNo and the surrounding neighborhoods involved with the district, the graffiti and murals multiplying on the walls every year ensured that the area’s reputation as an art hub kept growing.
Along the way, founder Robin “Dread” Munro became a darling of the street-art world and developers alike. For more than a decade, he bridged the gap between testosterone-fueled graffiti crews around Denver and officials who were trying to stop an explosion of vandalism while empowering up-and-coming artists and also getting them paid. In 2017, the year Crush Walls won Mayor Michael Hancock’s Arts & Culture Innovation Award, Munro teamed up with the district; with the two working together, the festival attracted an es
Denverite, the Denver site! Sexual assault allegations, violence, bullying: Women say Denver’s street art scene and its leaders have failed them
Allegations against the founder of the largest, most popular street art festival in Denver have circulated for years. RiNo just parted ways with him.
Surrounded by friends and supporters, Robyn Frances stands in front of a mural dedicated to the women of Denver s art scene, off Larimer Street in Five Points RiNo district, that was recently defaced. Dec. 19, 2020. Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Feb. 22, 2021, 9:34 a.m.
This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault.
On September 21, one day after the 2020 CRUSH Walls had ended, Robyn Frances wrote a post on Instagram that sent shockwaves through Denver’s art scene.