The opening of Work To Do, an exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art that features the work of Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth & Amy Jorgensen, will also feature dances by choreographers created specifically for the space.
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J. Kirk Richards’ Cristo Series at the Utah Biennial
Mondo Utah, the inaugural Utah Biennial that opened at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art last week, is all about Utah’s traditional parallel types, says museum Senior Curator of Exhibitions Aaron Moulton — the distinctive genres like landscape or outsider art that interact to form the state’s cultural puzzle. This intersection of genres can create...
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Anne Cullimore Decker in The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County
Wives, widows, forbidden love and family secrets…and all in Utah County. Whether you’re intrigued or wondering if this simply describes your family, the world premier of The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County is a play you’re not going to want to miss. Written by Miguel Santana and directed by Alexandra Harbold, this...
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Tandy Beal’s Here After Here
Tandy Beal’s HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity aims to engage the audience in a conversation about death. However, the performance is so full of the joy of life, music, movement and creativity that at times death is left in the wings, although still close enough to remind the audience to appreciate all that’s being...
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ONE FATHER’S APPREHENSION: Interview with memoirist Maximilian Werner
Maximilian Werner will read from and sign copies of his memoir Gravity Hill at the King’s English Bookshop 1511 S. 1500 E. Salt Lake City Friday May 10, 2013, 7 pm. Maximilian Werner’s memoir Gravity Hill contains stories nested inside other stories. In its framing tale, we meet Max about five years ago, a young...
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A Tale of Two Readings
Literary readings are curious animals. They’re the writers’ primary public event to see and be seen, hear and be heard. But what are they really? Theater? A discussion? Celebrity sighting? Two readings in April, one following the other, became a study in contrasts for me. The first, the annual release of sine cera, a DiverseCity...
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A Night with the Family
For many, Christmas comes with a concentrated dose of dysfunctional family “fun.” Anyone who didn’t get theirs this year can find it at A Night with the Family, Matthew Ivan Bennett’s new play being staged by Pygmalion Productions. The comedy takes us back to the holiday with an energetic performance that audiences will either find a hilarious...
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Phil Barlow: Artist Profile
Philip Barlow doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, boxed in as this kind of painter or that kind. The 80-years-young artist says he keeps “one foot in the box and the other outside – exploring the unexplored.” That’s why, in his exhibit this month at Phillips Gallery, you’ll see a few moody landscapes, some narrative still...
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Sam Wilson: At play among the masterworks
A new Sam Wilson isn’t just the most recent example of the same thing, like a comedian’s latest joke or a hack writer’s newest story. While the qualities that bring his fans coming back are still here—the wit, the gentle teasing of art’s academic side, the superb drawing, the dynamic balance between realistic and...
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Traci O’Very Covey & Denis Phillips in Ogden
You probably know Traci O’Very Covey’s work from the year’s she did design work for the Utah Opera; and Denis Phillips is one of the better known artists in the state. In this new exhibit, at Ogden’s Gallery at the Station, both artists exhibit new bodies of works that may come as surprises to their fans....
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Getting Religion at Kayo Gallery
If the two devoutly-to-be-wished consummations are magnificent visuals and the ability to render visible wonders that would otherwise be invisible, the holy grail (so to speak) of religious art combines the two in works that bestride the realms of realism and imagination. This month, two very different ways to this goal face each other across...
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David Kranes: Dramaturgy of Space
David Kranes will tell you he’s driven. Since his arrival in Utah from his home in New England in 1967, he has taught students at the University of Utah Creative Writing Program, directed the Sundance Playwright’s Lab, written 7 novels and now, with his recently released The Legend’s Daughter (Torrey House Press) three volumes of short stories...
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Janell James’ Studio Space
Salt Lake artist Janell James has been busy this spring. In April she started showing with Coda Gallery in Park City and 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake (where she’s currently part of a group exhibit), and this month she’s headed to Santa Fe with a 10-foot trailer full of art. She’ll be back in...
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Tony Smith Rides Again
Legend has it . . . Tony Smith would arrive at class with a pan of white paint and a roller, ready to cover up all the portions of a student’s paintings he didn’t like. He would throw a student’s materials into the hallway, yelling “Get Out! I don’t want you in my class!” when...
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Death in the Present: Katharine Cole’s The Earth Is Not Flat
Katharine Coles couldn’t trust her senses. On a grant from the National Science Foundation, she boarded a ship to cross the infamous Drake Passage, the world’s roughest crossing, to live in Antarctica. For the celebrated writer, it was a hunt for poetry and instability, a dislocation from ordinary life. But she also found fear, the...
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