Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Unmonumental: the object in the 21st century reviewed by Geoff Wichert Unmonumental is simultaneously the name of a book, a pioneering exhibition at the New Museum’s new home in the Bowery for which it functions as catalog, and a school of sculpture that the book argues is the […]
In our September 2007 edition, we learned that (then mayoral candidate) Ralph Becker is a fan of Jim Jones and H.L.A. Culmer and that he believes “we need to be continually promoting the great Utah art we have;” now, thanks to the Utah Cultural Alliance’s May Culture Bytes, the […]
Dismantling Geneva Steel: Photographs by Chris Dunker Essays by Diana Turnbow and Sara J. Northerner Brigham Young University, Museum of Art reviewed by Laurel Hunter Geneva Steel, in Vineyard, Utah, opened in the 1940s to mill steel for use in WW2 war ships. It slowly declined after its […]
Mark England’s “Biography” video by Michael Stack Mark England was one of the first artist’s profiled in the pages of 15 Bytes. At the time, he was visited in his Alpine home, but he has since moved to Salt Lake and now maintains a home and studio in the […]
Artist Bepe Kafka was kind enough to send this our way: The Orphan Works Act of 2008 is now being considered in the U.S. Congress. "Orphan Works" are any copyrighted work whose author any infringer says he is unable to locate with what the infringer himself decides has […]
The Salt Lake Art Center announced this week that their search for a new executive director (see February edition) is at an end. Heather Ferrell, who has most recently served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas, has accepted the position and […]
With a gaping hole in its heart now, Sugar House is less of a draw these days than it was in the recent past when galleries, furniture & curio shops and plenty of caffeine distribution centers pulled in a variety of demographics. The demolition of the 21st South […]
At the Utah Cultural Alliance’s April Culture Bytes, a panel of fundraising experts from the community discussed Successful Silent Auctions and Planning Ettiquette. Local artist Steve Sheffield, who has served on the boards of Art Access and Community Nursing Services (Art & Soup) and helped with their fundraising […]
Videos of the destruction of the 337 Project building have popped up on the web on the past couple of weeks. Here’s a timelapse video of the destruction posted on YouTube by The Dada Factory. And here’s a link to a slower, close-up shot of the destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHoA4AdInbA […]
Our February edition of 15 Bytes featured an article on the Salt Lake Art Center’s search for a new director; a search that is moving forward with possible candidates for the position being identified by the Art Center. One such candidate is Heather Ferrell, current Executive Director and […]
Meyer Gallery announced last week that Tom Cushman has taken the position as the gallery’s new Director. Tom has a background in fine art sales in Park City, as well as an Olympic speed skating career as a coach and past Olympian. Past Director Maren Bargreen is leaving the […]
In our April 2008 edition of 15 Bytes we featured a remembrance of the late Bill Seifrit. Because a number of you have written us to thank us for the post and to share your own memories of Bill, we have decided to open this post as a […]
Modernism brought about a re-examination of all aspects of life, including music, architecture, literature and art. As a movement, it also gave birth to the flâneur, a term derived from the French verb “to stroll.” Coined by 19th-century poet and art critic, Charles Baudelaire, the flâneur was seen as […]
This Saturday, April 5, a ten-month wait is over. Eager viewers will watch as bulldozers level the graffiti-covered, installation-filled building on Salt Lake’s 400 East that became famous last year as the 337 Project. The brainchild of Adam and Dessi Price, the 337 Project turned a rundown building into […]
KUER has published an audio clip of a news story by Jennifer Napier-Pierce on the 337 Project, including interviews with artist Tessa Lindsay, Adam and Dessi Price and councilman Simon Sorensen. You can find the clip here. Our own story on the 337 Project can be found on […]
Utah’s Justin Taylor was recently recognized by the Portrait Society of America. His piece, “What to Make of It” (24 x 24 oil on canvas) was chosen, from among 1200 entrants, as 20 finalists for the Society’s conference in Philadelphia this April. Taylor, a native of Las Vegas, […]
We’re hard at work on the April edition of 15 Bytes, crossing our fingers that we’ll get back into our tradition of actually publishing it on the first Wednesday of the month (even if at 11:59 pm). We feel a responsibility to work hard on this project because […]
In the March edition of 15 Bytes, Sue Martin provided some tax tips for artists. One of her tips, involving artists donating their work to non-profits raised some questions among our readers. Because Sue wrote that artists should have the receiving organization give them a receipt for the value of their […]
The Art of Small Things by John Mack Reviewed by Laurel Hunter It is no small thing to read through this book. Every time I picked up The Art of Small Things, I became totally absorbed in the beautiful color photographs that illustrate the book – the objects […]
