{"id":27529,"date":"2015-01-13T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=27529"},"modified":"2023-11-25T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T21:39:17","slug":"whats-new-tony-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/whats-new-tony-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New: Tony Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27530\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith-1024x974.jpg\" alt=\"tonysmith\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith-1024x974.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith-900x856.jpg 900w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The irrepressible and exceedingly talented Tony Smith needs no introduction to most. A very popular U professor, he retired and wrote the delightful tome &#8220;Eff You: (or however we wrote that when we reviewed it so glowingly) Finally a Book About Me.&#8221; (Copies still available &#8212; try Phillips Gallery.) He tells us: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a great show all boxed up and ready to go. &#8216;The Big Tiny.&#8217; A drawing that took me almost a year of solid work to finish. The show, at the Downtown Library in January 2016 kind of treats the drawing like a sacred papyrus. Which it kind of is to me, and answers the four main questions people always ask. . . .How did you do it? How much is it worth? What does it mean? and, Is it art?<\/p>\n<p>With that done I have successfully torn all meaning out of my life, and am in the studio trying to figure out what I can come up with to get me through this goddamn winter&#8230;Oh I know.<\/p>\n<p>Attachment is an early stage of The Big Tiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irrepressible and exceedingly talented Tony Smith needs no introduction to most. A very popular U professor, he retired and wrote the delightful tome &#8220;Eff You: (or however we wrote that when we reviewed it so glowingly) Finally a Book About Me.&#8221; (Copies still available &#8212; try Phillips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":27530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,14,2204],"tags":[2616,752],"class_list":["post-27529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-visual_arts","category-whats-new","tag-frank-anthony-smith","tag-tony-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tonysmith.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 07:51:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27531,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions\/27531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}