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Arts Feature
Get Real
Can a small school of figurative art revive a great, dead tradition in painting?
Michael Fallon
Published: April 5, 2000
On a rather ordinary Thursday morning in March, six students in the Bougie Studio are struggling to save an artistic movement from extinction. What they're doing at the moment...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Can an art gallery in a rehabilitated theater change the picture for East Franklin Avenue?
Michael Fallon
Published: March 22, 2000
The New Franklin Theater has always had potential; on this everyone agrees. Since it was targeted for redevelopment near the beginning of the last decade, this building at 1021...
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Success, on a Small Scale
While some monumental artists starve, Jason Barnett carves out a creative niche in the figurine business
Michael Fallon
Published: February 23, 2000
The two sculptural figures are exuberant. One, a man in a black tuxedo, leans over another, a woman in a pink dress. His right hand supports her back, and his left hand flies...
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Mississippi Masala
The Soap Factory launches a raiding party on stuffy art; the Weisman maps our cultural biases
Michael Fallon
Published: September 29, 1999
More a freebooter's hideaway than an art space, the Soap Factory is located in an industrial zone just two blocks from the power station on St. Anthony Falls. A rough...
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Culturata
A Hot Radiator
Michael Fallon
Published: September 15, 1999
AT FIRST GLANCE, you might mistake Lee Anne Swanson for a young, up-and-coming advertising executive, or perhaps a junior public-relations officer at a multinational...
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Arts Feature
The More the Merrier
Are the "published" and decorated prints of Edina's Fingerhut Gallery the same as collectible originals? Or are they exceptionally expensive posters?
Michael Fallon
Published: August 25, 1999
The décor of the Fingerhut Gallery in the Edina Galleria is a study in oxblood. On the outside, four windows of smoky glass connect four oxblood-colored columns....
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The Birth of the New
Meet Jason Kassel, founder of the Eat Bugs Gallery, inventor of the New Expressionism, and a master in the art of self-invention
Michael Fallon
Published: August 11, 1999
On the fifth floor of the Calhoun Building in the Lyn-Lake district of Minneapolis, above the improv classes, dance studios, and screen-writing seminars of the third and...
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Public Image Limited
A new exhibition moves public art out of the town square and into a conceptual realm
Michael Fallon
Published: July 7, 1999
The most striking thing about Public Art: Toward a New Definition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery is that it hardly seems like art at all. In fact, while...
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A Fine Day for Pressing Pulp
Cave Paper rides the renaissance of fine-arts papermaking
Michael Fallon
Published: June 16, 1999
In an alley that runs through the heart of Minneapolis's Warehouse District, ten sweaty men have gathered outside the Fisher Paper Box Company to relax in the warmth of the...
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Two for the Show
Amy Toscani sizes up sculpture; Carol Padberg pictures quilting and collage
Michael Fallon
Published: June 2, 1999
When sculptor Amy Toscani and mixed-media artist Carol Padberg found out that the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was...
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Seeing Red
Lakota artist Francis Yellow turns historical injuries into polemical offensives
Michael Fallon
Published: April 28, 1999
In Francis Yellow's bronze sculpture "All of You Out of the Way," an Indian warrior wearing a full war bonnet sits atop a massive buffalo and rides down a flailing white man...
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Mistaken Identity
Artist Lorna Simpson separates the photo from the caption and the woman from the stereotype
Michael Fallon
Published: April 14, 1999
In 1994 Lorna Simpson finished her wig project. Throughout the mid-'90s, the Brooklyn-based artist had been creating serial editions of photographic imagery printed on thick...
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Pictures from an Exhibition
Robert Gober's drawings reveal the design of his career; Frank Gaard explores portraiture by way of the funny papers
Michael Fallon
Published: March 17, 1999
Certain artists are known for their particular, enduring images. Monet, for example, painted haystacks and water lilies; Van Gogh did sunflowers; and Degas, ballerinas. But...
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The Big Picture
Painting for museums and parking ramps alike, artist Ta-coumba Aiken treats the city as his canvas
Michael Fallon
Published: February 24, 1999
When Ta-coumba Aiken was growing up in Evanston, Ill., his father, a janitor at the local Woolworth's, brought home crayons, papers, and the like from dumpsters behind the...
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Paint It Black
Absence/Presence searches for the aesthetics of genocide; Thomas Hart Benton hits the road
Michael Fallon
Published: January 20, 1999
If you've ever visited any of the Holocaust memorial museums of Eastern Europe, you perhaps know the intensity of witnessing a creative act undertaken in the midst of despair....
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Culturata
Home Is Where the Art Is
Michael Fallon
Published: November 11, 1998
THE BEAUXMAGE FINE ART gallery is an unassuming place on a busy street just south of downtown St. Paul. As I knock at its front door on a recent weekday evening, I'm greeted by...
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Arts Feature
And Take Your Canvas with You!
A booming real estate market paints an ugly picture for the future of artists and galleries in Northeast Minneapolis
Michael Fallon
Published: November 11, 1998
On a Friday evening at the beginning of this fall, people streamed into the Art is Not a Sacred Object (AØSO) Cooperative Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis for the last...
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I Am the Cosmos
Talking computers and the chronos with sexagenarian artist Aribert Munzner
Michael Fallon
Published: September 2, 1998
"I get as much energy from the scientific community as I do from the art community." So explains Aribert Munzner, a 68-year-old Minneapolis painter and former professor of...
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