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Five Black Utahns talk about artworks in ‘Black Refractions’ that hold personal meaning The exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is open until April 10. (Marc Bernier | Photo courtesy of Kehinde Wiley, Roberts Projects, American Federation of Arts, and Utah Museum of Fine Arts) Kehinde Wiley, Conspicuous Fraud Series #1 (Eminence), 2001, oil on canvas. The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Anne Ehrenkranz, 2002.10.14. © Kehinde Wiley. | Updated: 11:12 p.m. As artist Matthew Sketch considers the well-dressed man in the painting “Eminenc...

’s For Garfield, Jordan Casteel’s Kevin the Kiteman hits home. In the piece, Kevin sits on a bicycle decked in kites of various kinds—hawks, wings, rainbows, an anime mermaid. Behind him is a state office building engraved with and named after Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African American to be elected from New York to Congress. “An amazing feat,” Garfield says, “but based upon the missing letters in his name, this symbolizes what’s often the neglect and disregard for preserving Black history and culture in this country.” Photo courtesy of American Federation of Arts. ...

The Studio Museum in Harlem At the moment, The Studio Museum in Harlem remains closed to the public as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But the institution's history and cultural significance is available to visitors in Utah thanks to a traveling exhibition. Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem opens this week at the University of Utah's Utah Museum of Fine Arts to showcase work from The Studio Museum's permanent collection. Founded in 1968, The Studio Museum has beco...

Openings and Closings: January 6 to January 12 Elizabeth Lanza Silence is Golden by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), 1986. Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; photograph by Marc Bernier, courtesy of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Kicking off the New Year, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will introduce an exhibition on January 23 entitled Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem. This exhibition is comprised of one hundred works by some eighty artists from the past century, whose work in many instances is und...