Last week Governor Gary Herbert named BYU professor Lance Larsen the state’s new poet laureate. As the Daily Herald reports, during his five-year term the Springville resident will travel the state “promoting what he calls a lost art form” (read the article here). Larsen, and his artist wife Jacqui Biggs Larsen, have appeared frequently in...
...
read more
The Leo: Taking Stock, and other mixed media.
The Leonardo, Utah’s art-tech-science museum has been open six months now, and in a recent article the Trib’s Glen Warchol takes stock of the museum as well as a look at some recent changes. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/53855547-81/museum-leonardo-says-lake.html.csp Part of Warchol’s article talks about the task the staff at the Leo has of introducing patrons to what is...
... read more
... read more
City Creek and Mixed Media
The big news this week is that City Creek, the downtown Salt Lake City development project including a new mall, opens. We’ll be discussing the aesthetics, design and public impact of the project in the pages of 15 Bytes. Glen Warchol at the Salt Lake Tribune is underwhelmed by the public art he sees at...
... read more
... read more
Getting to Work: Mixed Media This Week
The cover story for this month’s edition of Foreign Policy magazine features 13 “out-of-the-box” ideas to save the world economy from some of the smartest people they know. Number 2, from economist Diane Coyle, is to hire everybody. In the long-run she’d like that the private sector be responsible for full-employment, but in the short...
... read more
... read more
Spiral Jetty Caretakers & Other Mixed Media
Dia Art Foundation recently named two local organizations as stewards of the Spiral Jetty: Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. What does this mean for Robert Smithson’s famous work? Find out at “The Future of Spiral Jetty: Community and Collaboration Panel Discussion.” It will be held at...
... read more
... read more
La Monte Young, A.D. Shaw & Aaron Fritz: Mixed Media This Week
On yesterday’s Radio West, Doug Fabrizio interviewed musicologist Jeremy Grimshaw, author of a new book on LaMonte Young, a local boy who became pioneer in the Minimalist music movement, influencing scores of artists and musicians while remaining relatively unkown to the general public. You can listen to the interview here. And expect a review of...
... read more
... read more
Mixed Media: New Public Art, Sources of Art & Grant Speed
Heading to downtown Salt Lake for Friday’s Gallery Stroll, we snapped this shot of Uof U Architecture graduate Daniel Lyman installing Sway’d (look close, he’s there), his temporary installation that will occupy the space next to the Capitol Theatre until Ballet West’s new dance center is built. Lyman’s work was selected as part of a ...
... read more
... read more
Beth Krensky, Kristina Lenzi, Holly Gornik and other Mixed Media
It struck us as odd the first time we saw 15 Bytes used as a reference source (in a Master’s Thesis we came across in the mid naughts); but it really shouldn’t have, since we’ve become the main source for information on Utah art. Now we see references and quotes from our articles all over...
... read more
... read more
Revolutionaries Symposium & Mixed Media
The Revolutionaries:Vanguards of the 1960′s, RDT’s symposium on artistic developments in the 60s, is tonight, September 28, at 7:00 pm in the Rose Wagner’s Black Box Theatre. Join scholars in discussing the revolutionary concepts and controversial art movements that expanded the frontiers of awareness, challenged the status quo, eliminated traditional artistic vision and virtuosity, and...
... read more
... read more
Mixed Media: Frida Kahlo, Rebecca Jacoby, Andrew Kosorok and others
Here’s a list of recent Mixed Media posts – articles on Utah’s visual arts that have appeared in other sources. You’ll know about most of these if you’ve already read this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, but these will give you another view. Library showcases artist’s big, bold beautiful work Rebecca Jacoby thinks big and...
... read more
... read more
Gregory Stocks, Aaron Bushnell and other Mixed Media
A painting by Utah artist Aaron Bushnell made it on to the cover of Southwest Art’s September 2011 edition. His “Carbon Monoxide Icicles” won first place in the magazine’s 21 under 31 feature. You may remember Bushnell from our 35 x 35 exhibit in 2009. You can watch our video interview with the artist, recorded...
... read more
... read more
