Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
This Is The Place Monument by Mahonri Young is about as popular as public art gets in Utah. It’s big. It’s multi-cultural (kind of, counting Catholic priests from Spain and Native Americans). It’s Brigham Young. And visitors can tell what it is just by looking at it. It’s […]
The return to regular routines for children and adults alike this week marks an unofficial end to summer for most of Utah, including those of us at 15 Bytes. During most of the summer we have taken a break from our hectic routine, both on the blog and […]
In our effort to keep you up to date on what’s going on in our arts community we’ve been providing links to visual arts-related articles in other sources. We’ve always done this in our Mixed Media feature on the last page of 15 Bytes, but since by the […]
15 Bytes (and EXTRA!EXTRA!) is on vacation for most of June, but here are a few links to keep you busy while we’re gone: 6/3 Art collecting — for the rest of us : Art paints an intimidating picture for those who want to build a collection. Read […]
For most of us in the United States, glamour is synonymous with the Academy Awards. Watching limos lining up to disgorge stars in priceless designer clothes is as close as we get to real celebrity. In the Latino community there are other options. In Long Beach, California, […]
We’d like to welcome photographer Carson Heslop to the 15 Bytes team. Earlier this month Heslop visited the Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll and sent us the following images from his time along Historic 25th Street. These exhibitions are up through the Month of May. The next Art […]
The Park Record reports today that vandals have targeted one of the street art pieces done by British artist Banksy during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. His image of a filmmaker filming a flower being picked by the same filmaker, which has been on the side of Java […]
Becoming Pablo O’Higgins is a study of character that questions identity, integrity, authenticity and ultimately loyalty. This newly released biography by Susan Vogel, published to accompany the exhibit of O’Higgins’ work now at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, gives us a compelling portrayal of Paul Higgins, a young […]
Rebecca C. Durham is the Executive Director of Utah Chamber Artists and has sung with the professional ensemble since it began in 1991. She received an M.A. in Musicology from the University of Utah and was the first director of the School of Music’s Virtuoso Series at Libby Gardner Concert […]
Have you noticed anything different about Salt Lake Art Center lately? More lectures by guest artists (one almost every week)? Greater presence in the social media? And, what’s this? They want feedback from the art community? Saturday afternoon SLAC’s executive director Adam Price formally introduced his latest organizational […]
On a recent trip I picked up two books about the contemporary art world, Everything You Wanted to Know About Gallerists But Were Afraid to Ask, an interview format book dealing with fifty-one gallerists from all over the world that seemed a light enough read to flip through […]
“Although sculpture remains difficult to show, difficult to sell and difficult to own (perhaps the exact reasons why it flourishes so well in the public domain), it seems to me that there is a subtle but growing interest in sculpture and what is sculpture,” says Josh Kanter, a […]
15 Bytes will be holding a casual post-stroll gathering on Friday, March 19th. We will be meeting at Caffe Molise/The Artful Cup (55 West 100 South) immediately following Gallery Stroll. The post-stroll meetings are an opportunity for writers from 15 Bytes to gather after the Stroll and discuss […]
Not really. Even though we hope (were a wealthy donor to finance it) Adam Price would still jump at the opportunity, despite his present duties at the Salt Lake Art Center, the 337 Project is not actually in London. But the Guardian today reported on an art project […]
Women in the Arts: Answering the Question Kathryn Stedham, Mar. 2010 After relocating to the state nearly fours year ago and eager to learn more about Utah’s vibrant Arts community, a recent conversation with 15 Bytes editor and artist, Shawn Rossiter prompted me to ask, how does Utah […]
John Sproul hangs one of his pieces at a campaign event for Peter Corroon. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has yet to officially launch his campaign for governor (that happens on March 17), but already grassroots “affinity” groups are coming together to help him in his Gubernatorial […]
This week’s edition of City Weekly features an interview with Salt Lake Art Center Executive Director Adam Price. Price talks with Ehren Clark (yes, our very own Ehren Clark, who has been known to moonlight for the weekly) about how the 337 Project pulled him into the art […]
In our February edition of 15 Bytes we featured Alex Haworth’s “Smog Lake City,” an evocative visual exploration of Salt Lake’s Main Street under a blanket of inversion. The Salt Lake Tribune picked up on the story and in the paper’s “The Mix” section Ben Fulton wrote “Smog […]
