Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
“One man’s loss is another man’s gain,” is the proverb we overheard someone cite at Gallery Stroll tonight. They were referring to changes at the LDS Church History Museum and the Springville Museum of Art. Dr. Rita Wright of Salt Lake is leaving the LDS Church History Museum […]
This week’s Gallery Stroll features plenty of great shows, including an exhibit of new paintings by Judith Romney Wolbach at Charley Hafen Gallery. Wolbach is the subject this week of an Artist Profile at Catalyst. You can read the article here. For a 15 Bytes article on the […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has announced the appointment of Whitney Tassie as the organization’s new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. In her curatorial capacity, Tassie will organize exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, including the continuation of the UMFA’s salt series of projects […]
A painting isn’t hard to walk off with: a century ago, a low-rung employee and Italian patriot famously walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa beneath his coat. Walking away with a sculpture is another matter, but that’s what happened this weekend at the Park City […]
by Geoff Wichert From the Renaissance on, the theme of history has been expansion: the Age of Exploration carrying adventurers and map-makers to every corner of the globe; the Reformation replacing a monolithic church with religious diversity; philosophy yielding to ideology; capitalism finding the price of everything while […]
The CUAC is evicted and Green River’s Epicenter hosts Richard Saxton’s multi-media project The Majestics.
The big local art news last week (while we were on vacation) was the announcement that the Central Utah Art Center is being evicted from its Ephraim home in August. As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune and the City Weekly, for the past six years the CUAC […]
Images of Christ are abundant in residences worldwide, with various styles and portraits to choose from. But how much do we really think about the inspiration for such images? Because Christian imagery has become standard, viewers seldom think of the contemporary ‘industry’ of religious art. In the documentary […]
Would you be surprised to learn that Salt Lake City is one of the “most well-read” cities in the country? And not just, like, 19th on a list of twenty, but actually in tenth place, beating out cities like Seattle and Atlanta. That was the news that came […]
Eight years ago local sculptor and glass artist Dan Cummings wanted to find a venue to show off Utah’s 3-D talents. He found a partner in West Vally City’s Utah Cultural Celebration Center and the Face of Utah Sculpture exhibit was born. Tonight is the opening iteration of […]
You gotta love summer evenings outside: warm temps, fresh air, listening to music while lying on a blanket with a drink in hand instead of trapped in an uncomfortable seat. And for some reason you can talk to the person next to you without suffering a disapproving glare […]
“For us, fifty-one is bigger than fifty,” said Brian Vaughan last night as he and co-Artistic Director David Ivers raised the curtain on the 51st annual Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Featuring six plays (for the summer, with an additional two to follow in the fall), […]
by Geoff Wichert I’m suspicious of anything calling itself an art festival. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s Pasadena’s world-renowned Pageant of the Masters, with dressed-up volunteers posed in three-dimensional tableaus based on famous paintings, or the local fair, anywhere, at which children get their faces painted while […]
Gerald Elias, winner of last year’s Utah Book Award for his musical mystery novel Danse Macabre, is back with the fourth novel in his series featuring amateur sleuth and cantankerous violin teacher, Danile Jacobs. Death and Transfiguration was released by Minotaur Books last week and the local launch […]
Has your spouse or significant other been bothering you to get rid of some of those books spilling off your shelves onto the floor? What about those tubes of paint and brushes you never use? OR Do you love going to the art section at your local book […]
The big event this weekend is the Utah Arts Festival, which opened yesterday with a New Orleans style funeral march (both the down beat and the up beat halves), the beginning of a sculpture made out of 20 tons of sand, and the sounds of James McMurtry. Today […]
We didn’t make it there ourselves but the word on the streets is that on Friday night the UMOCA was hopping. There might be a 15 Bytes bump (see our article on curator Aaron Moulton); but the crowds could have also had something to do with all that […]
Susan Narduli’s “Land and Time,” a multi-media installation at the Natural History Museum of Utah, was selected by The Americans for the Arts Public Art Network’s Year in Review as one of the top 50 public artworks in the United States for 2011. Narduli’s work begins outside with […]
The Leonardo’s current exhibition Fantastic Fabrications takes you through a faux history of the early 20th Century, using artifacts, images, and tools from an imagined past. It features Boilerplate and Frank Reade, the creations of husband-wife team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. The two artists are currently at […]
