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State of the Arts Blog

Artist activists on education, ownership, and true community

Artist activists on education, ownership, and true community

Should artists of color seek representation in major institutions, or should they create their own spaces to better serve their communities? That was just one of the ideas that we wrestled with at a recent conversation with four Twin Cities artists/activists who are using their talents in a myriad of ways to promote and support Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Matisse: A legacy of color and light

Sometimes what looks like a problem is actually the door to a new opportunity. This is a lesson Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator Erika Holmquist-Wahl learned first hand when she was forced to cancel plans for a show of portraits by Henri Matisse from the Centre Pompidou in Paris. “We had been planning years in Read more →
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Teen poetry, Fargo orchestral music, and paintings of YouTube partiers

Art Hounds: Teen poetry, Fargo orchestral music, and paintings of YouTube partiers

This week, a youthful poetry slam, one of the jewels of the Fargo-Moorhead art scene, and grainy nighttime party videos transformed into paintings, have captured the hounds. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, according to David Hamilton, is part of the foundation on which the community’s art scene is Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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Art Hounds: Gidion’s Knot, Anne Labovitz, and a post Valentine’s Day pick-me-up

Art Hounds: Gidion’s Knot, Anne Labovitz, and a post Valentine’s Day pick-me-up

This week, romantic show tunes and piano stylings, layers of portraits, and a gut wrenching play about a parent-teacher conference. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Minnesota Museum of American Art curator Christina Chang found Anne Labovitz’s exhibition “Layers” to be a refreshing immersion in portraiture art. Christina admires Labovitz’s technique of layering Read more →
by Chris Roberts

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MSP International Film Festival unveils first eight films of 2014

MSP International Film Festival unveils first eight films of 2014

The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival released the names of eight of the more than 200 films going to be shown at the fest this year, which runs April 3-19. The full line up will be released early in March. “Club Sandwich” (Fernando Eimbcke, director; Mexico, 2013) A deadpan coming of age story set Read more →
by Euan Kerr

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