POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - So, a Mormon sculptor who was once a Hare Krishna devotee and this Sicilian poet who used to be a computer geek go into a bar—make that an art gallery—and they decide to put on a show. The first guy thinks it’s about Kali, Hindu goddess...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Poets and painters have always hung out together, lived in the same neighborhoods, frequented the same cafes. Often, those same poets have acted as critics, interpreters of the art with which they were intimately familiar. Taking this idea as a starting...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There are moments that just turn your life around, and you don’t even know what hit you,” artist Carolyn Coalson observed about the fall from the steps of her Avenues home that left her painting arm permanently damaged. She somehow completed...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Ahh, the wild American West: trout-filled streams, howling wolves, decrepit ghost towns, jagged peaks scaled by adventurers and ... Robert Redford? You betcha. The Sundance Kid birthing the Sundance Catalog is the only link many people might make between...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Gallery director Ruth Lubbers knew it would happen. Opening night, some little kid ran right through Brian Snapp’s installation piece—concentric rings of rock salt and red clay with a glass of water sitting dead center, meticulously spread...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - DeWayne Sessions was way depressed. Before open-heart surgery in 1998, he learned he was in late-stage AIDS, with extensive liver and kidney damage. “I was brought to Utah from Arizona, to my sister’s house in Murray, to die and ... I just...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Each year, just after Thanksgiving, many of us turn into tourists in our own town. We check out the lights at the Gallivan Center, gawk at windows outside the ZCMI Center and stroll through the magic of Temple Square decked out with thousands of sparkling...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - While Ric Blackerby was in his basement studio creating giant bug sculptures for the children’s area of the new City Library, his wife was upstairs making a major life decision. After wheeling her chair through mud and slush to study for a teaching...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Christopher Terry, Provisional Altars. 3W Gallery, 159 W. 300 South, 983-9266, Nov. 19-Jan. 7; reception, Nov. 19, 6-9 p.m. You’ve got landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, even “Nightscapes” (see below) ... but tablescapes? USU art professor...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Scenesters and hipsters will be out in full force this week to celebrate the release of a coffee-table book sure to boost their street cred. Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion is the sequel to rock historian Paul Grushkin’s Art of Rock: Posters...