POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - In Six Years, now playing at Salt Lake Acting Company, Phil (Robert Scott Smith) has been gone fighting a war for a while. World War II, specifically. You know, the good one. He is obviously troubled when he finally returns home to his wife, Meredith (Alexandra Harbold). We revisit them over the coming decades—once every six years—and witness the far-reaching repercussions of his initi...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - nVISUAL ARTnBy Ehren ClarknEvery 71 seconds, an American develops Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists, teachers, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters—all are susceptible. Small in scale yet monumental in meaning is the dynamic exhibit THE LATER WORKS OF WILLIAM UTERMOHLEN, 1995-2000. It chronicles the final years of a great artist slowly suffocating from the degeneration of Alzheimer’s....

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - The story of artwork is the story of the eye and its various travels. A skilled artist will guide the optic sojourner in a deliberate arc, and the works of Sri Whipple also travel through psychological and fantastical realms. That in itself isn’t uncommon, but the way his shapes are perpetually in the process of evolving makes their narrative more compelling. Abstract shapes are becoming fig...

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - nI’ll be real clever, I thought. I’ll look back at the long history of cinematic spies and find a correlation between geopolitics and how seriously we want our spy flicks. Witness the present: With the United States seemingly hopelessly quagmired in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hollywood—in partnership with the Brits, pretty much our only friends left in the “coalition of the will...

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - nVISUAL ARTSnBy Brian StakernIn the age of digital imaging, trompe l’oeil (literally “trick of the eye”) in the art of painting is disappearing. After all, when you can create any effect in PhotoShop, why even bother picking up a brush? German-born artist DANIEL RAMJOUE still takes the time to make every brushstroke count towards the final effect. And the result, viewed across th...

POSTED // Nov 12,2008 - The mere idea of space—the deep, dark mystery of it all—can evoke a simple wonder. Looking up into the night sky is so instinctively wired into human beings that we just can’t help but be in complete awe as we ponder the universe. n“It really is that simple,” says Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington. “Space brings out the child in each one of us. Everyone ha...

POSTED // Nov 12,2008 - One of the big draws at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 was an exhibition of paintings of a canyon outside of Springdale, Utah, by artist Frederick S. Dellenbaugh. The pictures of the towering, beautifully colored canyons were so incredible, even unknown to those used to the landscapes of the eastern United States, some viewers began suggesting that the place didn’t really exist. Lu...

POSTED // Nov 12,2008 - nTHEATERnBy Scott RenshawnInspired stage farce can be among the most gaspingly hilarious of live theater experiences; insufferable stage farce turns the presumed hilarity of all the madcap, double-entendre-laden dashing about into something almost smug. Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF brilliantly accomplished the first—and skewered the latter—by making a stage farce about the producti...

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POSTED // Nov 5,2008 - What are your First Amendment rights? Are they exercised regularly, or are they lazy, flabby and neglected? The current Salt Lake Art Center exhibition Liberties Under Fire—in accordance with its mission to educate about “civil, social, and aesthetic issues affecting society”—pairs acclaimed artists with local writers in collaboration with the ACLU of Utah to examine our fi...