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State of the Arts Blog

The reviews are in for ‘Passing Strange’ at Mixed Blood

The reviews are in for ‘Passing Strange’ at Mixed Blood

Mixed Blood‘s production of “Passing Strange” is both a play and a rock show, as it traces a young musician’s journey of self-discovery while traveling in Europe. Punk and electronica combine with gospel and funk as his own musical history is interwoven with what he finds in Amsterdam and Berlin. Critics find the show to Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Ububu, Inferno, and an amateur photographer’s penetrating pictures

Art Hounds: Ububu, Inferno, and an amateur photographer’s penetrating pictures

This week, the emotional pull of puppetry in a Minneapolis garage, a revered Minnesota choreographer’s vision of hell, and the astonishing photographs of Vivian Maier. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Minneapolis mosaicist Lisa Arnold explains why the photographs of Vivian Maier, a mid-20th century amateur artist whose voluminous body of work was Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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Does a good poet make for a good employee? Izzy’s thinks so.

Does a good poet make for a good employee? Izzy’s thinks so.

Izzy’s, the Twin Cities ice cream chain, is marking National Poetry Month by hosting a “Haiku Hiring Party.” Its goal is to hire 25 new employees who can start working in May, just as orders for cones and cups start to surge. Interested applicants are asked to submit an entry “in the form of an Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Vanska “surprised” that Minnesota Orchestra allowed his resignation

Vanska “surprised” that Minnesota Orchestra allowed his resignation

While remaining tight-lipped about negotiations over a possible return to the Minnesota Orchestra, former Music Director Osmo Vanska has told the Washington Post a little about the showdown which led to his resignation. In an article published today in advance of Vanska’s appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend, Vanska reveals  how he tried to bring management and Read more →
by Euan Kerr

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The Pulitzer Prize for poetry’s Minnesota connection

The Pulitzer Prize for poetry’s Minnesota connection

When the 2014 Pulitzers were announced on Monday, we took note that University of Minnesota alum Kevin Siers, of The Charlotte Observer, won the editorial cartooning award. But there’s another connection to Minnesota among the recipients. The prize-winning poetry collection “3 Sections” by Vijay Seshadri was published by Minneapolis-based Graywolf Press. As we noted previously, Read more →
by Hart Van Denburg

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