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 featuring work by Michael Pribich and Esperanza...
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Twelve Minutes Max Premieres Sunday
New performance venues in Salt Lake, including the Dunce School for the Arts' 12 Minutes Max series, premiering Sunday, May 20.
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UTA Bus Shelter Murals & Other Mixed Media
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 artists still in High School, or even...
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Salvador Dali’s Line: Yes
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 the genre-crossing nature of the contemporary artist,...
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Sugarhouse Art Walk
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 in the capital city to see them...
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Art Pillars
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.
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Lance Larsen New Poet Laureate & Other Mixed Media
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 Jacqui Biggs Larsen, have appeared frequently in...
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Reuben Nakian’s “Juno”
In this month’s 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 was a professor of art at Brigham...
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Show a Little Love
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.
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Brian Christensen at Finch Lane
A review of Brian Christensen's exhibit of sculptures and installations at Finch Lane Gallery.
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Up and Down The Creek: Stephen Goldsmith on City Creek
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."
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