Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
The organ. It’s the granddaddy of instruments, a big, loud, all-surrounding piece of machinery/architecture designed to fill out airy cathedrals. Tonight our friends at Salty Cricket present an evening of works devoted to it. Organists Neil Thornock and Haruhito Miyagi will perform ten works by Utah composers, half […]
Tonight Renewal opens at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. In the exhibit “nine artists breathe life into discarded or forgotten objects in this visually striking collection of three dimensional arts.” Curator Jason Lanegan has also asked nine local writers to respond to the works. […]
“R. Crumb Meets the Monkey Wrench Gang: Edward Abbey and the Modern Environmental Movement” is the title of a 3 p.m. talk to be given Sunday March 4 by Ken Sanders in the Gould Auditorium at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. The noted rare book dealer will […]
Ann Poore gives us a taste of what to expect in our upcoming articles on Architecture & Design.
by Laura Durham Starlight on the Rails: And Other Songs is an expanded version of U. Utah Phillips’ earlier songbook published in1973. This new version (released in November 2011) contains 84 songs, complete with chords, lyrics, and background stories written by Utah himself. Bruce Duncan “Utah” Phillips (1935-2008) […]
Russian composers are among some of the most beloved musicians in history. Their music has a romantic and intense quality that can simultaneously touch and break your heart. On Monday February 27, Utah Chamber Artists will present their “Psalms & Symphonies” concert. On the program is Igor Stravinsky’s […]
Art, Music and Charity. It’s hard to beat that combination. This weekend Weird Chief Pictures presents the 3rd annual Submerged in Art, a gathering of Art & Music designed to benefit Salt Lake’s The Road Home homeless shelter. On February 24th and 25th above the Tap Room in […]
For most photographers, finding the right moment to press the shutter is crucial. Dayle Record, whose large, color photographs of the Great Salt Lake, Singular Images: The Lake I Love, are currently on display in Charley Hafen’s cozy, brick-and-glass jewel box of a gallery, handles the critical moment like a painter who first draws her subject, then waits until the sun is right to limn the light and capture the defining moment.
A review of Torben Bernhard and Travis Low’s documentary short about Frisco, Utah, screening this week at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Remember last year, when yarn-bombing was the thing? People were wrapping trees, signs, bikeracks and other objects in yarn. It culminated in the Random Acts of Art (see our article) yarnbombing at the Utah Arts Festival (see our video post). Well, the other day we were driving in […]
Are you heading out to the Salt Lake galleries tonight, and wondering what you should check out? Our February edition of 15 Bytes has a number of articles on shows you can catch tonight, including: The opening reception for 24 x 24 at Alpine Art. Sundance’s New Frontier […]
A few of our local partners recently announced new arrivals. The Leonardo At the beginning of the month The Leonardo announced that Holotype, the large-scale installation that takes up a large chunk of the main floor has been completed. When The Leonardo first opened Holotype was merely a […]
The cover story for this month’s edition of Foreign Policy magazine features 13 “out-of-the-box” ideas to save the world economy from some of the smartest people they know. Number 2, from economist Diane Coyle, is to hire everybody. In the long-run she’d like that the private sector be […]
Local architects respond to the newly announced design for the Kimball Art Center expansion and renovation.
This month Park City’s Public Art Advisory Board installed a new public art piece. “Sheltering Aspens,” by Koryn Rolstad, consists of approximately 75 fabricated “trees” and over 1000 “leaves.” Koryn is a Seattle based artist who was chosen by an RFQ to create a piece in the entry of the newly renovated Marsac Building
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center has announced the winners of their annual statewide competition, juried this year by Adrian Van Suchtelen. Ruth Menlove’s horse made out of driftwood took first place. Simon Winegar’s oil painting of a bright yellow engine won the second place award. And Scott Terrill’s photograph […]
Here’s another photograph from the Utah Arts Council archives. Nine more finalists for an Arts Council Fellowship. Can you name a majority? Those look like Allen Bishop paintings in the background. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 […]
This weekend we visited the studio/theater of Another Language Performing Arts Company on the campus of the University of Utah where Jimmy and Elizabeth Miklavcic are busy getting ready for the 2.0 version of their telematic cinema performance Duel*Ality.
We are preparing a video profile of the creative
