Art
In Salt Lake City, Air Is a Concern and an Artistic Medium
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents artworks that make visible the quality and inequality of what we breathe.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Opinion
Black Art in Utah Highlights Systemic Racism in the Beehive State
"Black Refractions," a touring exhibition now at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, throws into vivid relief the state’s shameful record on race.
Film
A Rediscovered Nancy Holt Documentary From 1970
The short documentary Utah Sequences, previously thought to be lost, purely displays Nancy Holt’s vision of time and place.
Art
A Pastel Portrait of Spiral Jetty and Its Environs
In describing the surrounding landscape of Spiral Jetty in a 1972 essay, Robert Smithson gives us ample descriptions of color, from the “deposits of black basalt” to “shallow pinkish water” to his sublime view of “a flaming chromosphere.” It’s particularly fitting, then, that for a new site-specific commission for