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Ten Years of Arts and Cultural Criticism in the American Southwest (2015-25)

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FX Hedging for Fund Managers: From Policy to Strategy and Implementation | Corpay

In this post by Andrew Shortreid, SVP Global Institutional Sales at Corpay Cross-Border Solutions, he details important steps portfolio managers, members of investment committees, and fund managers can take to create effective hedging policy and optimize FX risk mitigation over time. In this piece, you’ll hear from a seasoned expert, who has worked in challenging roles in the fund and institutional space across European markets.

Currency and Financial Instrument Correlation in FX Markets

Correlation—a statistical measure of how two variables move in relation to each other—plays a key role in shaping trading strategies, managing risk, and identifying market opportunities in FX. Correlation coefficients, which range from -1.0 to +1.0, help quantify the strength and direction of relationships between currency pairs. A value of +1.0 indicates perfect positive correlation, meaning the two variables move in the same direction 100% of the time. A coefficient of -1.0 reflects perfect negative correlation, where the variables move in opposite directions.
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When Sound Becomes Structure: The Layered Languages of Gonzalo and Susana Silva

Moving from ancient systems of communication into the modern period, Silva and Silva reference early recording devices and the physical mechanics of storing information. In Gonzalo Silva’s “Wandering Thread” (2025), printed and etched Plexiglass panels reproduce colonial and modern representations of quipus, the Andean recording system composed of knotted cords.
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UMOCA’s “Altered States” Depicts a Vivid, Far-Out American West

At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media. Among the voices helping to define this picturesque vision was Henry Herbert Knibbs, a Canadian poet born in 1874 and widely regarded as a forebear of the Western genre.
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Derek Dyer and the Imagination Economy of Salt Lake City

Some of the most visible arts experiences in Salt Lake City—the SLC White Party, the Urban Arts Festival, and Dreamscapes: Salt Lake City’s Immersive Art Experience—share more than spectacle or scale. They are part of a longer arc of creative entrepreneurship shaped by Derek Dyer, whose work has consistently focused on building events and spaces that support artists not just aesthetically, but materially. Dyer’s approach has always been deliberately glamorous, aimed at an artistic crowd that values atmosphere, ambition, and polish.
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Ten Years of Arts and Cultural Criticism in the American Southwest (2015-25) - lox01.com

This is my ten-year anniversary of writing arts and cultural criticism in (and around) Utah: a long, slightly chaotic labor of love that has given me far more than a publication list. It gave me a way into rooms I didn’t know how to enter yet—openings, rehearsals, studios, back corners of galleries, folding chairs at community meetings—and, more importantly, it gave me people.
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A Geometry of Balance in Dan Evans’ Cut-Paper Abstractions at Finch Lane

Dan Evans’ work begins with the question of what remains once an image has been pared to its essentials. “I’ve always been drawn to systems where clarity matters,” he says, “where you pare things down until the lack of recognition engages the viewer and holds itself.” It’s a clarity rooted not in what the image depicts, but in the structure left behind after everything recognizable has been reduced.
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Holly Rios Turns Printmaking Into a Conversation on Seeing and Being Seen

Rios’s path to MFA printmaker sharpened her focus on how women learn to see themselves, and her new exhibition uses collage, text, and the uncanny to press into that quiet examination. Her silhouetted collages and cropped bodies form a fragmented visual language that mirrors those inherited pressures and expectations. The show invites a slower kind of looking, where the familiar turns strange just long enough to reveal how deeply those expectations shape us.
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The Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) Finds Sanctuary in the Temple

Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.
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David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin: Transcending Time and Space

Like colorful ensos or organic ouroboros unfurling around black centers, David Rios Ferreira’s collages are circular and dynamic forms, what he calls “imagined gateways, objects through which we may connect with those we cannot reach on this plane.” Accompanied by writing, photographs, and video by Denae Shanidiin, a Diné and Korean artist, the exhibition is the pair’s collaboration inspired by missing and murdered Indigenous people.