Utah Museum of Fine Arts receives $80,000 Warhol Foundation grant for 2021 exhibition highlighting human impact on air quality and pollution

Continuing a major trend of earning national recognition for its commitment to contemporary art and innovative programs for the public, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has received an $80,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, its second award from the foundation since 2014. UMFA will apply the grant toward … Read more

Sundance 2020: Nine documentaries, a world premiere creative nonfiction biography, three dramatic narratives, three Sundance Kids films highlight Utah connections to festival selections

Editor’s Note: This is Part II of The Utah Review curtain raiser feature for Sundance 2020. Part I can be found here. It is a fixture in the annual slate of films for Sundance that the Utah Film Center, its cofounder Geralyn Dreyfous and the group to which she belongs Impact Partners Film will be associated with some of … Read more

Sundance 2020: Utah’s film industry punches well above its weight class, opening doors for indie directors, producers

EDITOR’S NOTE: Part I covers a broad overview of the state’s film industry and Part II focuses on 16 films with a significant Utah connection that are in the Sundance 2020 slate. On the eve of the most inclusive and diverse Sundance Film Festival in its history (Jan. 23 – Feb. 2 in Park City, … Read more

World premiere Aberrations of Light, restaging of the live creature and ethereal things, to highlight Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s Allegory concert

In the second chapter of his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, Carl Sagan wrote about the “human-centered conceit” and the work of Copernicus and Galileo proposing to “displace us from cosmic center stage.” It was the image of the earth as a mere orbiting dot that the … Read more

Fifth, final preliminary round for Bachauer’s 2020 Junior and Young Artists International Piano Competition slated in SLC Jan. 16-18

Salt Lake City this week will be the fifth and final stop for the preliminary rounds of the 2020 Junior and Young Artists International Piano Competition of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation. For local audiences, it will be a chance to see the final group of preliminary round contestants: 39 young pianists, ranging in age … Read more

Repertory Dance Theatre’s Emerge an artistically satisfying start to the new year

One of the most important takeaways from Repertory Dance Theatre’s (RDT)  artistic culture is the sincere encouragement its dance artists receive not only as performers but also as choreographers. In the fourth annual edition of Emerge, undeniably the strongest so far in this RDT series as a New Year’s opener, the dancers embraced their creative … Read more

Repertory Dance Theatre to open 2020 with new works by dancers in Emerge

Following several weeks of a hiatus, performing artists of the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) are returning to full speed and for 2020’s first weekend, most of the company is setting new short pieces to be performed at Emerge. The concert, in its fourth year, fulfills in part a major component of the dance artist’s contract … Read more

Fascinating, innovative, collaborative: Top Ten Moments of the Utah Enlightenment for 2019

Since The Utah Review started publishing in 2014, the emphasis on the Utah Enlightenment has dominated the coverage of what is new and original in the arts and culture landscape locally. Utah’s natural beauty always has appealed strongly as a branding asset. But, as we have covered the arts and cultural scene, there is no … Read more

Dan Higgins’ Speak is fascinating choreography of spatial form in storytelling

If we abide by tradition, many storytellers pursue the arc for the temporal narrative model. Suggesting a different emphasis, 75 years ago, Joseph Frank published the essay The Idea of Spatial Form, and among the novelists he discussed was Marcel Proust, who excelled at streams of consciousness writing. He wrote, “Proust gives us what might … Read more

Live blog and review: Circle, presented by Plan-B Theatre, KUER-FM’s RadioWest

Welcome to another edition of a dark, twisted Christmas tradition with Circle, the 14th episode of its Radio Hour series as part of Plan-B Theatre’s partnership with RadioWest, hosted by Doug Fabrizio on KUER-FM (90.1). Circle will premiere Friday, Dec. 13, at 11 a.m. during the live RadioWest Friday broadcast. This will be the sixth episode in the series’ … Read more