I've been obsessed with this lonely songwriter lately. "Obsessed" is an understatement, actually. I want to know how he wound up where he is and... More >>

Half an hour into the second opening night of the "The Juxtapoz Group Show 2006," the Ox-Op Gallery is packed. A few members of the babbling... More >>

If you had to pick the quintessential portrait, perhaps you'd chose the Mona Lisa, or the eerie painting of your great-grandfather that you... More >>

"The House of Oracles," on exhibition through January 16 at the Walker Art Center, is a retrospective devoted to Chinese-born French artist... More >>

Bill Daley never set out to corner the Hilda market. (More on that in a minute.) Nor did the former Gopher football star and sports announcer... More >>

Timothy Piotrowski is amply willing to die for his art--just not all at once. "I use this selenium toner," the photographer relates, stooping... More >>

Tonight, Niche 3708 is a hot new art space in more ways than one. Tucked into a quiet residential corner of south Minneapolis, the tiny... More >>

The Good Shepherd is an ordinary painting of a charming cottage situated in a pasture. Rendered in oddly luminescent oils, the cottage's eaves... More >>

If you had to choose a single image to represent government-sanctioned avant-garde or Socialist Realism during the repressive Soviet regime,... More >>

Billy Childish is England's greatest undercover performance artist--in a Mod-reborn-as-neo-Edwardian-spy package. Even his mighty moustache, so... More >>

Over a dozen contestants put their artistic skills to utter waste in our recent contest pondering the latest addition to the Minneapolis... More >>

Uncle Sam wants you to pull his finger. The famous image of the dour, white-bearded old man rallying Army recruits with that sinister stare... More >>

The Walker Art Center reopens on April 16 with a silvery, hulking facade that ominously oversees rush hour along Hennepin Avenue. While the... More >>

Anju Kataria is visibly--and audibly--elated. "It's so nice to see so many familiar faces at once," the curator of Madhubani: Art Without Walls... More >>

Inside the ArTrujillo gallery, the music piped through the loudspeakers seamlessly segues from a Neil Diamond song to a song by the defunct emo... More >>

When the Walker closed for expansion in February, the choice to eschew the cultural landscape for a year could have easily been forgiven. But... More >>

Inside the Weisman Art Museum, the click-clack of high heels reverberates throughout the hushed gallery's hallways. Words, if spoken at all, are... More >>

As a New York native, Quito Ziegler doesn't exactly embrace the outdoors. Instead, she photographs vast Minnesota landscapes and duplicates them... More >>

Long before comic-book superheroes and tennis bad boys were getting lactose-smeared for the "Got Milk?" ad campaign, the Canadian conceptual-art... More >>