Utah Arts Festival 2025 Feature Profile: Painter Alicia Hanson among this year’s Emerging Artists participants

EDITOR’S NOTE: For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-22, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group profiles of artists, performers, entertainers and some newcomers to the event. Visitors will also see the first significant change of the last 15 years in the festival map. There are several new … Read more

Utah Arts Festival 2025 Feature Profile: Not a reality show! blues group Sister Wives jamming since 2003

EDITOR’S NOTE: For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-22, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group profiles of artists, performers, entertainers and some newcomers to the event. Visitors will also see the first significant change of the last 15 years in the festival map. There are several new … Read more

Utah Arts Festival 2025 Feature Profile: Muralist Ash Ryan part of powerhouse lineup set for Urban Arts venue

EDITOR’S NOTE: For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-22, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group profiles of artists, performers, entertainers and some newcomers to the event. There are several new features this year: Voodoo Productions’ street theater will include roaming graffiti stilt walkers, contortionists and living master … Read more

Utah Arts Festival 2025 Feature Profile: Kayla Von der Heide’s ‘dreamy desert music’

EDITOR’S NOTE: For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-22, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group profiles of artists, performers, entertainers and some newcomers to the event. There are several new features this year: Voodoo Productions’ street theater will include roaming graffiti stilt walkers, contortionists and living master … Read more

Utah Arts Festival 2025 Feature Profile: Laura Junge, 3-D Artist and her visual language of ‘surrealistic expressionism’

EDITOR’S NOTE: For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-22, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group profiles of artists, performers, entertainers and some newcomers to the event. There are several new features this year: Voodoo Productions’ street theater will include roaming graffiti stiltwalkers, contortionists and living master works … Read more

Early summer shows at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Out Loud 2025, 2025 Gala Art Exhibition: The Factory

Early summer is always special at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). The Utah Review looks at two of the latest exhibitions, including Out Loud: 2025 and the works by 57 Utah artists that are available in the 2025 Gala Art Auction: The Factory. OUT LOUD: GROWING PAINS A wonderful lead-in to the Utah … Read more

Ballet West’s Works from Within proves excellent showcase of choreographic potential of five company dancers

Ballet West’s inaugural Works from Within program proved to be an excellent showcase for highlighting the choreographic strengths of five of the company’s dancers. While the program featured worthy pieces by two dancers who already have carved out solid niches as choreographers, the three newcomers delighted the audience with choreography that produced some of the … Read more

Torrey House Press series: Zak Podmore’s outstanding Life After Dead Pool on trinity of water rights, conservation and climate change in the American West

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in an ongoing series of features highlighting authors and new books published by Torrey House Press in Utah.  In 2011, like many others, Zak Podmore thought that the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell would be around for centuries, with the Colorado River being sacrificed and forever stripped of its … Read more

Continuing through July 27, Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ Gateway to Himalayan Art, traveling exhibition by Rubin Museum, is extraordinary for its holistic multimedia impacts

The traveling exhibition Gateway to Himalayan Art, which continues at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)  through July 27, is extraordinary on several levels. The exceptional amounts of detail in traditional scroll paintings (thangka), sculptures, medical instruments and ritual objects are mesmerizing. Just as extraordinary are the equally meticulous installations outlining step-by-step lost-wax metal … Read more

Works from Within, Ballet West’s newest program, set to premiere this week, featuring world premieres choreographed by five company dancers

When Adam Sklute joined Ballet West as artistic director in 2007, it had been nine years since the company had last produced any new work. But, that would change dramatically. For example, between 2011 and 2016, Ballet West presented 16 Utah premieres of works by past and present choreographers. By 2016, the company’s Innovations program … Read more