Throughout history, success has often been linked in the popular imagination with unfair choices: Alexander the Great had to choose a brief life and undying fame or a long life in unending obscurity. Talented women have usually had to choose between art and family. In our era, the […]
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
Geoff Wichert reviews Jorge Rojas’ exhibit of wax encased works now up at Mestizo Gallery.
Review of Crooked Creek, the newly published novel by University of Utah professor Maximilian Werner.
Geoff Wichert takes a look at the incarnation of Jimmie’s at the Westgate Lofts.
Geoff Wichert previews Frank McEntire’s reliQUIERIES exhibit, up this month at Nox Contemporary.
For years Jim Williams has been turning every inch of his house into a work of art. For one week a portion of it comes into public view.
The most exciting art event of the past month, the one that drew the largest, broadest, and most enthusiastic crowd of Utah art lovers—young and old, amateurs and pros, from those who can’t stop making art to those who just love to look—wasn’t the opening of an […]
Geoff Wichert’s review of the exhibition at the UMFA.
In an exhibit at Salt Lake’s Rio Gallery thirty Utah artists say thank you.
A review of Eric Samuelsen’s Borderlands, the sold-out play now at Plan B Theatre.
If you follow our daily posts you might have noticed the Deseret News article cited in yesterday’s Mixed Media that considers two Salt Lake exhibitions under a common theme: inspiration. Because we save the good stuff for our monthly edition, the dailies and weeklies occasionally scoop us, at […]
A review of Jennifer Adams’ new book Y is for Yorick.
Geoff Wichert responds to the Tribune article on the Spiral Jetty and Epic Brewing mentioned in this week’s Mixed Media feature.
Mexico City artist Minerva Cuevas speaks at the UMFA on Wednesday.
Research for this month’s article on recent developments in Still Life painting took Geoff Wichert to St. George, where 21st century development around the Tabernacle impressed him as much as the painting he came to see.
Geoff Wichert examines the genre in the hands of Charles Becker, Vincent van Gogh and Brad Overton.
Literary tastes lead to literary debates. Readers disagree about subjects and treatments, and one reader’s favorite book is the object of another’s scorn. It is ever thus, and should be; lively opinions make for better, more attentive reading. But what about entire genres? Even those who don’t love […]
In the February 2011 edition of 15 Bytes Geoff Wichert reviews Stephen Foss’ exhibit of enamel paintings at Julie Nester Gallery.
