Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

“In Memory” at UMOCA Challenges our Understanding of Time and Art

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s many virtues—currently under threat from short-sighted development—include its multi-level architecture, incorporating a vast space that still allows for intimate encounters. Right now, one grand wall of the main gallery is devoted to the unmatched video genius of William Kentridge, a South African […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Fazilat Soukhakian’s Under the Same Sky Explores Memory and Identity Through Objects and Absence

Considering Logan artist Fazilat Soukhakian began her career as a photojournalist in her native Iran, it is unsurprising that we best know her artistic portfolio for works that center the human form, largely in a documentary style. You may have seen the Utah State University professor’s portraits of […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Margaret Curtis’ ‘This, too’ Burns with the Urgency of Environmental and Social Crises

“I think that if a song isn’t about something, it ought to be an instrumental.” With that advice, spoken often in concert, the great American jazz poet and performer Gil Scott-Heron, author of “Winter in America,” “Johannesburg,” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” never failed to bring […]

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