Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a documentary that explores Anselm Kiefer's city of ruins and art in southern France, is now screening in select cities in the United States.
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In Utah: How To Buy Art
If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to pick up this week’s copy of In Utah, in which Daisy Blake’s cover article “How To Buy Art” provides advice from artists, gallerists and collectors on how to go about collecting art. Featured in the article are: Established Artist John Bell Emerging Artist Justin Carruth Artist/Gallery...
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Speaking of Community Input . . .
Yesterday’s post mentioned the Kimball Art Center’s desire to gain public input for their Transformation Project. In nearby Coalville the Summit County Public Art Advisory Board has decided to make public input the deciding factor in a new public art sculpture. They have placed eight sculptures around town and asked residents and tourists alike to...
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Kimball Art Center’s Transformation Project
A lot of our Mixed Media articles from the past week concern the Park City Arts Festival, a project of the Kimball Art Center (see below). One of the Kimball’s projects that hasn’t yet hit the headlines is their new Transformation Project, a building project announced last week. The Kimball Art Center began when Bill...
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Public Art and Private Scandals: Mixed Media
Here are a couple of interesting articles that appeared in the state’s major newspaper last week. In her July 24th article The Deseret News’ Carma Wadley tracks Utah’s public art history: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700165734/Public-art-State-funds-dedicated-to-create-works-for-all.html This month’s edition of 15 Bytes will feature an artist profile of Brian Swanson, a sculptor who has a number of public art...
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How Come Salt Lake’s Not Like . . .
If you hang around Utah’s art community long enough you’ll hear a version of the discussion, “How come Salt Lake’s not like ___________?” Oftentimes the blank is filled by “New York” or “San Francisco;” sometimes by more modest comparisons: Portland, Seattle or Minneapolis. But you’ve probably never heard “Raleigh” or “Richmond” as the source of...
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Bad News for the Arts
The Utah Cultural Alliance reports that Kansas has become the first state without an arts agency. Governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission after the legislature voted to fund the commission over his objections. Read the article here. The UCA also reports that the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee voted to...
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Fibonacci Visits the Desert and LA Artists Come to Utah to Get Fruity: Mixed Media This Week
5/16 Lamplight show highlights beauty in the shadows. http://clippertoday.com/view/full_story/13294316/article-Lamplight-show-highlights-beauty-in-the-shadows?instance=secondary_stories_left_column 5/17 Art exhibit to connect Utahns with our fallen fruits. Don’t be surprised if you’re befuddled on hearing about the Fallen Fruit Collective’s upcoming exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center. Something deceptively simple-sounding sweeps you into profound artistic concepts. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51825165-81/fruit-art-fallen-exhibit.html.csp 5/18 Seeing ourselves through artists’...
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Stacked Scriptures, Ogden River Art, and Trouble at the Fork: Mixed Media This Week
5/4 BYU exhibit skirts controversy. Artist sculpts sacred Mormon scriptures and other LDS-themed books into a thought-provoking work. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51742275-81/books-art-bateman-museum.html.csp 5/4 Ogden spends big to get a ‘significant’ public artwork Ogdenites soon will be able to watch as the city’s most expensive piece of public art is created to celebrate the Ogden River and its ecosystem....
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Christo, Bikinis and Gnomes: Mixed Media This Week
The big Utah art news this week is that world-renowned environmental artist Christo is in town. He won’t be wrapping any buildings or hanging fabric across our local landscape, but he will be appearing at the University of Utah Tuesday to speak about his work. The event is sold out, but you can hear him...
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Internment Art, Borderlands, and Utah Dough: Mixed Media This Week
Tomorrow on Radio West, host Doug Fabrizio interviews playwright Eric Samuelsen about Borderlands, his new play about coming out in Mormon culture that opens this week at Plan B Theatre. You can listen to the interview at 11 am and 7 pm tomorrow on KUER. You’ll be able to read our review of the play...
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Ron Russon, Random Acts & Homage: Mixed Media This Week
Media articles collected by Terrece Beesley include an interview with Ron Russon, Homage at Rio Gallery, Random Acts of Art at Utah Arts Alliance and the Finch Lane Show.
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