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A Twist of Intellect

Jennifer Nevitt — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Reads Dylan Hicks

Jay Orff — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Writer Jay Orff reviews Dylan Hicks's new novel, "Boarded Windows," an engaging tangle of competing stories and unreliable narrators with its own soundtrack (the accompanying new album "Sings Bolling Greene"), written by musician and writer Dylan Hicks.

image: "Boarded Windows" by Dylan Hicks (May 2012, Coffee House Press)

image: "Sings Bolling Greene" - the 'soundtrack' of original songs for "Boarded Windows"

The Undance

Lightsey Darst — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

"Dance," says our critic Lightsey Darst, "is not merely specialized movement, but also a way of seeing. Dance is a lens." She takes that dance lens outside the theater to the work-a-day world beyond, offering a guided tour through "the undance."

The View from Crystal Bridges

Camille LeFevre — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Writer Camille LeFevre offers a dispatch from her recent trip down South to Bentonville, Arkansas, reporting back on the recently opened and oft critically dismissed "Walmart art museum," Crystal Bridges.

image: Crystal Bridges

image: One of the museum's building-linking "bridges"

image: A view across the pond

image: On the "Art Trail" outside the museum

image: Photo by Camille LeFevre

image: Photo by Camille LeFevre

image: The "bridges" and galleries, seen from above

image: Looking through the window in one of Crystal Bridges' "reflection rooms"

The Eternal Moment

Carl Atiya Swanson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Carl Atiya Swanson digs into the film "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait" - screening for the MIA's "The Sports Show" through May 13 - and unearths death-defying creativity in the soccer-player's game and in the power of the right shared moment in time.

image: Still from "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait," directed by Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno

image: Still from "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait," directed by Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno

What Surplus Should Taste Like

Jay Orff — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Writer Jay Orff wanders the aisles of Ax-Man Surplus, musing on aesthetic evolutions, beautiful ugliness, creative ironies and the irresistible invitation to put old things to new use.

image: 1980s auto diagnostic machine

image: Heads

image: Pins

image: Signs

image: Ax-Man Surplus - "the anti-Target"

mnLIT presents: 2010 What Light grand prize-winner, Connie Wanek

Connie Wanek — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Read "Polygamy," Connie Wanek's 2010 mnLIT grand prize-winning poem for this year's competition, originally selected by juror Sunshine Glenstone. Stay tuned: A newly commissioned poem by Wanek will be published on mnartists.org next month.

image: mnLIT: What Light Poetry Project and the miniStories flash fiction competition

YOU ARE HEAR: Submission protocols, themes, and deadlines

mnartists.org — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

In January 2012, mnartists.org launched a monthly literary podcast, hosted by writer and comedian Brian Beatty. Read on for submission guidelines and deadlines, a year's worth of show themes, and more information.

image: You Are Hear's host, Brian Beatty

access+ENGAGE Issue 66.1: Common Goods

aE 66.1: Common Goods — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Features include a personal art history of the "meat dress," the Zine Apothecary, reviews of the McKnight Photo Fellows' shows and the dance performances at New Works 4 Weeks, and more

image: "The Director" of the Dept of Public Design

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access+ENGAGE Issue 64.1: Imagined Vistas

aE 64.1: Imagined Vistas — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Highlights include reviews of Zenon Dance Company's spring season and this year's SCUBA Touring Network performances, as well as a new mnLIT flash fiction finalist and the introduction of a weekly blog feature, "Tipsheet"

image: Banner artist Alexa Horochowski, in her leathers at an iron pour

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access+ENGAGE Issue 62.2: Roots and Wings

aE 62.2: Roots and Wings — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Including an essay on jazz by Jeremy Walker, a review of two recent exhibitions at the Minneapolis Photo Center, a haunting poem by mnLIT finalist Colleen Coyne, and a charming primer-cum-tribute to the work of acclaimed artist Kinji Akagawa

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access+ENGAGE Issue 62.1: Experiments and Improvisations

aE 62.1: Experiments and Improvisations — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Highlights include a conversation with saxophonist George Cartwright, reviews of the Best of Midwest Burlesk Festival and a debut poetry collection by Lucille Broderson, essays on Frank Big Bear and the enduring mystique of Swan Lake

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access+ENGAGE Issue 61: The Big Break

aE 61: The Big Break — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Highlights include Andy Sturdevant on Alec Soth's survivalist publication project with/as Lester B. Morrison, Jeremy Walker on the makings of a truly great musician, Sean Smuda's dispatch from this year's Art Basel, and more

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access+ENGAGE Issue 60: Transitions

aE 60: Transitions — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Highlights include: our year-end survey, essays on Russian art and on rethinking the merits of fellowship exhibitions, and more

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KFAI (Minneapolis/St. Paul): Loren Niemi's Ghost

Ampers — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:00:00 GMT

KFAI's quirky story produced by Britt Aamodt on the ghost haunting Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre executive director, Loren Niemi