PechaKucha Night is here again and will be held (again) at the State Room, 638 S. State St., on June 6. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door but there are rarely tickets left at the door unless you buy them from a scalper and then they...
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Where to Go to Hear and See
The librarian on the City Library’s fourth floor proffered a warning: there hadn’t been enough space to hang everything in the correct order. She referred to the thirteen poems by Lynn Kilpatrick and fifteen drawings by John Sproul that together comprise To Be Unnamed. Probably everyone has an opinion on which works of art look...
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Work to Do, in Art and Dance: Provo Sites and the BYU Museum of Art
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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Views of the West at David Ericson Fine Art
David Ericson says each of the three artists in his current show, “paint what they see and paint what they experience.” Views of the West, up through May 17, provides ample representation from these three contemporary landscape artists — G. Russell Case, Michael Workman and George Handrahan — demonstrating both their passion for the wilds...
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UMFA acquisitions, work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Lawrence Weiner
When Frank Sanguinetti, former director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, introduced the public to the museum’s new building in 2001, a few scratched their heads. The “guava” color of the walls might take some getting used to, they seemed to mumble. In the upper galleries, where paintings and sculpture took up much of...
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Darrell Spencer
Each month we post for your reading enjoyment literary works-in-progress…works soon-to-be-published…or works recently released. The Sunday Blog Read is a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of writers with a Utah connection. And we’re pretty confident you’ll be inspired. So…curl up on the couch with your favorite cup-a-joe and enjoy! * * * Darrell...
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Centennial Valley Arts Celebration
This fall Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes is partnering with the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Education Center for a Celebration of the Arts in remote Centennial Valley, Montana. Featuring a workshop with our Hints & Tips columnist John Hughes, the celebration is open to artists working in any artform. Read the article in...
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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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NOW: Charlotte Boye-Christensen & Nathan Webster’s New Project
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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HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity
What happens after we die? Are we reincarnated either physically or spiritually? Do some of us go to Heaven and some to Hell? Are we reunited personally with a deity or absorbed impersonally into an absolute? Or is death simply the end, with nothing at all awaiting? If these questions intrigue or trouble you, you...
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