In myriad ways, coming as it does in January, Sundance sets the stage for US cinema through the rest of the year.
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The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
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Wildfire Ash as a Medium
Meet the artists who use ash and residue from natural disasters to send an urgent message about the environmental calamity unfolding before us.
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Eight Utah Art Spaces You Probably Didn’t Know About
Your list of dreamy, imaginative, and oh-so-unexpected Utah art venues, including an eyeglass store and an eclectic bazaar, all teeming with love for local artists.
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Mary Toscano Draws a Sense of Foreboding and Loneliness
The artist’s exhibition In Solution is a fitting farewell for Salt Lake City’s Alice Gallery.
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The Andy Warhol Lecture That Never Happened
It’s been 55 years since Warhol hired a lookalike to prank students at the University of Utah. What lessons on celebrity and capitalist consumption did his hoax reveal?
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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.
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The Environmental Crisis Comes Home
Ideal Home captures the disorientation of a moment in which environmental crises have pierced the domestic sphere.
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Energy Interests in Utah Threaten “World’s Longest Art Gallery”
Since the discovery of natural gas reserves near Nine Mile Canyon two decades ago, conservationists have found themselves at odds with regional energy companies.
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Two Artists Address the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin join forces to bring awareness to the plight of Indigenous women and girls, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
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Tucked Deep in Rural Utah, an Arts Center Reaches Out to the World
Granary Arts brings contemporary art, international discourse, and a different lens into a traditional landscape.
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Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.