4/3 KUER: Yes, the new Salt Lake City airport tunnel will be a shorter walk. It’s also artsy
Where in Utah can you be 26 feet underground and 12 feet above water at the same time?
The answer is a new tunnel at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Starting in October it will shorten the walk to Concourse B. It will also feature an art installation known as “The River Tunnel” to make the journey more enjoyable.
Those who have traveled through the airport aren’t afraid to share their complaints about the long walk from the security checkpoint to Concourse B. Right now, you need to trek halfway through the west side of Concourse A, then hop on an escalator down to the “Mid Concourse Tunnel,” where you walk the length of nearly two Salt Lake City blocks before arriving at the entrance of Concourse B. Altogether, the stroll is a little over half a mile.
3/29 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: How Commemorations to the Disenfranchised Have Forced a Reckoning with Utah’s History and Present
The weeks after Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer swept the 96th Academy Awards, nabbing the coveted Best Picture award, the direct legacy of the subject’s work, among other calamities the West has endured this century, continues to reverberate throughout the Southwest.
Utah’s west desert has a notable connection to the Oppenheimer fable—on the border of Nevada, the small gambling town of Wendover is an unlikely harbinger of an American tragedy. It’s here that one can still see abandoned military barracks and other structures from the Second World War. Most notably, Wendover houses a museum to the Enola Gay hangar, the aircraft that carried Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb that detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 6 to August 9, 1945, killing between 129,000-226,000 souls.
3/21 THE UTAH REVIEW: The vibrant gifts of Inheritance in Andrew Alba’s works at Material art gallery
Andrew Alba remembers the prints of paintings such as Emiliano Zapata, the leading figure of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, and works by Mexican artist Diego Rivera that occupied a place of honor in his grandparents’ home. The grandson of Mexican migrant workers who came to the U.S., Alba says, in an interview with The Utah Review, the memories of growing up in their home — sitting at the kitchen table, watching his grandmother tend to her plants and absorbing the pride of their Mexican cultural heritage — set the foundation for curating his identity as an artist.
Viewing the repetitive undulating rhythms and counterpoints of movement on the canvases of Alba’s works, one can feel clearly the subtly expressed organic complex of emotions which carries this Salt Lake City artist, who is now in his late thirties. When one learns about the diverse assortment of muses this self-taught artist has interacted with and curated since his childhood, it becomes even clearer for the viewer to find their own emotional parallels to the ideals, beliefs, ethics and cultural touchstones which propel Alba’s work.
3/20 SLTRIB: Meet the sculptor behind the Statue of Responsibility: Gary Lee Price was inspired by his previous work and the writings of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl
The Utah artist behind a proposed 300-foot statue that depicts the idea of responsibility said his design is about “coming together” — a concept and an image that, as he puts it, a kindergartner could look at and understand.
“It’s about being there for each other, just on the simplest terms. That’s what I hope people would see in it and remember that it is about,” sculptor Gary Lee Price said.
A nonprofit foundation has proposed erecting the 300-foot Statue of Responsibility at the massive development at the Point of the Mountain, to overlook the Draper location and the commuters traveling between Salt Lake and Utah counties.
3/17 SLTRIB: Why supporters want to build a 300-foot statue at Point of the Mountain, while others are skeptical
Imagine a colossal pillar of two hands, each gripping the other’s arm, rising 300 feet above new development at Point of the Mountain and towering over drivers commuting between Salt Lake and Utah counties.
The Statue of Responsibility, long envisioned as a West Coast companion to the Statue of Liberty, would be nearly the same height as Lady Liberty atop her pedestal in New York Harbor. The monument has been pitched, without success, to coastal cities in Washington state and California over the years since it was first proposed by late Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl.
Now, its supporters want Utah to donate 5 publicly owned acres to locate the proposed statue in Draper.
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