Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
You may not have realized it, but this has been a season of Mendelssohn for the Utah Symphony. Music Director Thierry Fischer programmed Felix Mendelssohn’s five symphonies for the 2012-2013 season and this weekend the Symphony will conclude the performance cycle with a concert featuring the first and […]
For the Park City Gallery Stroll tonight, (yes, it’s the last Friday of the month already) J GO Gallery is revealing a new body of work by Curtis Olson — three years in the making. The exhibit’s title, Antikythera: Knowledge Objects, is a reference to an ancient […]
It’s coming. March 8th. At Finch Lane Gallery. Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibition, a look at thirty-five artists under the age of thirty-five. Video, sculpture, painting, printmaking, ceramics, performance, installation and drawing. In one gallery. Conversing. And here’s the lineup, selected from over 100 entries by Artists of […]
Maybe you missed gallery stroll last Friday or you just didn’t get enough. We’ve got you covered. This Friday, CONCEPT is hosting its grand opening. The latest addition to the Granery District is a gallery and eco-friendly furniture store founded by Jeffrey Potts, John Harris, and Jeff Barker. […]
Another Language Performing Arts Company continues to push boundaries and redefine theatre. Think back to geometry class and mapping points on a grid. The x-axis runs horizontally and the y-axis runs vertically. It’s a two-dimensional plane. But then there is the z-axis, a visual representation of our three-dimensional […]
A traveling exhibit of mummies from around the world takes over The Leonardo, the UMFA mounts an exhibit of works depicting the American Indian and LEGOs are the building blocks for sculptures at the Kimball Art Center.
Artworks can make visible the success of their makers, but to understand the struggles that produced them, and so the triumph they represented, something more is needed. Paul Cézanne was an artist who mastered his chops long before he was accepted by the gatekeepers, and the stories of […]
Greg Stocks, a local painter, has fond memories of his late professor Harrison “Grout” Groutage, who passed away on February 5 at the age of 87. In the mid-80’s, Stocks took a watercolor class from Groutage and found himself in the instructor’s office for a personal critique. “I […]
Get ready, 35X35 is coming! After we closed up our entry form Friday night we realized we had received over 100 entries for our upcoming 35X35 exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery. Our board of directors has their work cut out for them winnowing all the great entries down […]
One of Britain’s most famous artists, David Hockney has survived the various “funerals” held for the art he has practiced for over five decades: painting. His works from the sixties and seventies – paintings of swimming pools and portraits of his friends – have become iconic images of […]
The authors and publishers of Torrey House Press descend on Weller Book Works Saturday to discuss their work and what it’s like to write and publish books in the “new” West.
A look at the UMFA’s new exhibit of idiosyncratic photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose portraits of the rural residents of Cleburne County Arkansas have made him a posthumous art star. With a free lecture and movie screening tonight at 7 pm.
We’ve always thought Sundays are a great day for reading — whether in an easy chair with your favorite paper, curled up on a couch with a good book or out in the park with your favorite ereader. With that in mind, we’re going to be running a […]
Back in November St. George artist Ronald Wilkinson posted a comment to our “Contact” page suggesting — rightly so — that our coverage in southern Utah is wanting. I posted a public reply explaining why it was difficult to get our writers from the Wasatch Front to cover […]
Herding cats is never easy, and when the Sundance Film Festival comes to town it gets doubly hard. Many of our writers like to spend a good chunk of January at the screenings, which can make it hard to get them to write on the local art scene. […]
What would you do with $10K? Rent a studio for a year? Create a new body of work? Hire a photographer to document all your art? Launch a website? Travel to all those openings your work is featured in but you’re too art-poor to attend? Utah Arts & […]
If you went strolling in Salt Lake last night and instead of checking listings first decided to simply stop by a few of your favorite galleries you may have encountered a surprise or two. For instance, Patrick Moore Gallery in Sugar House was all shuttered up, and the […]
The cover of the January edition of ARTnews magazine features the detail of a painting by an artist who isn’t even mentioned within its pages. Barbara Pollack’s cover story on the new wave of interest in postwar Japanese art mentions plenty of Ushio Shinohara’s compatriots, artists like Jiro Yoshihara, […]
This Saturday, The Utah Opera is presenting Florencia en el Amazonas — their first ever opera sung in Spanish. Mexico’s Daniel Catán was first performed in 1996 as a commission for Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Seattle Opera and was the first Spanish-language opera to be commissioned by major United […]
