Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
John Bell has had a busy summer, from hosting a dinner party in the streets of L.A.’s Chinatown to a live performance painting during Denver’s First Friday art walk and full circle back to Salt Lake City (where, in between his artistic activities he was nice enough to design a new 15 Bytes logo […]
SLC Film Center changes its name, and screens The Gates at the Salt Lake Art Center.
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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.
Iain Pears’ series of Art History mysteries involving characters Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano is reviewed.
Yesterday’s post mentioned the Kimball Art Center’s desire to gain public input for their Transformation Project. In nearby Coalville the Summit County Public Art Advisory Board has decided to make public input the deciding factor in a new public art sculpture. They have placed eight sculptures around town […]
A lot of our Mixed Media articles from the past week concern the Park City Arts Festival, a project of the Kimball Art Center (see below). One of the Kimball’s projects that hasn’t yet hit the headlines is their new Transformation Project, a building project announced last week. […]
Here are a couple of interesting articles that appeared in the state’s major newspaper last week. In her July 24th article The Deseret News’ Carma Wadley tracks Utah’s public art history: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700165734/Public-art-State-funds-dedicated-to-create-works-for-all.html This month’s edition of 15 Bytes will feature an artist profile of Brian Swanson, a sculptor […]
While the debt ceiling debate dominated the political news, another piece of legislation, important to the arts community, came to a vote last week. The Walberg Amendment, which would have cut an additional $10.6 million from the NEA on top of the proposed $20 million cut in the […]
A valuable painting was stolen from artist Kamille Corry’s studio.
The Hidden Hollow concert tonight is a Where to Wear event. Here are some shots from last night’s event, The Decemberists at the Twilight Concert Series. Photos by Zoe Rodriguez.
The best thing to wear in the studio to get your creative mojo going, the 15 Bytes tees are also great to wear around town to announce your support for Utah’s vibrant visual arts community. The 2011 tee shirts feature the new 15 Bytes logo, designed by local […]
