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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.
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Jaclyn Wright’s Blaze Orange Uses Photography to Question the “American West”
An active shooting range prompts artwork about the environment.
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Alex Caldiero, Outsider and Naysayer
Caldiero’s language experiments are rooted in the land and anchored in his body, at the junction between his brain and his larynx.
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Ancient Indigenous Petroglyphs Defaced With Racist Message
The Bureau of Land Management said the defaced boulder would “never be the same.”
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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.
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Effacing Indigenous History One Obelisk at a Time
The gawking fascination with the Utah obelisk taps into larger, fundamental behavioral problems that are holdovers from colonizing the frontier.
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The Chilling, Little Known History of Nuclear Experiments in the US Southwest
In From Dust Cara Despain lays bare that dark chapter of US history when the government tested nuclear weapons on its own soil.