art Archive

  • Grondahl 15, Conference

    Posted on April 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.  Sorry about the quality of this image. My copy of this book is pretty yellowed and brittle.

    Full Story

  • 12 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Moral Imagination (Guest)

    Posted on September 24, 2011 | 8 Comments
    [Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater, still  has the floor.] In an earlier Cheap Seats post, Brent asked “Why do we spend so much time telling each other what spiritual experiences mean?” I think  it’s an important question and it’s one I    keep coming back to. […]

    Full Story

  • The Wish Tree

    Posted on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
    I had my five year old daughter with me and I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't get her very interested in the bronzes. Then we turned the corner and beheld the Wish Tree.

    Full Story

  • Window to Utopia

    Posted on August 11, 2011 | 6 Comments
    What would heaven be like, for a teenager?

    Full Story

  • Battles – ‘Gloss Drop’ Tour, London

    Posted on June 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
    From the packed-in floor of a dark club (under Victorian railway tracks), and through the dancing columns of sound and light, the three members of Battles appear as conjurors, athletes, inventors, and heroes. Playing mostly material from their brand-new album (released this week) ‘Gloss Drop‘, […]

    Full Story

  • Just Too Good to be True

    Posted on April 12, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Context can be everything in art. Hearing those songs again, in a fresh context, I was actually listening to them for the first time.

    Full Story

  • Angela Ellsworth Explores Her Mormon Past at ASU Art Museum

    Posted on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
    MAN, I wish geography weren’t part of reality because I really want to go see this  performance  by Angela Ellsworth, a woman who was raised Mormon but is no longer practicing.   She is the great-great-granddaughter of Lorenzo Snow, the fifth president of the Church […]

    Full Story

  • Picasso - Three Women

    Bake-ru

    Posted on January 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
    'Bake' isn't just about changing, its about the charm that transforms everyday innocuous items into unrecognizable, uncooperative objects through unknown mischief. When we find ourselves stupefied by keys that should work, or items that have inexplicably disappeared, it has 'bake-ru.'

    Full Story

  • Hunting Arkansas

    Posted on January 10, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Sunny Bottoms took these beautiful images while hunting at her family farm in Arkansas. The muted tones and use of the analogue frame create a fitting reflection of memory: a dreamlike glimpse into a world of sunset.

    Full Story

  • Through a Glass, Textured Seasons

    Posted on October 22, 2010 | 6 Comments
    Jeremi Broadhurst captured these beautiful glimpses of nature, in her distinctive style.

    Full Story