Archive for the 'Fine Art' Category
Updates on Selective Echo posts: foie gras, Archuleta, and JP Jespersen
0 Comments Published by Professor Les May 15th, 2008 in Current Events, Salt Lake City, Fine Art, Photography, Pop Culture, Cuisine.Foie gras
Back in March, I criticized campaigns by so-called animal welfare activists to ban foie gras, the great goose and duck liver delicacy found in many fine restaurants and shops. Yesterday, the Chicago City Council, bolstered by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s comments that this was the silliest ordinance, repealed the ban on foie gras for […]
Junior’s Season - John-Paul Jespersen
0 Comments Published by Professor Les May 7th, 2008 in Fine Art, Photography.The photo by John-Paul Jespersen, taken May 6 at Junior’s Tavern in downtown Salt Lake City, brings to mind the following:
Spring Comes To Murray Hill
I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue
And say to myself You have a responsible job havenue?
Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel?
If you have a […]
Subtly and whimsically, Brother Timm tinges his relational art with a tribute to the Mannerists
0 Comments Published by Professor Les March 23rd, 2008 in Fine Art, Pop Culture.At first glance, one would understandably be perplexed by Timm Paxton’s affinity for Benvenuto Cellini, the 16th century Italian High Renaissance artist, sculptor, goldsmith, mercenary and writer. Paxton — or Brother Timm, his preferred nom de artiste — has, among other things, gained a good reputation for recycling Fisher-Price toys into customized small pull toys […]
Poor Yorick Studios slates two-day Open Studio March 28-29
1 Comment Published by Professor Les March 22nd, 2008 in Current Events, Fine Art.The 42 Salt Lake City artists who comprise the Poor Yorick Studios will hold their semi-annual, post-equinox Two Day Open Studio on Friday, March 28, from 6-10 p.m. and Saturday, March 29, from 1 to 5 p.m.
The studios are located at 126 W Crystal Ave (2590 S) in South Salt Lake. The event is free […]
Not bad for a horrible art student: Jacob Shirley successfully bends the rules and finds his genuine creative voice
3 Comments Published by Professor Les October 28th, 2007 in Fine Art.Just after arriving in New Zealand, Jacob Shirley landed a gig painting graffiti for a local theater company.
Humble as that may seem, it is just one tiny facet of an extensively rich portfolio for this Salt Lake City native who admits that he was a horrible art student but who nonetheless has conscientiously developed […]
Ruby Chacon’s ‘Masterpiece of Healing’ in downtown Salt Lake City
0 Comments Published by Professor Les October 11th, 2007 in Community Dialogue, Hispanic heritage, Current Events, Religion, Fine Art.Once again, local artist Ruby Chacon has graced the downtown landscape with a spectacular mural at the new Catholic Community Services of Utah building at 745 East 300 South.
The mural exemplifies the positive healing mission of the center that houses treatment services, men and women’s residential substance abuse programs, refugee resettlement and immigration, and administration […]
