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Arts and Culture

MPR News has you covered with news and stories about local art and culture happenings across Minnesota.

Art Hounds: Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what's exciting in local art. You can explore arts events here, or become an Art Hound today.

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Art Friend: Everyone needs an art friend. Art Friend is a new segment with our arts team. Art spaces can feel exclusive and art can be confusing, obtuse, and even boring. But, especially with the right context, everyone can be a critic. So let us be your guide- your Art Friend. Listen or read Art Friend stories here.

Our arts coverage is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Meet the guy who has been a hero, a pirate, a 'mountain of molten lust'

Meet the guy who has been a hero, a pirate, a 'mountain of molten lust'

Model Jason Aaron Baca has appeared on 475 romance book covers. By his tally, that's more than even Fabio. His is a story of hard work and luck in the swashbuckling, bodice-ripping world of romance.

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From private collection to lending library: Quatrefoil grows as resource for LGBT community

From private collection to lending library: Quatrefoil grows as resource for LGBT community

A new exhibition opens at the Hennepin History Museum in Minneapolis Thursday night on the Quatrefoil Library, one of just a few LGBT lending libraries in the nation. Over the past 30 years, it's grown into a research center and community space.
by Marianne Combs

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Poetry as protest at 'Black Poets Speak Out'

Poetry as protest at 'Black Poets Speak Out'

One of the poets to perform was Sarah Ogutu who said, "If words have the power of life and death then when no one speaks, this must just be death."

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'Game of Thrones' earns a leading 23 Emmy Award nominations

Power-and-blood fantasy saga "Game of Thrones" ruled the Emmy Award nominations Thursday with nominations that included best drama, while a real-life epic of murder and celebrity, "The People v. O.J. Simpson," was close behind with 22 nods.
by Associated Press

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