Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Diamonds are a modern tenth-anniversary present, but that seems too unoriginal for Plan-B’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. What would be the right thing for a fantastically outrageous play that bills itself as, “Sex, drag, and rock ‘n roll. The anatomically incorrect, glam-rock musical”? For starters, […]
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Being an informed local citizen means knowing your city: knowing its neighborhoods, its architecture, its natural and its human-made wonders. It makes living in the city a richer experience, and inspires one to become engaged in the public process of creating a city. That’s why this month we […]
Though graffiti artists are almost always outdoors when they work, we usually don’t think of paint cans when we think plein air. Which may explain why when we mentioned a list of plein air events in last week’s blog post we failed to mention the Urban Arts Festival, […]
Salt Lake’s Kayo Gallery is moving. Though the move isn’t geographically very big — owner Shilo Jackson will be taking over the space adjacent to hers, recently vacated by Frosty Darling, allowing the former Kayo Gallery to be home to the expanding Green Ant furniture store — Jackson […]
A look at the upcoming plein air competitions with over $20,000 in prizes, including the Ogden Arts Festival competition, which begins this weekend.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This weekend is Clay Arts, Utah’s annual Empty Bowls fundraiser to feed the homeless. Here’s how it works: Local artists make handcrafted bowls and donate them to the cause. Patrons (that’s you) purchase a bowl for $15. The bowl is filled with soup and a side of bread. […]
