UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Granite Furniture building in Sugarhouse, empty for half a decade, is finally being transformed. We’re not sure what to make of the architectural renderings for what the new owners, Boulder Ventures, plan on doing with the space (“uninspired” comes to mind, but the image is small so […]
We’ve just received word from the Salt Lake Arts Council that Artists of Utah’s third 35 x 35 exhibit will open at Salt Lake’s Finch Lane Gallery in March of 2013. 35 x 35 is our showcase of art by Utah’s young generation. The exhibit features work by […]
If you attend the Utah Symphony Saturday night for the final symphony in Thierry Fischer’s season-long Beethoven Cycle (since Fischer is performing them backwards it’s actually Beethoven’s first symphony), you’ll also catch the final performance of violinist Frances Darger. Now 87, Darger has been with the orchestra for […]
John Cage once said, “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” Fascination with noise is at the heart of Flinching Eye Collective, a Denver-based performance group that embraces, attacks and […]
Emily Johnson is a recent graduate from the University of Utah’s History MA program and the new collections registrar at Utah Arts & Museums. During her time at the U, she focused heavily on public history and art, and co-curated an exhibit for the Utah Museum of Fine […]
For the May Gallery Stroll tonight there’s so much going on you’ll have to make some difficult choices. Here’s a bit of where our crew is heading tonight. Fresh back from some international travels, Geoff Wichert headed over to Mestizo Arts this week to see the new show […]
New performance venues in Salt Lake, including the Dunce School for the Arts’ 12 Minutes Max series, premiering Sunday, May 20.
As the Standard Examiner reports, an exhibit currently in Washington Terrace (Weber County) features murals that have already or will soon be installed in UTA bus shelters. The works are by locals, from well-known artists like Earl Jones, whose work is scheduled to be installed in Kaysville, to […]
We’re not generally the type of blog to share YouTube videos – piano-playing cats and the like. But in recognition of his birthday today, we thought you might like this appearance by Salvador Dali on the 1950s television show “What’s My Line?” Watch as, in a foreshadowing of […]
by Nicholas Wellls Do you own the copyright to any creative works? If you’re an artist, you do, whether you’ve registered the copyright or not. Anything you create is copyrighted. These days, the place where your copyrighted work is most likely to be used without your permission is […]
If you’ve read this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, you know Local Colors of Utah is now in Sugarhouse. A detail you might have missed in the article is that Sugarhouse now has its own Art Walk, a welcome event since there are far too many art openings […]
Ruth Lubbers, Nancy Boskoff and Stephanie Harpst to speak at Culture Bytes and Dr. Vern G. Swanson to retire from the Springville Museum of Art.
Last week Governor Gary Herbert named BYU professor Lance Larsen the state’s new poet laureate. As the Daily Herald reports, during his five-year term the Springville resident will travel the state “promoting what he calls a lost art form” (read the article here). Larsen, and his artist wife […]
In the May edition of 15 Bytes we featured an interview between curator Frank McEntire and sculptor Neil Hadlock, whose work is being featured at Nox Contemporary this month. As discussed in the article, Hadlock’s abstract forms have become familiar parts of Utah’s outdoor artistic landscape. When Hadlock […]
Ever since an early version of this month’s edition was leaked online, rumors have been flying around the internet that the May edition features a shot of our esteemed editor as Botticelli’s Venus. Is it true? You’ll have to read “Show a Little Love” to find out. 15 […]
City planner Stephen Goldsmith takes a look at the new City Creek project and worries “we are burying our heads about the importance of authenticity.”
Though over the past couple of years we’ve been able to capture interviews with a number of Utah artists, we have a ways to go before we’ll catch up with Claudia Sisemore.
by Kelly Green Sarinda Jones’ Salt Lake studio if full of color, but little of it comes from paint. The jars on her shelf are full of small pieces of colored glass, and shards in a hundred shades can be found all over her studio. An active […]
