Beginning this month, the Twilight Concert Series lights up Salt Lake City’s summer skies with an eclectic mix of music. Running from June to August, this series is not just a concert; it’s the cultural heartbeat of the city during the summer months. An urban plaza in downtown […]
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey began her journey in Los Angeles in 1932, where and when she recalls feeling she was an American. She would soon learn, however, that her Japanese family background marked her in ways she did not understand, and she still refuses to accept. Forced at […]
Amidst all the construction going on in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Patagonia’s SLC store has commissioned a new mural. The store itself is going through a remodel and decided to commission Lizzie Wegner to create a new mural to enliven its parking lot. Wenger […]
The Utah Film Center has announced that Cat Palmer will serve as the Festival Programming Director for the 2024 Utah Queer Film Festival (UQFF), previously known as Damn These Heels. Scheduled to take place from October 24 through 27 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in downtown […]
The unveiling of six artist-transformed pianos was accompanied by a free public concert in front of Abravanel Hall on Friday, May 31. The six upcycled pianos are part of the Key Changes project, a collaboration between Salt Lake County Arts and Culture, the Gina Bachauer Piano Foundation, and […]
On their social media accounts, Meyer Gallery has announced that longtime director Adam Hansen will become the gallery’s new owner. Started as the Hanging Room Gallery in 1965, Meyer Gallery is one of the longest-enduring art galleries in the state. Susan Meyer took over the gallery from her […]
The exhibition’s title, Home Is Never Dead, It Isn’t Even Home, is a reference to a quote from William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun, which goes, “the past is never dead, it isn’t even past”—and in this installation by SLC artists and partners Julian Croft and HALO, the […]
So many of Utah’s storied art venues have lost their homes, or are in danger of losingthem, that you could be excused for thinking we must have too many of them. Why are they among the first places developers think of when looking for somewhere to build? The […]
2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts who have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based […]
A statewide exhibition brings an opportunity to show work to an audience that may not be reachable otherwise, but the work should accurately represent the artist’s materials, style, and subject matter, not create expectations that additional explorations of the artist’s body of work will not fulfill. Or should […]
A visitor to Phillips Gallery during what are becoming their annual showings of the art of Melinda and Joseph Ostraff (see last year’s here) might initially have the impression that the artists work in two formats. One, the more common by far this year, is about the size […]
Karilee Park was frustrated with teaching art. Everything in the field seemed to be lacking: funding, engagement from students, respect from peers, personal enjoyment. All of which made her career choice unsatisfying—a career she hadn’t even planned on entering. Becoming a teacher was a matter of necessity for […]
The main gallery at Phillips is large enough to allow viewing a painting from a moderate distance, a point of view where one current work presents as a charming landscape, featuring a cottage beneath two large trees that resemble tulips. On a clothesline from one of the trees […]
The title piece of Elmer Presslee’s first Salt Lake exhibition since 2017, “The Flannel Void” may be the least disturbing work for many visitors to this chamber of playful horrors in the Underground Gallery at Bountiful Davis Art Center. While his fans will accept it as part of […]
As they conclude their 60th season, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company have announced that Peter Farrow and Alexander Pham are leaving the company. Farrow, from Richmond Virginia, studied at Julliard. He joined the company in 2020. Pham, from Minneapolis, Minnesota studied at the University of Minnesota and joined the company […]
It was a time of rapid change and innovation, but also of anxiety and turmoil: the hope of progress walked hand in hand with the anguish of suffering. And all of it was reflected in the proliferation of art movements in Europe at the beginning of the 20th […]
Day Christensen’s bronze sculpture of a giant Apricot near the corner of 500 North and 300 West has been installed for several months, but it was recently celebrated by Salt Lake City officials in conjunction with the opening of the public plaza the sculpture was commissioned to anchor. […]
A muse is what the ancient Greeks called it: the voice that inspires the artist. The Celts had Brigid. For the Christian artist, there’s the Holy Spirit. The Hindus have Saraswati. For Scotty Mitchell, the voices speaking to her came from an entire menagerie. “One morning, while drinking […]
In 1986, I toured a pair of museums on Trafalgar Square in London: the National Gallery, possibly the finest collection in an international field marked by many superb contenders, and the National Portrait Gallery, where I encountered a modern portrait that came to haunt me over the years. […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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