Granite Furniture Tear-Down
The Granite Furniture building in Sugarhouse, empty for half a decade, is finally being transformed. We’re not sure what to make of the architectural renderings for what the new owners, Boulder Ventures, plan on doing with the space (“uninspired” comes to mind, but the image is small so we’ll have to withhold judgment for now),...
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35 x 35 at Finch Lane in March 2013
We’ve just received word from the Salt Lake Arts Council that Artists of Utah’s third 35 x 35 exhibit will open at Salt Lake’s Finch Lane Gallery in March of 2013. 35 x 35 is our showcase of art by Utah’s young generation. The exhibit features work by artists 35 or younger, and in 2009...
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Frances Darger to retire
If you attend the Utah Symphony Saturday night for the final symphony in Thierry Fischer’s season-long Beethoven Cycle (since Fischer is performing them backwards it’s actually Beethoven’s first symphony), you’ll also catch the final performance of violinist Frances Darger. Now 87, Darger has been with the orchestra for the past seventy years, and will hang...
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Atemporal Radio Tour hits Nox Contemporary
John Cage once said, “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” Fascination with noise is at the heart of Flinching Eye Collective, a Denver-based performance group that embraces, attacks and transforms sound as an artistic medium. And...
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What’s Going on at the Stroll
For the May Gallery Stroll tonight there’s so much going on you’ll have to make some difficult choices. Here’s a bit of where our crew is heading tonight. Fresh back from some international travels, Geoff Wichert headed over to Mestizo Arts this week to see the new show featuring work by Michael Pribich and Esperanza...
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Twelve Minutes Max Premieres Sunday
New performance venues in Salt Lake, including the Dunce School for the Arts' 12 Minutes Max series, premiering Sunday, May 20.
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UTA Bus Shelter Murals & Other Mixed Media
As the Standard Examiner reports, an exhibit currently in Washington Terrace (Weber County) features murals that have already or will soon be installed in UTA bus shelters. The works are by locals, from well-known artists like Earl Jones, whose work is scheduled to be installed in Kaysville, to artists still in High School, or even...
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Salvador Dali’s Line: Yes
We’re not generally the type of blog to share YouTube videos – piano-playing cats and the like. But in recognition of his birthday today, we thought you might like this appearance by Salvador Dali on the 1950s television show “What’s My Line?” Watch as, in a foreshadowing of the genre-crossing nature of the contemporary artist,...
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Sugarhouse Art Walk
If you’ve read this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, you know Local Colors of Utah is now in Sugarhouse. A detail you might have missed in the article is that Sugarhouse now has its own Art Walk, a welcome event since there are far too many art openings in the capital city to see them...
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Art Pillars
Ruth Lubbers, Nancy Boskoff and Stephanie Harpst to speak at Culture Bytes and Dr. Vern G. Swanson to retire from the Springville Museum of Art.
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Lance Larsen New Poet Laureate & Other Mixed Media
Last week Governor Gary Herbert named BYU professor Lance Larsen the state’s new poet laureate. As the Daily Herald reports, during his five-year term the Springville resident will travel the state “promoting what he calls a lost art form” (read the article here). Larsen, and his artist wife Jacqui Biggs Larsen, have appeared frequently in...
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Reuben Nakian’s “Juno”
In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes we featured an interview between curator Frank McEntire and sculptor Neil Hadlock, whose work is being featured at Nox Contemporary this month. As discussed in the article, Hadlock’s abstract forms have become familiar parts of Utah’s outdoor artistic landscape. When Hadlock was a professor of art at Brigham...
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