The Denver Art Museums current exhibit “The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area 1965-1971″ is a joy. Where so many museum exhibits offer well honed journeys through the past, this retrospect of the era that kicked the art of the concert poster into the stratosphere still seems fairly futuristic. It’s a contact high to be sure, capturing the spirit and the time that began in the Summer of Love and ran just past Altamont. They’ve been wise to just focus on this slice of Everything That Happened, so don’t expect a precise retrospect of every album that was released, every band that came and went, every little hit of blotter acid. The poster art presents the hippie era at ground zero with not much more of an agenda than that. The ambient music is a limited playlist, but it blends well into the background. When you see the three posters that were designed for light, you’ll wonder why they didn’t do more. And the recreation of the flower child’s living room has just about everything except a bag of herb on the table. Or maybe it was there and somebody copped it. Regardless, see this exhibit before it wears off in mid-July. Also don’t miss the Denver based Family Dog art, the Fillmore Midwest if you will. Turn on, tune in, drop fifteen bucks. An hour later and you’be be demanding to be sent back in time.