Visual Arts

Sticks/Stones: New Paintings by Ruben Nusz

Who gets to be American in American art?

Minneapolis graffiti artists create art above the law

Sher, Swatch Team, Broken Crow, and more

Nick Mauss: Perforations

Sher, Swatch Team, Broken Crow, and more

Alec Soth, Kevin Kramp, Robyn, and more: Artists of the year

Influential artists of 2010

Cloud Cult's Scott West paints with rhythm and story

Photo by Cody York​Scott West may be best known for the live paintings he creates during Cloud Cult concerts, but this weekend he has his own solo show at Tarnish & Gold Gallery featuring studio paintings he's been working on since the beginning of 2010. He quit his creative design job in Janu ... More >>

Art of the Native Americans: The Thaw Collection

Photo by Cody York​Scott West may be best known for the live paintings he creates during Cloud Cult concerts, but this weekend he has his own solo show at Tarnish & Gold Gallery featuring studio paintings he's been working on since the beginning of 2010. He quit his creative design job in Janu ... More >>

Student Open House: Street Level

Photo by Cody York​Scott West may be best known for the live paintings he creates during Cloud Cult concerts, but this weekend he has his own solo show at Tarnish & Gold Gallery featuring studio paintings he's been working on since the beginning of 2010. He quit his creative design job in Janu ... More >>

James Chronister: Ceremony

Photo by Cody York​Scott West may be best known for the live paintings he creates during Cloud Cult concerts, but this weekend he has his own solo show at Tarnish & Gold Gallery featuring studio paintings he's been working on since the beginning of 2010. He quit his creative design job in Janu ... More >>

Art fair tripleheader: Our guide to the Uptown, Loring Park, and Powderhorn art fairs

​​ Photo by Sher Stoneman ​Hold on to your seats Minneapolis, because the mother of all art fair weekends is lifting off as we speak. The biggest and probably most well known is the Uptown Art Fair, but that's not all that is in store for art lovers over the next few days. The Loring Par ... More >>

Loring Park Art Festival

​​ Photo by Sher Stoneman ​Hold on to your seats Minneapolis, because the mother of all art fair weekends is lifting off as we speak. The biggest and probably most well known is the Uptown Art Fair, but that's not all that is in store for art lovers over the next few days. The Loring Par ... More >>

Iron Pour

​​ Photo by Sher Stoneman ​Hold on to your seats Minneapolis, because the mother of all art fair weekends is lifting off as we speak. The biggest and probably most well known is the Uptown Art Fair, but that's not all that is in store for art lovers over the next few days. The Loring Par ... More >>

In My Life: The Artwork of John Lennon

​​ Photo by Sher Stoneman ​Hold on to your seats Minneapolis, because the mother of all art fair weekends is lifting off as we speak. The biggest and probably most well known is the Uptown Art Fair, but that's not all that is in store for art lovers over the next few days. The Loring Par ... More >>

Louisa Greenstock: A Woman's Place

​​ Photo by Sher Stoneman ​Hold on to your seats Minneapolis, because the mother of all art fair weekends is lifting off as we speak. The biggest and probably most well known is the Uptown Art Fair, but that's not all that is in store for art lovers over the next few days. The Loring Par ... More >>

Tom Petters killed Polaroid, making way for massive art auction

Famous photographs by Ansel Adams, Chuck Close, William Wegman and David Hockney will be on the block.

Free First Saturday: Super Sculptures

Famous photographs by Ansel Adams, Chuck Close, William Wegman and David Hockney will be on the block.

Freeloader Friday: August 7-9

Free yourself this weekend.

Powderhorn Art Fair

Free yourself this weekend.

Uptown Art Fair

Free yourself this weekend.

The Quick and the Dead

Free yourself this weekend.

Spoon and cherry to be reuinited Friday

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Hot Iron Pour

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Walldogs on Nicollet: Help paint 10 murals in 4 days

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Walldogs on Nicollet

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Fallout Art Fest

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Spoonbridge: It's Art, but Is It Good Art?

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Susan Weinberg: Putting a Face on Family History

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Jennifer Davis & Amy Crickenberger Oeth: News from the Moon

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Christopher Willey: Community

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

Five more great Minnesota funk/R&B tracks

After getting a fresh new coat of red paint, the Walker will plop that sucker right back where it belongs.

A Horse of a Different Color

Politics and aesthetics collide at the Museum of Russian Art

Monkey business

Politics and aesthetics collide at the Museum of Russian Art

Rhapsody In Blue... and Red and Yellow

The Minnesota Museum of American Art paints abstraction in living color

Sign of the Times

Poster designers Seripop have seen the future. And it's fluorescent green.

Word on the Street

Poster designers Seripop have seen the future. And it's fluorescent green.

French Kissing the U.K.

The MIA's new painting show documents how French and British artists swapped style (if not spit). Isn't it romantic?

Purple Mountain Majesties

"American Sublime" looks at the spacious skies and gathering storms of the beautiful landscape painting

The Best Things In Life Aren't Free

Figuring out how to finance the future of art at SooVAC

The Writing on the Wall

Divining the future of a city one mural at a time

Lady of the Portrait

Nearly two decades after Alice Neel's death, her cold-eyed humanism has begun to look revolutionary

Art for Theory's Sake

An abstruse exhibit at the Walker pushes the art of painting out of its gilded frame and into the pages of a textbook

The Outsiders

The woman who turned her house into a canvas, and other stories from the far fringes of the visual-art scene

Get Real

Can a small school of figurative art revive a great, dead tradition in painting?

The More the Merrier

Are the "published" and decorated prints of Edina's Fingerhut Gallery the same as collectible originals? Or are they exceptionally expensive posters?

It's Not Easy Being Green

Many clients can't afford it. Builders are leery of it. When will ecologically sound housing reach the mainstream?

Paint It Black

Absence/Presence searches for the aesthetics of genocide; Thomas Hart Benton hits the road

And Take Your Canvas with You!

A booming real estate market paints an ugly picture for the future of artists and galleries in Northeast Minneapolis

Big Picture

A chat with Robert Hughes

Art From The Inside

A chat with Robert Hughes