Artists Rally for Spiral Jetty in Utah
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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By Keri Holt, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--Wildlife artist Janetta Gee of Fort Walton Beach sees her work as more than portraits of wildlife.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 7--Hundreds of people are expected to attend Thursday's public hearing on a gated housing development overlooking Hayden Lake that could include a 36-slip community dock.
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Some resort developers have found a niche that has not been fully mined: luxe marinas with boat slips that can serve giant yachts.
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By Shelley Shelton, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  FOOTHILLS  Residents turn out to dress up and repair spot  To get a feeling for the spirit behind the ongoing transformation of a once-barren street island in the Oracle Foothills neighborhood, imagine a potluck gathering.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 15--State tourism officials will launch a $3.9 million advertising  campaign in early February to promote Utah as a spring and summer vacation  destination.   The bulk of the money -- almost $3 million -- will be spent on television  ads.
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PARK CITY, Utah -- Quickly, you realize that most everyone here for the Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped up yesterday, has a project.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Along with several large concerts in  the planning stages, artists around the world are putting on  their own benefit shows or donating to funds for the victims of  the recent tsunami in Southern Asia.
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By Glen Warchol, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 30--The growing demand for open space in Salt Lake's suburbs is  driving a bill through the Legislature that would give immunity from lawsuits  to cities and the owners of canals and ditches if a jogger or bicyclist is  injured.
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By Ray Grass Deseret Morning News  OGDEN BAY -- Flooding along the shores of the Great Salt Lake in the 1980s wiped the wetland canvas clean. Phragmites then appeared to help repaint the wetland picture in flowing acres of waving green stems and golden-brown plumes.
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By Stephanie Eddy, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 16--More than 100 people recently participated in Vineyard Boise's annual water baptism in the Boise River at Ann Morrison Park.
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By Katy Moeller, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec.
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In landscape drawing, lines are usually representations of the contours of the observed world. But a line that the artist Eve S. Mosher began drawing last month is striving for a different kind of effect.
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The Utah Office of Tourism recently released a series of new posters featuring the many scenic sights Utah has to offer. Nearly a decade has passed since new posters were released.
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BOROVSK, Russia -- Not much was happening in Borovsk, population 12,000, a place of cottages slouching on grassy slopes. Then, five years ago, amateur folk artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov was possessed by a vision that the town should become one giant artist canvas.
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A collective in San Francisco is pushing the limits on practicing and advocating the use of graywaterâ recycled dish and bathwater.
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Three watercolours by JMW Turner are to be exhibited together in an attempt to stop one leaving the country.