ART MUSEUM
May 14, 2009 11:00 PM
THE GAZETTE
READERS' CHOICE: COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER
When it comes to the Fine Arts Center, Lee Bowers sums it up quite nicely: "Um. Wow!" After a $28.4 million renovation in 2006, the facility boasts both architect John Gaw Meem's stately Pueblo style and airy public spaces able to accommodate the enormous as well as the intimate. Voters cited the free admission days, Dale Chihuly's chandeliers, a solid permanent collection and ambitious traveling shows as reasons to visit again and again. "Better than the Denver Art Museum," wrote one fan, "who needs angled walls?"
30 W. Dale St., 634-5583; csfineartscenter.org
