POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - Trent Call is at it again, with the usual fun components: brights, patterns, explosions and nice juicy lines.

POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - In these lean times, everyone is tightening the belt. With budget cuts and funding deficits encroaching from all sides, the nonprofit sector faces sizeable hurdles. When businesses are scrambling to survive, and disposable income contracts, it seems that the artsand their corresponding nonprofit organizationsare hit hard.

POSTED // Mar 4,2009 - Like many other wonderful tactile things, Polaroid film—which ironically quenches the same urge for instant results as digital cameras—is on the endangered species list.

POSTED // Dec 17,2008 - The digital age has several implications for photography: more technical manipulative control, instant results and the elimination of darkroom developing. These developments have simultaneously decreased demand for—and pushed the envelope of—fine-art photography. The Holga Show 2008 at Saans Gallery takes photo art back a couple decades to the age of toy cameras—which, in the mid...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - The thing about experiencing art via digital media—digitized images, the Web—is that it is a viewing experience once removed. “It’s silly for visual art you’re supposed to see in person,” says Jason Metcalf, co-director of the Sego Art Center in downtown Provo. nThe current international juried show Visual Identities/Real Space is co-sponsored by ArtBistro.com&m...

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...

POSTED // Jul 30,2008 - Salt Lake City is a growing midsize city and along with that growth comes new exposure, expansion and strengthening of existing communities and districts, and—most exciting of all—change. Currently, Salt Lake City is undergoing significant...

POSTED // Jun 11,2008 - Isn’t it fun havin’ stuff other people can’t have … or at least only a select few? It makes gifts, records, cars and art one-of-a-kinds or limited editions special, and more coveted. Same goes for independent local businesses—you...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - “I’m not going to talk about art, because I don’t know what that is,” said the man whose work is among the most noteworthy modern art of the 20th century. What an opening statement for an artist of his stature to deliver. On March...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - Any string, particle, mark or individual viewed in isolation appears very different from the large form of which it is a component. Lines coalesce to make a drawing; people make a group. Jennifer Suflita’s exhibition of etchings and drypoint prints...