We’re all about bright ideas. Like that first bright idea, almost 25 YEARS AGO: create an online platform to unite and strengthen Utah’s art community. And the even brighter one: in the face of dwindling coverage in traditional media, create an online magazine about the arts in […]
The holiday season is among us, which means your favorite artists and arts organizations are working overtime to reach their goals before the end of the year. The arts are vitally important in Utah (and everywhere, but since we are here, let us focus on Utah). The Kem […]
“There is a sign in my grandfathers’ workshop that says this: 180 degrees is half a circle, but also a line.” Readers of Lindsey Drager’s new novel, The Avian Hourglass, spend more than a few pages in the front yard of that workshop, and glimpse its contents, workbenches […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes outstanding literary achievement by Utah writers or works with significant connections to the state published in the previous year. […]
Brigham City native and Cache Valley enthusiast Ned Young is an artist surrounded by superlatives, the way redwinged blackbirds circle around one of his sublime barns. Although his realism surpasses photography and his disappearing brushwork ranks with that of Vermeer, what may be mentioned first and most often […]
At the entrance to Ogden Contemporary Arts, a large video screen scrolls through 30 candid photos of New Mexico’s Suzanne Sbarge, OCA’s current visiting artist, along with staff assistants, students and visitors to the program. They all appear happy to be there, which is not surprising once viewers […]
With a name like Alma, you knew he had to be Mormon. Not necessarily a Utahn, not necessarily LDS, but definitely Mormon. Anyone who grew up around the culture knows the name is a giveaway—for a man, at least. Alma is the name of two major prophets, father […]
“It just wasn’t a good fit anymore,” says Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, who after a decade and a half as a professor at the University of Utah has resigned her position—to open a bookstore.
On a quiet stretch of Salt Lake City’s historic Film Row, inside a former film-reel vault that once housed Cosmic Aeroplane, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis is hoping to build a new kind of creative space—Books & Supply, an art and design bookstore that doubles as a studio, gallery, classroom, and community hub.
The era of mass incarceration went vogue in the 1970s, when the perceived uptick in crime had the American public and politicians shaking in their britches. Racially-coded theories like the broken windows theory and mandatory minimums disproportionately caught Black people and other people of color in the carceral […]
Sitting down at a homey café at 9th and 9th, my date and I did what any pair on a low-stakes Thursday night outing might do: we tucked ourselves into a small table, exchanged a grin over flickering candlelight, and started scanning the menu. Should we split something? […]
At the height of its awareness by the public, studio glass was often cited as the most financially rewarding medium of art. A single blown-glass master and his dealer staged several successful million-dollar exhibitions in Seattle. Tacoma’s Dale Chihuly, known to Utahns as the artistic star of the […]
Sugar House has the name, but it’s West Jordan where they actually grew the sugar beets. In the early days of the Salt Lake Valley, sugar was an expensive import and the pioneers sought a local solution. Under the direction of Brigham Young, the area now known as […]
From more than 30 years of launching exhibitions, Kevin O’Keefe has learned one thing above all: face-to-face connections matter. “It became clear that getting in front of the right person shortens the time to a decision and dramatically increases business,” he says.
11/18 THE UTAH REVIEW: Intelligent, subdued spiritual feel in The Blue of Distance, show of Madeline Rupard, Drew Rane at Material art gallery For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote […]
Holly Rios began her training at Western Colorado University, studying printmaking and English, until—as she puts it—she “did the art-school thing and dropped out to learn about real life.” The time away didn’t pull her from art so much as widen the lens: work, people, desire, power, and […]
Glass is one of the more remarkable materials found in nature. Spewed from a volcano, molten glass can cool quickly in the air before landing as obsidian, which when broken produces sharp edges that make perfect tools for cultures that lack metals. Dissolved in water, it precipitates out […]
We snapped these images before the last leaves came down. Titled “Victoriam,” this 70-foot mural by Salt Lake City artist Chuck Berrett spans nearly 2,000 square feet, transforming the façade of a former 1968 medical office building into a sweeping field of botanical movement and layered color. The […]
Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.
The 2025 Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah at Springville Museum of Art takes place in a nation and at a time when both those parts of the spectrum of reverence are under attack. So long as a dominant minority of our citizens is determined to ignore both […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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