Rio Gallery’s Homage
In an exhibit at Salt Lake’s Rio Gallery thirty Utah artists say thank you.
Geoff Wichert
Geoff Wichert has degrees in critical writing and creative nonfiction. He writes about art to settle the arguments going on in his head.
Eric Samuelsen’s Borderlands
A review of Eric Samuelsen’s Borderlands, the sold-out play now at Plan B Theatre.
Imitation: What We’re Working On
If you follow our daily posts you might have noticed the Deseret News article cited in yesterday’s Mixed Media that considers two Salt Lake exhibitions under a common theme: inspiration. Because we save the good stuff for our monthly edition, the dailies and weeklies occasionally scoop us, at […]
Jennifer Adams’ Y is for Yorick
A review of Jennifer Adams’ new book Y is for Yorick.
Epic Battle Over the Spiral Jetty
Geoff Wichert responds to the Tribune article on the Spiral Jetty and Epic Brewing mentioned in this week’s Mixed Media feature.
Minerva Cuevas at the UMFA Wednesday
Mexico City artist Minerva Cuevas speaks at the UMFA on Wednesday.
Indigenous Utah Architecture
Research for this month’s article on recent developments in Still Life painting took Geoff Wichert to St. George, where 21st century development around the Tabernacle impressed him as much as the painting he came to see.
Still Life
Geoff Wichert examines the genre in the hands of Charles Becker, Vincent van Gogh and Brad Overton.
Memoir: recollection without tranquility?
by Geoff Wichert Literary tastes lead to literary debates. Readers disagree about subjects and treatments, and one reader’s favorite book is the object of another’s scorn. It is ever thus, and should be; lively opinions make for better, more attentive reading. But what about entire genres? Even those […]
The Arc and the Sediment
In our January edition of 15 Bytes we took a look at Lance Larsen, a 2009 Utah Book Award winner. For this week’s Sunday Reading installment, Geoff Wichert reviews another past winner, novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie. “You have to be careful. This one will write it all down.” The […]
Geoff Dyer and Utah
Magnificent Days: Geoff Dyer makes Utah a habit On January 14, British author Geoff Dyer went public with the story of his obsession for vacationing in Utah. He did so in the Financial Times, a London newspaper read by people who live in the world’s most expensive city, […]
Ken Sanders’ Bureaucratic Nightmare
by Geoff Wichert Last year many Salt Lake residents, who are known for searching the news for local names and familiar faces, were delighted to see downtown bookstore stalwart Ken Sanders recognized as perhaps the nation’s leading enemy of antiquarian book thieves. In The Man Who Loved Books […]
