Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist
A review of Donna Poulton’s biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
A Farewell to Lila Abersold
You work somewhere long enough and it starts to seem like home; leaving your desk, your files, and your coworkers feels a little like leaving your bed, your books and your family. After almost 22 years with Utah’s visual arts program, Lila Abersold has decided it’s time to […]
La Monte Young, A.D. Shaw & Aaron Fritz: Mixed Media This Week
On yesterday’s Radio West, Doug Fabrizio interviewed musicologist Jeremy Grimshaw, author of a new book on LaMonte Young, a local boy who became pioneer in the Minimalist music movement, influencing scores of artists and musicians while remaining relatively unkown to the general public. You can listen to the […]
Cultural Core, Museum Identity, Website Workshop: Mixed Media
Website Workshop, Defining the Leonardo, and working on Salt Lake’s cultural core.
FINALLY . . . a book about Tony Smith
Ann Poore reviews Tony Smiths book about . . . Tony Smith.
PechaKucha Night – Salt Lake City
PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide.
The Future of (Art) Journalism
If you’ve been listening to KUER’s Radio West this week you know they’ve been talking about the future of journalism. Yesterday, they talked with Politico about their successful business model – super saturation of a niche market. That’s our goal here at 15 Bytes. We’ve survived for 10 […]
Mixed Media: New Public Art, Sources of Art & Grant Speed
Heading to downtown Salt Lake for Friday’s Gallery Stroll, we snapped this shot of Uof U Architecture graduate Daniel Lyman installing Sway’d (look close, he’s there), his temporary installation that will occupy the space next to the Capitol Theatre until Ballet West’s new dance center is built. Lyman’s […]
Firms to Compete for Kimball Art Center Transformation Project
The Kimball Art Center has announced that its Board of Directors and Building Committee will host a “Meet Your Designer Night” with the Top Five architects (out of 18 invited firms) chosen to compete for the Kimball Art Center Transformation Project. At the historic Egyptian Theater the invited […]
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
The latest installment in our review of novels set in the art world, Shawn Rossiter reviews a novel by Argentine author Cesar Aira.
Beth Krensky, Kristina Lenzi, Holly Gornik and other Mixed Media
It struck us as odd the first time we saw 15 Bytes used as a reference source (in a Master’s Thesis we came across in the mid naughts); but it really shouldn’t have, since we’ve become the main source for information on Utah art. Now we see references […]
Fashion Stroll and Sugarhouse Stroll
Tonight in Park City the Park City Gallery Association hosts Fashion Stroll, an evening devoted to merging fine art and fashion. Organized by Farasha Boutique, participating galleries will host up-and-coming designers from 6 to 9 pm. The event, featuring drinks and light bites, is free. There’s an after-party […]
Revolutionaries Symposium & Mixed Media
The Revolutionaries:Vanguards of the 1960’s, RDT’s symposium on artistic developments in the 60s, is tonight, September 28, at 7:00 pm in the Rose Wagner’s Black Box Theatre. Join scholars in discussing the revolutionary concepts and controversial art movements that expanded the frontiers of awareness, challenged the status quo, […]
Alas, Poor Everett
Two events this weekend, Poor Yorick Studios & Spectrum Studios Fall Equinox Open Studios and controversy at the Escalante Arts Festival.
Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel
We return to our series of reviews of novels set in the art world with Shawn Rossiter’s review of Ernesto Sabato’s existential classic The Tunnel.
New Urban Gallery at Neighborhood House
The new Urban Gallery at Neighborhood House goes up this weekend, Friday September 23, and Saturday, September 24. Since 2008 the 337 Project has been transforming the garage doors at Salt Lake’s Neighborhood House into an Urban Gallery, featuring work by Utah’s street and fine artists. In previous […]
Amy Caron’s Waves of Mu Returns
Amy Caron brings her Waves of Mu performance/installation back to Salt Lake City.
Copper Palate Press Screen Printing
We want to thank everyone who was out Friday night helping us celebrate 15 Bytes’ 10-year anniversary by wearing their tees; and for our in-kind sponsors who allowed us to give out some great gifts to those we spotted in tees. The tee shirts, and new 15 Bytes […]
Gallery Stroll Tonight: Timbre, Phase 2 and 15 Bytes Tees
There’s a lot happening tonight in Salt Lake’s art world. You’ve already read about some of it in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, and you can see a full list of exhibitions. There are a couple of exhibits you have to see tonight if you want to […]
