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The Built/Natural Flux of the Urban/Environment Seen Through Stephanie...
Stephanie L. Rogers, Ragweed. From the Urban/Environment installation, part of Arts on Chicago. Courtesy of the artist. During a recent event at The Third Place Gallery, photographer Stephanie L....
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Njideka Akunyili and Her Elegant Scrapbook
Njideka Akunyili’s five mixed media works in I Still Face You at Franklin Art Works are elusive and elegant; the sort of work that asks time and attention from the viewer. By filling up her spaces with...
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The Stories Behind What’s Printed on the Fabric of Your Life
Print courtesy of the Goldstein Museum of Design. Anything that prompts me to see the everyday world in a new way, I love. Usually, photographs that capture the unexpected beauty in the mundane are an...
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Found Objects and the Nature of Things
Karen Wirth, Found. Photo courtesy of the artist and Form + Content Gallery. In 2007, the inaugural year of the Form + Content co-op gallery, members Jay Isenberg and Lynda Monick-Isenberg designed...
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You Can Blame All These “Art of the Real” Shows on Duchamp
Keith Haring, Inflatable Baby, 1985, printed plastic. Gift of Carl and Patricia Sheppard. Photo courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum. Blame it on Duchamp. If he hadn’t cracked open the art world—and...
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Paintings Dense with Mystery and Material Passion Plus a New Minneapolis...
Michael Thomsen, Firegarden. Courtesy of the artist and Friedman Iverson. Earlier this month, the law firm Friedman Iverson—which serves, in part, arts and entertainment professionals—moved to new digs...
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An Engaging, Irony-Free Foray into the Making of Performance
Carl Atiya Swanson (Savage Umbrella) will host a rock n’ roll conversation at the Oct 7 Monday Live Arts, part of a larger work in progress, tentatively titled Akhenaten, NV. Collaborators/performers:...
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The White Page: A New Minneapolis Space
Edward Ping installation shot. Photo by the author. Several checkered boxes for Chris & Rob’s pizza and Pabst Blue Ribbon greet me at the door. I’m at The White Page, and the iconic PBR brand has...
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A Fresh Way to #Picturedance
#picturedance photos by V. Paul Virtucio I enjoy weird shit. I’m declaring that right up front, because that’s how I pick what dance I want to see. Another admission: I didn’t follow the directions...
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Seeing Karl Unnasch’s Grand Masticator
Karl Unnasch’s The Ruminant (The Grand Masticator) on site in a cornfield near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, October 12, 2013. All photos by Aaron Dysart. Guest post by artist Aaron Dysart: Karl Unnasch’s The...
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Known Unknowns and Steffani Jemison’s Stroke
Steffani Jemison, Stroke. Slide courtesy of the Bindery Projects Let’s consider both ends in the spectrum of possible exhibition designs. One day, you walk into a gallery and the wall texts include...
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Road Songs: Dannebrog, Nebraska
A photograph of Dannebrog’s orchestra leader from K’s Korner in Dannebrog, Nebraska. Past fields, strip malls, and rotting pumpkins, we fought white-knuckled against the wind to arrive in Dannebrog,...
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Field Notes: Scott Nedrelow’s Afterlight
Scott Nedrelow, Untitled. Installation photos courtesy of David Petersen Gallery. Consider: Scott Nedrelow – Afterlight Location: David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis. Items: Six paintings, on Epson...
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The Dark Power of a Crowd Dancing as One
The Student was presented as part of the Women of Substance Series by The O’Shaughnessy and Vanessa Voskuil Performance April 3 and 4, 2014. What ends do the repetition, unison and gestures performed...
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TU at 10
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel in Hikari. Photo: Brandon Stengel Wow: All this for a local dance company. As we gazed, wide-eyed and stunned, at the nearly full house for TU Dance’s 10th anniversary concert...
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Cheatsheet to Northrop’s “Solid but Safe” 2014-2015 Season
Martha Graham Dance Company, Errand Into the Maze. Photo: John Deane Now that Northrop is ensconced in its shiny new home and is no longer just a dance series and house-for-hire (the jazz season is no...
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6 Things to See and Do at Northern Spark
Janaki Ranpura, Egg & Sperm Ride :: Hide & Seek, Northern Spark 2011. Photo: Patrick Kelley. As in previous years, Northern Spark 2014 promises to bring together an enticing mix of well-known...
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A Day on the Lake
This weekend, I took a trip out to the Art Shanty Projects, a temporary community of artist-made structures on White Bear Lake, open to visitors during the month of February. Now in its 10th year, the...
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