On the Spot: Salt Lake City artist Dana Costello WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? There’s quite a pile of books by my bed right now, but I have been focusing on a biography of Remedios Varo called “Unexpected Journeys.”WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? I don’t have a […]
Ogden Artist Suzanne Kanatsiz on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? “The Secret Life of Bees” and “Animals in Translation.” WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? We don’t really have a mantel, but we do have a big red dot painted on our wall. A power spot. […]
Karen Horne on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’m currently reading Byron Katie’s “I need your Love – Is it True?”. This book explores the universal quest for approval and I’m fascinated by how this search can affect or even interfere with our true paths as […]
Darryl Erdmann on the spot: WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? Robert Frost poetry. I don’t read as many books as I used to. With poetry, you can let it sit for two or three days and then read it again and get something different from it. WHAT IS […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? espn.com WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? My favorite baseball player from Oklahoma is Mickey Mantle. IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ANY ARTST, LIVING OR DEAD, TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR PORTRAIT WHO WOULD IT BE? Yeah right, I’d like to see a dead […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? As much as I can — “A Girl Named Zippy” by Haven Kimmel, “Another Beauty” by Adam Zagajewski, The New Testament, the 1956 Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book, a 1774 Anicent Songs and Ballads collection, and, of course, Lance Larsen’s latest poems and […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? Bills and financial statements. Ah, reality . . . WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? A dried up, dusty wreath on the verge of spontaneous combustion. No, really. WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR PORTRAIT? Peter Paul Reubens. Not because […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? I’ve been reading a lot of theory right now, like Daniel Bell. I need to for the art classes I teach. I also just read the “Da Vinci Code * I’m a teacher so I have to keep up with the trends too.. […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? Most recently I’ve reread “Edward Hopper Watercolors.” I’m slowly reading though the third Harry Potter before the movie comes out. I’m also halfway through “Reign of the Stavka” — kind of a mystery action intrigue conspiracy novel. I usually make it through […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? I usually have 2 or 3 (or 4 or 5 or 6) books going at the same time. I actually even finish some of them; others are little more than browsed through (things like money or politics, I would have to be […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? “I’ve revisited a lot of books lately. I’ve read Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter to keep up with the kids. I’ve read Hugh Nibley’s collected essays and The Bourne Identity.” WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO PAINT YOUR PORTRAIT? Henry Moore. […]
WHAT ARE YOU READING THESE DAYS? Lately I have been reading The Book of Mormon (again), but I also have been reading a trilogy of books by Phillip Pullman, “The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife” and the “Amber Spyglass.” They are listed as juvenile literature. I read them […]
