NewCityMovement

A Lot of Dirt and Sand

Stephanie Leitch, who you may remember from her dripping honey installation at TRASA gallery last year has a new work opening as part of a show called “Desert” at Westminster College this Friday. "Desert" is a year-long endeavor to heighten campus and public awareness of our endangered environment through dance, music, visual art and spoken word. Using the Bonneville Lake bed as her point of reference, Leitch will have a large-scale, multi-media installation taking up a large portions of the conservatory's lobby, using a lot of dirt and sand. Could be interesting.

Tickets are available by phone at (801) 450-8977 or at the door - $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors (Westminster Students $5 with ID).

Westminster College
Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT

May 16 and 17, 2008
7: 30 p.m. - General opening
** Friday night only** 6 p.m. - Visual arts exhibition opens for Gallery Stroll

Opening May 7, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' new exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," explores how designers have mined comic books and mythology for inspiration. (Elva Ramirez, WSJ - Thanks )

Signed & NumNum

Signed & Numbered is a new shop being opened by art princess Leia Bell below Slowtrain Records (221 E Broadway, SLC, UT) this Spring. The shop will feature concert posters, prints and other limited edition collectibles by contemporary artists - both world renowned and undiscovered. For more info email: goprintgo@yahoo.com

See Music

Michal Levy is one to watch. See the animated short film (2:15 minutes) he created to accompany John Coltrane's "Giant Steps". His other design and artwork is great too... very NewCityMovement don't you think?

Too Cute

Friends With You created a new line of toys called Wish Come True. Available now but already sold out. More at FWY, Fickr, StrangeCo.

Weeeekend

Get 'a day in the life' view with this earth rotation time lapse tool at TheirCircularLife.it, then enjoy pretending you're Jackson Pollack. [Thanks Dee!]

Leslie Hall on NPR's Day To Day... Today:

It all began with a single bejeweled garment hidden in a thrift store. Suddenly Leslie Hall had hundreds of sparkly sweaters and thousands of fans...Hip-hop sensation Leslie Hall straddles the line between hot and utterly dorky. The size 16 singer piles her dishwater blond hair high in a bouffant and sports huge, thick glasses along the lines of the teacher in junior high whom everyone made fun of.

Let Him Cast The First Stone

Get a pre-view of local artist Rockford Orvin's new works entitled "... let him cast the first stone." during this Friday's Gallery Stroll at Highlife Salon. In this new show Rockford explores the theme of judgment by portraying his emotional connection to judgment through his relationships with a variety of characters vs. himself. His emotionally honest, colorful and often times larger than life works come from a vibrant gay perspective rarely seen in Utah.

HIGHLIFE
245 East Broadway (300 South), SLC, UT 84111 US
Friday, March 21, 6:00PM
801.349.2859

Spiral Jetty Threatened by Energy Development

An urgent email to Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes from the Director of Friends of the Great Salt Lake, tells of plans for drilling oil in the Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty. This action would require some kind of industrial complex of pipes and pumps beneath the water and on the shore and would require roads for oil tank trucks, cranes, pumps etc. which produce noise and will severely alter the natural environment.

If you want to send a letter of protest to save the beautiful, natural Utah environment around the Spiral Jetty from oil drilling, the emails or calls of protest go to Jonathan Jemming 801-537-9023 jjemming@utah.gov. Please refer to Application # 8853. Every letter makes a big difference.

UPDATE: The comment period about the Spiral Jetty-impacting energy development has been extended to Feb. 13. For more information from the state of Utah, click here. For more information on how to comment, click here.

The Seattle P-I's Regina Hackett says that the state of Utah has already received 1,000 comments, and that those comments have begun to alert them to the importance of the Jetty. "I think they were impressed to be taking calls from Europe and Japan about an artwork in Utah," the acting director of the Salt Lake City Art Center, Leslie Peterson, told Hackett. [Via: Modern Art Notes]

Leia Bell Gallery Show Feb 2nd at Lucky Pirate

Wonderglass

From our Germany desk comes a link to the beautiful glass works of Anna Torfs.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

If you've never seen the classic movie Blade Runner or haven't in a while, definitely see Ridley Scott's new Final Cut remaster/re-edit. He took out the narration the studio imposed on him and added some new scenes along with tightening it up in general. It set the standard for the look of all science fiction that followed it and was more stylistically and visually creative than most of the digital effects based films we see today.

Flower Bomb

Photographs of exploding frozen bouquets by Ori Gersht. [Via Core77]

New Work By Ruhlman

Local artist David Ruhlman has recently updated his site with new work including the "Anagram" series (left) and "Caught Between Hungry Loaves of Bread [Part 2]" (right). Also, here's a recent interview.

One Kingdom To Rule My Wall

My fabulous new limited edition print "Un Royaume' (One Kingdom) by artist Steven Harrington came in the mail today! (Click above to enlarge) All his prints seems to sell out very quickly at his store, so I'm thrilled to have a piece of my own. The color and quality is unbelievable in person, plus I love his illustration style so much I can hardly stand it. Shown below, "Peacock." See more in the gallery section at his website.