Zach Abend
Zach Abend is a Utah-based freelance journalist whose work focuses on the American Southwest, public memory, religion, culture, and overlooked regional histories. His reporting and features have appeared in Salt Lake City Weekly, Religion Unplugged, and other publications.
When FIFA painted over one of Wyland’s whale murals in Dallas after it had been there for nearly 30 years, the artist sued. He cited the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act, which gives artists certain “moral rights” even after they no longer own the work. In Utah, meanwhile, […]
I arrived in Provo, UT, on an unseasonably warm May afternoon to photograph Everett Thorpe’s New Deal-era mural “Early and Modern Provo,” which hangs near the entrance to the J. Will Robinson Federal Building. To my surprise, the two guards at the entrance told me the Thorpe mural […]
