Dana Schutz at the Denver Art Museum

Dana Schutz :: (Image courtesy of the artist and Zach Feuer, New York)

There are still a few days left to see Michigan-born but New York-based artist Dana Schutz's paintings at the Denver Art Museum. (Her exhibit closes Sunday, 1/13). Her work is in the first-floor gallery in the Hamilton Building. No special price beyond general admission to see it. As the exhibit explains, Schutz explores ideas that aren't always spoken or expressed. One painting is about what it FEELS like to sneeze. Another large canvas represents a men's retreat, like the corporate kind of retreat that she would never get invited to. Another, "Swimming, Smoking, Crying" depicts three activities that you wouldn't normally do simultaneously that all involve breathing. Families with kids, beware, there are some naked photos of a woman giving birth and this one, "The Autopsy of Michael Jackson," (painted before Mr. Jackson died. Note the white glove.)

"The Autopsy of Michael Jackson," Dana Schutz :: (Image courtesy of the artist and Zach Feuer, New York)

The exhibit definitely gets viewers talking. ("She has a sense of humor!" "I don't know if kids need to see that (woman giving birth))