Utah Heritage Foundation will host the 41st Annual Homes Tour on Saturday, May 5, on Salt Lake’s Millionaires Row – South Temple Street. First envisioned in Joseph Smith’s Plat of the City of Zion, South Temple was meant to be the finest and most prominent avenue in Salt Lake City, as well as a model...
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St. George’s Art Around the Corner 2012
Because of the upcoming launch of our Art Lake City app we’ve been talking a lot about public art in the capital city. But of course Salt Lake isn’t the only Utah town that invests in public art. For the past 8 years, Art Around the Corner has served as a conduit for the introduction...
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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...
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Icon: Hooked on Jesus
Today’s post comes from the Renewal exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Hikmet Sidney Loe’s literary response to Frank McEntire’s “Hooked on Jesus.” You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the UCCC through April 25. Icon: Hooked on Jesus We surround ourselves with omens, with icons. Our chosen objects murmur...
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Making Up Stories: Fatima Ronquillo at Meyer Gallery
Geoff Wichert daydreams about Fatima Ronquillo, whose works are on exhibit at Meyer Gallery beginning Friday, March 30.
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Composition in Black Gold and Red
For this month’s In Plain Site page 2 photo essay Salt Lake photographer Portia Snow has been out shooting her “neighborhood,” an area that begins in the Avenues and stretches down to the new development at City Creek. Portia wasn’t shy with the shutter, so we won’t be able to run all her shots in...
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Stories with Figures
Italian author Antonio Tabucchi died Sunday of cancer. Little was made of his passing in the states, though most European papers noted his achievements, and in the English-speaking world the BBC remarked on his career (Tabucchi has been a contender for the Man Booker International Prize). It’s a shame that Tabucchi is little known here,...
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Singing in the Tub
Today’s post comes from the Renewal exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Matthew Moore’s response to Suzanne Larson’s “Sonja Singing in the Tub.” You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the UCCC through April 25. Read our profile on Suzanne Larson in the December 2007 edition of 15 Bytes....
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Poor Yorick at Ten
Ten years ago Poor Yorick Studios held its first Open Studio Event at its downtown Salt Lake location (we introduced our readers to the studios, and its founder Brad Slaugh, in our October 2002 edition of 15 Bytes). In 2006 the Salt Lake location closed and Slaugh moved the circus to a new location in...
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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...
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Our Readiness For Contemporary Music
Camille Pack describes her experience at the Utah Symphony's World Premiere of Michael Jarrell's Emergences (Nachlese VI).
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Full Steam Ahead: Laura Sharp Wilson at House Gallery
If you're wondering what to see during Gallery Stroll this evening, take a look at Geoff Wichert's preview of the Laura Sharp Wilson retrospective at House Gallery.
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