The Gates Screens This Friday
SLC Film Center changes its name, and screens The Gates at the Salt Lake Art Center.
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Utah Chamber Artists’ Collage Concert
Jennifer Napier-Pearce previews the Utah Chamber Artists’ Collage Concert this month at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.
The Heel Toe Project
In a society where everything seems disposable, photographer Shalee Cooper looks for alternative perspectives. Over the past seven years Cooper has collected twenty-five pairs of used cowboy boots. By buying used Cooper keeps her environmental impact low, but that doesn’t explain the “obsession” that began with a single […]
Frank McEntire’s Spontaneous Memorial
At the Springville Museum of Art last week Frank McEntire installed the tenth-anniversary version of Spontaneous Memorial, the project inspired by the lives lost on September 11th that he has exhibited every year for the past eight.
What To Wear For a Portrait
What would you wear to have your portrait painted? We think a 15 Bytes Tee would look great, but we’re a bit biased. If Lee Cowan was painting your portrait it wouldn’t matter what you wear. In fact, you wouldn’t even have to show up. You just send […]
Goodbye To Summer
For most, Labor Day marks the end of summer, so to everyone who has to get back to the grind of school and regular hours at the office, here are some shots from the last Twilight Concert Series, featuring Lupe Fiasco and Big K.R.I.T. (with a couple of […]
Have You Seen This Lee Greene Richards?
A local family looks for the portrait of their mother painted in 1936 by Lee Greene Richards.
Angela Brown
Angela Brown is the editor/publisher of SLUG Magazine (an acronym for Salt Lake UnderGround). She is also the founder and festival director for Craft Lake City, a yearly alternative arts and crafts festival, held this past month, specializing in showcasing handmade regional contemporary folk art. She lives in downtown Salt Lake […]
Do You Know Where These Trucks Are?
Tell us where these photos were taken and you may win a free 15 Bytes tee shirt.
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 […]
Ruth Lubbers at SUU
If you’re down in Cedar City at the Utah Shakespeare Festival this week schedule a little time to catch Art Access Executive Director Ruth Lubbers at Southern Utah University’s Art Insights. On Thursday, September 1st, at 7 pm she’ll be speaking at the Centrum Arena at the SUU […]
Utah Shakespeare Festival on BYUtv
Tonight BYUtv broadcasts a live performance of the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is the first time in the festival’s 50 year history that a performance has been broadcast live. The play will be performed at the festival’s signature venue, the Adams Shakespearean Theatre, one […]
Comings & Goings: VAI’s New Home, Micol Hebron, and SUU Faculty
The Visual Art Institute (VAI) is finally able to confirm that they have found a new home. They will be occupying the former Exotica Imports, located at 2901 S. Highland Drive. Earlier this year VAI, which also housed GARFO, was forced to move out of their home of […]
Boys of Bonneville
This week Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon declared August 24th (this past Wednesday) Ab Jenkins Day. Though David Abbot “Ab” Jenkins” was mayor of Salt Lake City from 1940 – 1944, his real achievement was as the record-setting race car […]
Novels Set in the Art World
We haven’t had time to put together our next review of art world-related novels (Jean Echenoz’s I’m Gone is on deck – look for it next week), but when we were at Salt Lake’s Main Library we noticed something interesting: on the second floor a display case advertises […]
15 BYTES at SL Gallery Stroll
Salt Lake Gallery stroll is tonight from 6 to 9 pm and 15 Bytes will be out there. We hope you will too. We’ve got multiple prizes to give away tonight so be sure to wear your 15 Bytes tee shirt. If you don’t already have one, stop […]
W.G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS
In our continuing series of book reviews of novels featuring art and artists, Shawn Rossiter reviews W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants.
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow & Other Mixed Media
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.
Edward Burtynsky Comes To Utah
Internationally-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky comes to Utah with an exhibit of photographs entitled The Industrial Sublime that opens today at Weber State University’s Shaw Gallery.
