This Saturday, Cult Status Gallery will host its yearly group show featuring the work of a handful of talented ladies. And while the creative folks exhibiting in "Cult Sisters III Love/Hate" are all female, the gallery is quick to point out that the event isn't necessarily a women's art show.... More >>

What do burlesque and dusty old museums have in common? Not much, unless you hit up the Historic Mounds Theatre for Burlesque at the Museum. Here, the extraordinary entertainers of Toil & Trouble will present their second show of the season. Think of it a little like Night at the Museum sans... More >>

Classroom drawing sessions are important for beginners; studio and freelance work help pay the bills; and setting up an easel by the lake is a nice way to spend an afternoon. Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is a slightly different experience from all of these things. Every fourth Sunday... More >>

Once again, the Science Museum of Minnesota is inviting its guests to enjoy the great outdoors with "The Big Back Yard." This year's exhibit will explore the delicate relationship between land and water. The nine-hole EarthScapes mini-golf course will examine what happens as landscapes erode... More >>

Light Grey Art Lab's latest show, "Street Fortune," explores the people and places in the Twin Cities often overlooked or avoided. Think hobos, buskers, drug dealers, and shady cops in locations like alleys, dive bars, Dumpsters, and gutters. The collaborative exhibition features the work of... More >>

If the windows on Dylan Hicks's debut novel, Boarded Windows (Coffee House Press), are indeed boarded, it's because the high- and low-brow music, literary, and cultural notes that fill its pages are straining against the glass. But the thicket of references is not so daunting as to make the... More >>

This Friday, print art enthusiasts will be able to see what the Highpoint Center for Printmaking's three Jerome Artists — Gwen Comings, Graham Judd, and Jonathan McFadden — have been up to during their nine-month residency. During that time, the artists have had the opportunity to... More >>

Ever since Marcel Duchamp turned a urinal upside down, signed it R. Mutt, named it Fountain, and submitted it to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917, interest in the everyday as art has continued unabated. In 2010, the Weisman Art Museum presented "Common Sense: Art and the... More >>

Works Progress is a group that encourages community engagement through artist-run events, open discussions, and adventurous activities. Past projects have included Solutions Twin Cities, a pecha kucha-style event where creative and scientific folks shared innovative ideas in rapid-fire... More >>

With talented artists as varied as Tina Blondell and Frank Gaard working in the genre, it's interesting to see how portrait paintings, once viewed as dated, are flourishing in the Twin Cities. The work of Kristie Bretzke is another example of this expansion. Her latest show, "Eye of the... More >>

For "FLO(we){u}r," the Soap Factory will go from gallery to bomb factory. The experiment plays off a bit of World War I history, when terracotta manufacturers were employed by the military to create test bombs to toss out of planes. Clay bombs were filled with flour so they would leave white... More >>

While Whittier can claim both the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design as parts of its neighborhood, the area is becoming even artier over the next couple of weeks. Taking a nod from Wing Young Huie's University Avenue Project, abandoned spaces and unused... More >>

The work of local artist Alison Hiltner is never dull. Past exhibitions have included an organ-donor vending machine, phosphorescent flora, and business suits that claim to suck up sweat through giant medical tubes attached to the back. Her installations are heavily influenced by science,... More >>

Minneapolis native Michael Crouser creates photographs of evocative light and shadow, rich with tension and tranquility. Whether capturing the feral rough-and-tumble of dogs playing in a park (a series called "Dog Run" that began with a Great Dane at Lake of the Isles), or the craggy faces and... More >>

While there are usually a handful of burlesque shows happening on any given weekend, and Sex World is open 24 hours a day, Bondage A-Go-Go is still one of the most enduring nights dedicated to kinks and sexy subcultures. The crowd can vary depending on the season and the evening, but generally... More >>

"Her silent lines penetrate the marrow like a cry of pain," German novelist Gerhart Hauptmann wrote of Käthe Kollwitz's etchings. The suffering and desperation of early-20th-century victims of poverty and war were the artist's subjects. While she treated them, at times, with evocative... More >>

The new work of Minneapolis artists Katelyn Farstad and David Frohlich moves through space and time, even when it's static. That's the nature of "Ishoyet; Isopleth," their installation of paintings, prints, and kinetic media on a double bill with St. Paul artist Gregory Fitz's "Seven Billion,"... More >>

While some artists attempt to capture the landscapes of places they have traveled to, Margaret Pezalla-Granlund prefers to imagine the terrain of locations that no one has ever visited and probably never will. For her show at the Burnet Gallery at Chambers, she examines the creativity that... More >>

Now that schools throughout the metro are impatiently surrendering to summer, sightings of nattily attired youngsters traversing the Twin Cities in rented limousines have become a fairly common occurrence, signaling the crowning event of the high school social calendar: prom. In idealized... More >>

The who's who performances of the local contemporary dance scene occur monthly at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, where the 9x22 Dance/Lab offers an incubator for new works. Hosted by veteran dance maker Laurie Van Wieren, the evening invites dancers and choreographers to congregate and give feedback on... More >>

A year ago, artists working in St. Paul's Lowertown launched Lowertown First Fridays, building upon the momentum of the Lowertown Spring and Fall Art Crawls. This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the monthly event, and in celebration Artists of Lowertown, in conjunction with the St.... More >>

Now that the weather is more manageable, we can begin to look forward to all the outdoor art fairs that sunny skies allow. However, these happenings can be a bummer when it gets a little too crowded to enjoy, and often the artists aren't local. This should never be a problem at First Thursdays.... More >>

Painter Dale Johnson has been teaching at Bethel University for 40 years while developing an oeuvre of figurative, landscape, and abstract paintings celebrated for their vibrant colors; loose, evocative brushstrokes; and bold lines. "Drawing into Painting" includes a selection of such works, as... More >>