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Before the Teardown Mill City Museum Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., August 31 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With all due respect to the crop of sleek, soaring skyscrapers clumped in downtown Minneapolis, there were some pretty cool buildings around downtown before the rise of glass and steel constructions. In 1960, the Star Tribune realized that the stone and brick buildings that had filled the... More >>
Mike Elko; Ruthann Godollei: Unconventional Wisdom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., October 26 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >>
Design For the Other 90% Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Daily from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7 Suburbs
According to the press release for this show, 90 percent of the world's population, or 5.8 billion people, have no access (or sparse access) to products and services we take for granted. And while internet service and hearing-aid batteries are among the luxuries included in this list, the lack... More >>
Friedlander Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sun., June 29 until Sun., September 14 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Currently, Father Duffy's ornate grave and statue cower under the neon command of a Coke advertisement. The once-marvelous monument to a man has been reduced to an obstruction blocking sightlines to an array of billboards and soaring buildings. That's the scene in one of photographer Lee... More >>
Richard Prince: Spiritual America Walker Art Center Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 14 until Sun., September 14 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Can an artist simultaneously celebrate and critique pop culture? Those familiar with the incredibly varied work of Richard Prince have seen appropriation, pop culture, and cultural criticism battle it out over the span of his 30-year career. His medium of expression varies greatly, from... More >>
Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., August 2 until Sun., September 21 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >>
From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2 St. Paul (Greater)
All the cool kids might think their Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars are just hip canvas shoes. Ditto for Technicolor Nike Air Force Ones. But to the well-trained designer's eye, these kicks mark a significant departure in our fashion history: the idea that clothes designed to be worn for sports... More >>
Hindsight is Always 20/20 Weisman Art Museum Theatre Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4 Minneapolis (Downtown)
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>
Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12 Minneapolis (Downtown)
At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >>
The Lost Empire: Photographer to the Tsar The Museum Of Russian Art Daily from Mon., May 5 until Wed., October 1 Minneapolis (South)
If there is one thing to be said about Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, it's that he was ambitious. He was a chemist and photographer who merged his passions by designing a camera and method to view black-and-white negatives in color. At the beginning of the 20th century, he took... More >>
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Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., May 3 until Sun., September 7 Minneapolis (Downtown)
From Mill To Museum Opening Ceremony Mill City Museum Thu., September 11, 6:00pm-8:30pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
Mill City Museum 5th Anniversary Mill City Museum Sat., September 13, 1:00pm-4:00pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
Susan Saarinen Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Sun., September 14, 2:00pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
Mill City Oktoberfest Mill City Museum Sat., September 20, 8:00am-2:00pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
Hmong at Heart Minnesota Children's Museum Daily from Sat., October 4 until Mon., January 19 St. Paul (Downtown)
Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., January 25 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Art of the Wild: An Exhibit Featuring Minnesota’s Federal Duck Stamp Artists Bell Museum Of Natural History Daily from Tue., October 7 until Wed., January 7 Minneapolis (Downtown)
CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4 St. Paul (Downtown)
Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Beyond the Maker’s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sun., October 19 until Sun., April 19 Minneapolis (Downtown)
INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces--Contemporary Photography and Video Art Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Strange Ornament from the Renaissance Mind Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., May 3 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Steven Kazlowski Bell Museum Of Natural History Thu., November 13, 7:00pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
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