NEW YORK TIMES

An Exhibition of U.F.O. Art Lands in Idaho

By Gisela Williams | T Contributing Editor

“…In 2019, Courtney Gilbert, the curator at the Sun Valley Museum of Art in Ketchum, Idaho, started to notice a flurry of news articles about UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), as NASA terms UFOs. Then, during the pandemic, Gilbert says, there was a big uptick in sightings, particularly in her home state. “At one point Idaho was the state where the most encounters were reported,” she notes. Less interested in aliens than in what motivated her fellow humans to seek other signs of life, Gilbert commissioned the Chicago-based artist Deb Sokolow, known for her semi-fictitious drawings and artist books, and the Seattle-based painter Cable Griffith to create works for an exhibition, “Sightings,” which opens Sept. 14…”

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