Active Light: Photographic Experiments in Lighting and Chemistry at the Woodbury Museum of Art
Photography liberated painting says the traditional narrative of art history. Freed by the advent of photography from the burden of faithful reproduction, artists of the nineteenth century began experimenting with their mediums, stretching their descriptive possibilities while exploring new manners of seeing and understanding the world. Something similar […]
Studio Space: Randall Lake
Randall Lake’s first studio in Paris on the Rue de Grenelle was near the Eiffel Tower. He describes it as the size of a maid’s room, with no natural light, in a seven-story walk-up building. When Lake came to Utah in 1973 to study with Alvin Gittins […]
Missa Brevis: Nexus of Faith, Art and War at RDT and UMOCA
RDT, in partnership with (UMOCA) considers José Limón’s “Missa Brevis,” a dance for 22 that will appear in both Salt Lake at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and later this winter at Brigham Young University, by hosting a symposium on the nexus of faith, art and war.
Long Solo Backpack: Memoirist and Naturalist Julia Corbett
Julia Corbett knows something about homesteading, having done so herself in the wilds of Wyoming. Her memoir Seven Summers (University of Utah Press) chronicles not only how to pick a chain saw to clear your ten acres of forested land, but how a Paiute looks at an aging […]
It’s Always Something Big: Ririe-Woodbury Opens its 50th Season
This weekend, Ririe Woodbury opened their 50th season with “The Start of Something Big” at the Rose Wagner. The concert celebrates the work of company founders Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury while welcoming the work of Daniel Charon (see our article in the September edition), the company’s new […]
15 Bytes in Centennial Valley
An early season dusting of snow made the beginning of the annual Centennial Valley Celebration of the Arts cooler than usual, but provided the visiting artists spectacular light and a chance to use more blues and whites from their palettes. A 15 Bytes co-sponsored event, the Celebration of […]
Pick Up Some Art (and one of our Tees) at Poor Yorick
The Poor Yorick Fall Open Studio returns this weekend with a chance for fun, great art and even our 15 Bytes tee shirts. The event has moved from Friday to Saturday, and Poor Yorick has added a couple extra hours (4-6 pm) before the big party for those […]
Marwan Nahle at Phillips Gallery
There are limits to the extent that the artist can let us see through his eyes, in a literal sense, but speaking metaphorically, every artist has the potential to share their universe of artistic vision, wonders of meaningful emotion, and universal contribution to cognition. This is the goal […]
Versions of Motion: Shigeyuki Kihara at UMFA’s salt 8
In 1968, the Scottish-Canadian experimental filmmaker Norman McLaren found a new use for an optical printer, a device that copies motion picture films. Any moving image will consist of a sequence of still images, each briefly flashed before the eye while the mind builds a version of the […]
Sena Jeter Naslund: From Ahab’s Wife to the French Revolution
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the UMFA Book Club, in partnership with the Utah Humanities Council, will host New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund at 7 pm on Thursday, September 26, as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. The event is free and […]
Changes with September Gallery Stroll: Williams Fine Art, Illume Gallery, Utah Artist Hands & More
The Salt Lake City visual art season begins tonight with the September Gallery Stroll. There’s been a few changes recently, so here are some notes to help orient you. There’s the galleries that have closed up over the summer — don’t plan on going to Nox Contemporary, Kayo […]
Traci O’Very Covey Mural at Millcreek Community Center
This month we’ve taken you to South Salt Lake, for a look at their public art (see the photo essay in the September 2013 edition of 15 Bytes), talk of the city’s future as an art locale (see our September 10th post), and, coming up, the Poor Yorick […]
Utah Chamber Artists’ Voices
by Jannifer Hemingway Wood The Cathedral of the Madeleine opened its doors Monday evening to members in the community to come and enjoy not only the inspiring beauty of its structure, but as well, the stunning and moving talent of the Utah Chamber Artists and other musical guests […]
What’s A Guerl To Do? Guerrilla Girls at the UMFA
by Jann Haworth We sat in the front row Rach, Sarah and me…like groupies at a POP concert. We were early and I expected such established celebrities to be late. Twisting round to check if the auditorium was full about five min. before the scheduled start time — […]
Buster Simpson’s Presence : 475 S. 300 East
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Friends of Utah Western Art in Torrey This Weekend
Sure, the weather we’re having, with its frequent shifts in temperature and sudden downpours, can be a bit tricky, but man does it provide some great visuals — the changing shadows, the saturation of local color, the dramatic clouds draping and transforming our cliffs and mountains. This is […]
HB Boys Mural : 2280 S. Main Street
Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map
Time to Move the Music Indoors
As summer begins to simmer, so does outdoor concert season. We’ve had our fun in the sun, but performers are moving back indoors as are audiences. The temps may be cooling down, but the regular concert season is just warming up. Here are some big concerts sneaking up […]
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