POSTED // May 21,2013 - It’s long overdue. The first-ever Utah Biennial art exhibit at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art assembles the most representative Utah contemporary art, after the art world tradition of the Venice Biennale.

POSTED // May 16,2013 - Tom Fec of Black Moth Super Rainbow has always been a musical chameleon, but then, his music is like the field recordings at a sanitarium—if there were an early-’70s dance party going on—with period synthesizers

POSTED // Apr 15,2013 - Salt Lake City’s North Temple street is emblematic, but it’s a symbol of the city that’s also a kind of cipher.

POSTED // Apr 4,2013 - Music is a drug. It’s a truism. But with Spiritualized, it’s more true, more mind-expanding than most. Take the cover of the English band’s 1997 album Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space,

POSTED // Apr 1,2013 - Ana Prvacki’s Neutralize Negative Feelings looks at the code of etiquette that governs the theater of the social. Using familiar objects like embroidery, ceramic hearth plates and public-service announcements,

POSTED // Feb 25,2013 - The Mummies of the World exhibit at The Leonardo has brought mummies and artifacts from around the world to Utah, but it has also brought something that has made a more intensive, arduous journey: the mummies’ stories.

POSTED // Feb 4,2013 - Photographers have described the world with light since the invention of the photographic medium. In color photography, they use the visible spectrum of the color palette to illuminate something about their subject matter.

POSTED // Jan 31,2013 - Ken Stringfellow is hard to get a fix on, both because his music is listenable without being too easily accessible to a mainstream audience, and because his output is limited. Well, it is and it isn’t.

POSTED // Jan 30,2013 - Nick Holland is the Young Democrats of America’s southwest regional director, works for the Utah AFL-CIO and is in his final semester of earning a master’s degree in international affairs & global enterprise at the University of Utah.

POSTED // Jan 14,2013 - One of the roles of art is to show us things we otherwise might not see—segments of the world we might not notice, or to which we might not pay much attention.