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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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 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...
