Alternate Sensations: Stephanie Leaks

Alternate Sensations: Stephanie Leaks
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Earlier this year, Stephanie Leaks identified as an alt-sensory poet, which they describe as an exploration of abstract feelings that’s grounded in physical sensation. … read more

Pulitzers and You: Imagining a Better Future

Pulitzers and You: Imagining a Better Future
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As opposed to being a chronological presentation or history of the prize, Pulitzer Prize Photographs is a quilt of our best, worst and most mundane moments. Walking through it imparts a sense of human mythology that simply seeing the awarded photographs each year just can’t. … read more

Review: Zombie Thoughts

Review: Zombie Thoughts
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Zombie Thoughts is. Put on by Plan-B Production Company, Jennifer A. Kokai co-authored Zombie Thoughts with her then, nine (now 11) year-old son, Oliver Kokai-Means. It’s an interactive play for children about helping characters in a video game. … read more

Film Review: Assassination Nation

Film Review: Assassination Nation
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Assassination Nation empowers young women while condemning the forces that have taught them how to act. If you can’t act like a young lady, we’re going to murder you, figuratively or literally, so take your pick. … read more

The Other I: Marisa Morán Jahn

The Other I: Marisa Morán Jahn
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MIRROR | MASK is an exhibition by Marisa Morán Jahn running at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts that asks us to consider questions of identity, the self and the other through various media. … read more

Review: Mopey Wrecks

Review: Mopey Wrecks
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Mopey Wrecks (A Performative Analysis of Sibling Interdependency and the Increasing Unlikelihood of Returning to Moscow) is an intricate weaving of feelings between characters who can’t help but both bring each other up and tear another down. … read more

No Man’s an Island: Andrew Rice

No Man’s an Island: Andrew Rice
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Andrew Rice’s showing at God Hates Robots is far from his first. With a decade on the scene, he’s shown at the UMFA, UMOCA and many others, and the style of artwork he’ll be showing at Robots doesn’t even showcase his printmaking, which is accomplished in its own right. … read more

NOW-ID’s A Tonal Caress Review

NOW-ID’s A Tonal Caress Review
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“The desire to understand and be understood is at the core of human experience,” writes Charlotte Boye-Christensen, NOW-ID’s artistic director. “Every gesture opens a fleeting vulnerability with opportunities and dangers of self expression.” … read more

Damn These Heels 2018: Sisterhood

Damn These Heels 2018: Sisterhood
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Sisterhood is co-parenting without romance. Sei (played by Gigi Leung as her older self and Fish Liew as her teenage self) and Ling (Jennifer Yu) are two Chinese women without any romantic attraction to each other. … read more