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Arts Feature
Connaughty's Choice
How one artist has gone from crafting 48-foot paintings to walking on plants--all in search of the spontaneous image
Michael Fallon
Published: November 26, 2003
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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Arts Feature
A Space on This Wall Could Cost You $800
"Gallery Fees" pit the struggling gallery owner against the starving artist
Michael Fallon
Published: November 12, 2003
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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Art
Fear, Honor, Obey
A new show at the MIA makes art feel like torture
Michael Fallon
Published: October 22, 2003
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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Cover Story
One of the Great Ones
In search of photographic beauty and big dreams at a Minneapolis dive bar
Michael Fallon
Published: September 10, 2003
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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Me, Myself, and I
The many faces of John Snyder
Michael Fallon
Published: July 23, 2003
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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Art
Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness
Collecting pieces of a disposable nation
Michael Fallon
Published: July 2, 2003
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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Art
The Outsiders
Art tributaries that are miles from the mainstream
Michael Fallon
Published: May 14, 2003
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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Art
Sexual Reproduction
Transvestites invade the films of Brian DePalma; a naked man reproduces Gustav Klimt and Siouxsie Sioux
Michael Fallon
Published: February 12, 2003
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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Art
Book of Life
The literary fantasies of artist Mary Esch
Michael Fallon
Published: February 5, 2003
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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Arts Feature
Once Upon a Time in America
Vince Leo Turns three generations of his Italian family into a national photo album
Michael Fallon
Published: December 25, 2002
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
Nature Boy
David Lefkowitz manipulates the environment, one painting at a time
Michael Fallon
Published: November 13, 2002
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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Cover Story
Baby Please Don't Go
Former Minnesotans Say the Twin Cities Cultural Scene Is Insular. Insecure. Unprofitable. Out of Touch. What Does It Mean to Live in an Artists' Paradise If Everyone Wants to Leave?
Michael Fallon
Published: September 11, 2002
"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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Arts Feature
Wade in the Water
Welles Emerson maps the surface of a wave--and the art of science
Michael Fallon
Published: August 14, 2002
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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Arts Feature
The Real Thing
From flesh satellites to cities of styrofoam: The fine art of faking it
Michael Fallon
Published: June 19, 2002
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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Music
The Bombing Starts in Five Minutes
Michael Fallon
Published: June 12, 2002
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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Art
Live Nude Girls
Florence Hill and the art of figure drawing
Michael Fallon
Published: April 17, 2002
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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Arts Feature
Only Masochists Need Apply
You say you want to pursue your love of art by directing a nonprofit gallery? Well, what do you know about sprinkler systems and snow shoveling?
Michael Fallon
Published: March 13, 2002
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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Art
The Best Things In Life Aren't Free
Figuring out how to finance the future of art at SooVAC
Michael Fallon
Published: February 13, 2002
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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Arts Feature
High-Fiber Diet
Ingrid Aubol sews handmade papers into the fabric of her life
Michael Fallon
Published: November 28, 2001
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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Arts Feature
En Gaard
Cartoonist and portraitist Frank Gaard has faced off against the anti-defamation league, art-school administration, and his landlord and remains a defiantly good artist
Michael Fallon
Published: October 31, 2001
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....
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