Repertory Dance Theatre’s Current included five dances presented one after the other, after the other, and yet… after another. Because they were all made recently, they are a reflection of “right now”; they are current. To begin, the silhouettes of Justin Bass and Tyler Orcutt spoke their way across the stage, […]
People tend to see something one way until someone shows them another. —Frank McEntire Anyone who knows the art of Frank McEntire, whether sculpture, mixed media, or assemblage, will have witnessed his technique of bringing together found objects, often in the presence of natural materials like stone and […]
“No one can tell you what you are worth; that is for you to decide. So we hope you’ll decide to be brave. To be strong. To be beautiful.” These words from the home webpage of peculiar literary journal capture the aspirations of the team that directs and curates this […]
Jordan Park, on Salt Lake City’s west side, is home to the city’s International Peace Gardens, which features a variety of small park settings from different cultures around the world. It’s also home to these murals, painted on the building that abuts the skatepark and is visible from […]
Rock Canyon Poets co-founder Trish Hopkinson recently interviewed Beat poet Neeli Cherkovski, who is in town this week for readings in Provo and Salt Lake City, to find out more about who he is as a poet and how he approaches writing poetry.
It may not look like a skydive in the still photographs, but in the Rose Wagner it feels real enough that you easily buy into several jumps in their entirety — preceded as they are by the rich sounds of plane vibrations and actors seeming to shake right […]
The Utah Arts Alliance’s SLC Arts Hub is home to a number of publicly visible street art murals.
Salt Lake City’s bungalows are charming, but let’s be honest, they all kind of look alike. Not the case with this bungalow, on the corner of Williams Ave. and 400 East.
The term “Renaissance man” is heard a lot, but Paul Anderson, who died suddenly the night of March 23, certainly ranks among them. An artist, architect, educator, curator and composer, he restored historic LDS buildings; sang in the Utah Symphony Chorus for years; has several songs in the […]
It’s always easier to tell a story when it’s over, when you’ve arrived at a place recognizable as a destination, to have things tidily wrapped up despite whatever struggle or confusion might have preceded it, to know what it was all about, what it means. This isn’t one […]
When the “blue nudes took themselves off the canvas,” writes poet Laura Stott, “It wasn’t easy getting out from behind the glass.” Blue Nude Migration: A Painting and Poetry Collaboration, an exhibit by Laura and her sister Katheryn Stott currently on display at the Anderson-Foothill Branch of Salt […]
In a 2002 piece for 15 Bytes, art historian and U of U Dean Bob Olpin wrote that the Springville Museum’s Spring Salon contained “one of the finest Bill Whitaker pretty girl paintings I’ve ever seen.” That was saying a great deal, considering the skill of this artist, […]
Our colleague and friend Tom Alder died on July 3, 2018. Tom was a collector of art and stories. His passion for Utah art drove him to give up a successful career in banking to become a gallerist, and his love of the stories (verifiable or not) behind that art drove him to pursue an art history degree and, for several years, to write a regular column for our pages about the colorful lives of Utah artists - from the painter who slept in a piano to the university professor who faked his car registration decals.
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