The applause is still echoing from the Rose Wagner Arts Center. Saturday night, Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen concluded her 11-year run with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and the audience let their appreciation be heard. Dancer Jo Blake, who is also leaving the company, received just as warm a send-off. Turns out, you won’t have...
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Dale Thompson: She Could Be Yours
The April edition of 15 Bytes is going to be so big, so brimming with artistic marvels, so chalk full of poise-perfect prose and eye-snapping images, that you’ll be begging us for mercy. You can thank Dale Thompson. Okay, it’s not all Dale. A lot of people put a lot of work into making each...
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Curtis Olson’s Knowledge Objects
For the Park City Gallery Stroll tonight, (yes, it’s the last Friday of the month already) J GO Gallery is revealing a new body of work by Curtis Olson — three years in the making. The exhibit’s title, Antikythera: Knowledge Objects, is a reference to an ancient Greek relic discovered in a shipwreck at...
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Mike Disfarmer at the UMFA
A look at the UMFA's new exhibit of idiosyncratic photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose portraits of the rural residents of Cleburne County Arkansas have made him a posthumous art star. With a free lecture and movie screening tonight at 7 pm.
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Is 15 Bytes SLC-centric?
Back in November St. George artist Ronald Wilkinson posted a comment to our “Contact” page suggesting — rightly so — that our coverage in southern Utah is wanting. I posted a public reply explaining why it was difficult to get our writers from the Wasatch Front to cover the area, and hoping we might drum...
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New Topographies Tonight
Due to the snow, Finch Lane has canceled their opening tonight but New Topographies at Pinnacle Performance is still on.
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Transformed by Light
David Linn, whose immaculately rendered monochrome images of figures in states of spiritual struggle and enlightenment are well-known in this state, says the creation of art “requires and elicits self discovery.” One of art’s greatest powers are the surprises and revelations that emerge from the artistic process, he says. It can be disillusioning, then, “when...
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Reflections on Venus
In Reflections on Venus, photographer Zuzanna Audette explores costume and space as they create personal identity.
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Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel
We return to our series of reviews of novels set in the art world with Shawn Rossiter's review of Ernesto Sabato's existential classic The Tunnel.
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An Education in Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Cipher reviewed by Shawn Rossiter Ririe-Woodbury Dance’s Cipher, playing Thursday through Saturday at Salt Lake’s Rose Wagner Art Center, is an opportunity. An opportunity for what? There’s no right word for it, or at least not one. For entertainment, yes, because whether you like Glenn Gould, Schubert, the White Stripes or the Black Angels you’ll...
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Back in High School?
by Shawn Rossiter At the Artists of Utah Office Holiday Party this evening I was pleased to meet Austen Diamond, a writer and editor for City Weekly. He told me he mostly writes on music but that in this week’s edition he has contributed two visual arts articles. So I checked them out. One is...
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The Contemporary Art Market
Secrets of the Contemporary Art World? - Shawn Rossiter 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...
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Han van Meegeren
The Forger’s Spell by Edward Dolnick The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathen Lopez reviewed by Shawn Rossiter Art forgers have frustrated and fascinated the art world for years. The critics whose reputations can be ruined by false attributions, and the collectors who find themselves holding a painting worth less than a tenth of what...
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A Mention in Salt Lake Magazine
15 Bytes got a nice mention in "The List" section of the March/April issue of Salt Lake Magazine. So, anyone out there collecting everything 15 Bytes (this means you mom) be sure to pick up a copy at your local newstand. Shawn RossiterThe founder of Artists of Utah and editor of its online magazine, 15 Bytes, Shawn...
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