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At first glance, Sean Connaughty resembles a Martha Stewart protégé neck-deep in a messy home-restoration project. The artist's studio is one of the few left in...
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Few people stumble upon the Rogue Buddha by accident; in fact, you might not find the place even if you're looking for it. The gallery is located on East Hennepin Avenue in a...
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It takes only about 30 minutes of interview time for Minneapolis artist Richard Shelton to evoke the specter of psychologist Stanley Milgram. This is to explain the chaos of...
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If looked at in a certain light, nearly anyone can be beautiful. I learned this on a recent Monday afternoon while in the company of Minneapolis artist Alec Soth at Stand Up...
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Here's a 3:00 a.m. kind of thought. What if all the different facets of you--the slavish clod at work, the polite and attentive sexual mate, the doting and tolerant...
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Americans are a nation of discarders. We love to get rid of the things that no longer suit us, from oppressive religion and political structures to serviceable but slighty...
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The Elliot Park neighborhood of Minneapolis feels like a demilitarized zone. A flat expanse of empty lots and buildings that are posted "For Lease," it separates the great...
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My recent, much-needed vacation at the Shady Acres Home for Frazzled Critics accorded me time to think upon the deeper aspects of art and man's modern condition. Consider as...
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Have you ever wondered where a postmodern artist gets her ideas? Is there a mail-order club, perhaps? It's easy to imagine: Quality Ideas for Postmodern Art Projects. With...
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The third-floor office of photographer Vince Leo at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design is an odd place to spin off into a reverie. The space is sterile and white and...
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Art openings are often beggar's banquets: The opening of "Cultivars" at Thomas Barry's new gallery has a crowd milling in front of the banquet table like lions at a watering...
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"I wasn't going to move here," says 34-year-old artist Shannon Kennedy, late of St. Paul, now of midtown Manhattan. It is early May, and Kennedy is toiling away at a few tasks...
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Welles Emerson is tough and crafty when it comes to her art and makes no bones about being so. Consider the scene one Wednesday afternoon at the Minnesota Artists Gallery at...
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It goes against my better impulses, but I'm going to climb out on a high precipice for a moment and say that I'm pretty certain, nay, I'm almost positive, that visual art is...
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If you happened by the fest organized by the Twin Cities Hardcore Journal on a Sunday a few months ago, you may have been surprised by what was going down. For a brief time,...
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A working draft of the human genome released two years ago revealed a conclusion that many had already intuited. That is, while humans have surprising amounts of shared...
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Wanted: executive director for nonprofit art center. Responsibilities include too much to do in too little time with too few resources. Plenty of backbreaking physical toil...
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A principle of evolutionary psychology states that modern skulls still have Stone Age minds. In other words, there has not been enough time for gray matter to have adapted to...
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Mixed-media artist Ingrid Aubol seems a little wired. It might be her raucous studio space, which is located in the noisy Thorpe Building just a few yards from a train line...
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The comic strip is from another era-- that's clear from the first glance. Part of it is the exaggerated and absurdist storyline, involving art as a tool of the police state....
