{"id":104040,"date":"2026-06-23T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=104040"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:38:15","slug":"alfredo-jaar-the-end-at-umoca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/alfredo-jaar-the-end-at-umoca\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Jaar: The End at UMOCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"52\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104041\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Salt Lake City<br data-start=\"18\" data-end=\"21\" \/>June 26 \u2013 September 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"403\">In <em data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"95\">The End<\/em>, internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar turns his attention to the environmental crisis facing the Great Salt Lake. Through a series of photographs, Jaar documents the lake\u2019s dramatic decline, which has lost 73 percent of its water and 60 percent of its surface area since the mid-nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"812\">The exhibition highlights the contrast between the lake\u2019s beauty and its accelerating disappearance. As water levels fall, salinity increases and vast areas of lakebed become exposed, releasing dust containing arsenic, lead, and mercury into the atmosphere. Jaar\u2019s images address the ecological and public health implications of this transformation while serving as a visual record of a landscape in crisis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"961\">According to the artist, the photographs are presented in a deliberately modest scale \u201cas a kind of visual whisper, a lament for our dying planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"963\" data-end=\"1045\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utahmoca.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utah Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a><br data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1001\" \/>20 S. West Temple<br data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1021\" \/>Salt Lake City, UT 84101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake CityJune 26 \u2013 September 5, 2026 In The End, internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar turns his attention to the environmental crisis facing the Great Salt Lake. Through a series of photographs, Jaar documents the lake\u2019s dramatic decline, which has lost 73 percent of its water and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":104041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-salt_lake_area"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black_rock-1920x1440-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-09-06 08:36:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104042,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104040\/revisions\/104042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}