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Dec 10, 2010
Swimming Out
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford reflects on SWIM, a new poetry-film project by writer Jen March and filmmaker Peter Hogan, who've recently formed a collaborative production outfit for more such creations, called Co-Kisser.
Swimming Out
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford reflects on SWIM, a new poetry-film project by writer Jen March and filmmaker Peter Hogan, who've recently formed a collaborative production outfit for more such creations, called Co-Kisser.
Dec 10, 2010
Vasili Nechitailo - Russia's Mid-Century Master Craftsman
Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant muses on the extensive retrospective of paintings by mid-20th century master Vasili Nechitailo, on view at the Museum of Russian Art, and on an alien art historical track running parallel to that with which we're familiar in the West.
Vasili Nechitailo - Russia's Mid-Century Master Craftsman
Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant muses on the extensive retrospective of paintings by mid-20th century master Vasili Nechitailo, on view at the Museum of Russian Art, and on an alien art historical track running parallel to that with which we're familiar in the West.
Dec 8, 2010
Reconsidering the MCAD/Jerome Fellowship Exhibition
Diane Mullin
Diane Mullin, associate curator at the Weisman and former MCAD/Jerome Fellowship director, makes the case for rethinking how fellows' work is presented, calling into question the continued relevance of the traditional model of annual exhibitions.
Reconsidering the MCAD/Jerome Fellowship Exhibition
Diane Mullin
Diane Mullin, associate curator at the Weisman and former MCAD/Jerome Fellowship director, makes the case for rethinking how fellows' work is presented, calling into question the continued relevance of the traditional model of annual exhibitions.
Dec 3, 2010
Some Thoughts on the 2010 Choreographers' Evening
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst reflects on the Walker's 2010 dance showcase, curated by Susana di Palma. Amid the bright spots and crowd-pleasing moments, she found herself wanting more -- more daring, more innovation, more virtuosity -- from the night's performances.
Some Thoughts on the 2010 Choreographers' Evening
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst reflects on the Walker's 2010 dance showcase, curated by Susana di Palma. Amid the bright spots and crowd-pleasing moments, she found herself wanting more -- more daring, more innovation, more virtuosity -- from the night's performances.
Dec 2, 2010
Of Pastries and Paintings: Northeast Minneapolis
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford continues her ongoing artists' guide to coffee house galleries and alternative art exhibition venues in Minnesota with this tour of notable hotspots in the arts-rich neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis.
Of Pastries and Paintings: Northeast Minneapolis
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford continues her ongoing artists' guide to coffee house galleries and alternative art exhibition venues in Minnesota with this tour of notable hotspots in the arts-rich neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis.
Dec 2, 2010
Dance Without Reservation
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst saw Zenon's ambitious fall season performance recently, and she came away wowed - by the dancers' passionate performances, by the moving choreography, and by the company's sheer voltage on stage.
Dance Without Reservation
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst saw Zenon's ambitious fall season performance recently, and she came away wowed - by the dancers' passionate performances, by the moving choreography, and by the company's sheer voltage on stage.
Nov 22, 2010
Sincerity on the Page
Alison Morse
Alison Morse reflects on John Reimringer's debut novel, VESTMENTS, just released from Milkweed Editions -- a quiet tale of a St. Paul priest whose faith is challenged by desire, animated by its utter sincerity and fidelity to character and place.
Sincerity on the Page
Alison Morse
Alison Morse reflects on John Reimringer's debut novel, VESTMENTS, just released from Milkweed Editions -- a quiet tale of a St. Paul priest whose faith is challenged by desire, animated by its utter sincerity and fidelity to character and place.
Nov 22, 2010
A Story to Tell - Emily Johnson/Catalyst + BLACKFISH
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre reflects on the unusually collaborative, evocative performance by Catalyst Dance and the musical duo James Everest and Joel Pickard (BLACKFISH) - "The Thank-You Bar" - on stage at Northrop recently.
A Story to Tell - Emily Johnson/Catalyst + BLACKFISH
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre reflects on the unusually collaborative, evocative performance by Catalyst Dance and the musical duo James Everest and Joel Pickard (BLACKFISH) - "The Thank-You Bar" - on stage at Northrop recently.
Nov 18, 2010
OPEN, a homegrown pandrogynous love story
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker Jake Yuzna’s path to winning the Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Jury Award this year reveals a deep debt to Twin Cities support from organizations both upstanding and underground.
OPEN, a homegrown pandrogynous love story
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker Jake Yuzna’s path to winning the Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Jury Award this year reveals a deep debt to Twin Cities support from organizations both upstanding and underground.
Nov 11, 2010
City Bumpkin
Jeremy Walker
For his third essay in the series on jazz, co-presented by mnartists.org and the Walker, Jeremy Walker muses on bumpkins and sophisticates, and makes a case for seeking out a little adventure with tips on where to find great live shows in the Twin Cities.
City Bumpkin
Jeremy Walker
For his third essay in the series on jazz, co-presented by mnartists.org and the Walker, Jeremy Walker muses on bumpkins and sophisticates, and makes a case for seeking out a little adventure with tips on where to find great live shows in the Twin Cities.
Nov 10, 2010
Will Dinski Takes On Tinseltown
Britt Aamodt
Will Dinski's debut graphic novel, "Fingerprints," just released from Top Shelf Productions, offers a biting, perceptive satire on the seedy side of Hollywood - from "perfection" gone haywire to the public fascination with celebrity culture.
Will Dinski Takes On Tinseltown
Britt Aamodt
Will Dinski's debut graphic novel, "Fingerprints," just released from Top Shelf Productions, offers a biting, perceptive satire on the seedy side of Hollywood - from "perfection" gone haywire to the public fascination with celebrity culture.
Nov 4, 2010
The 2010 Asian Film Festival
Max Sparber
Max Sparber previews some of the offerings at this year's Minneapolis/St. Paul Asian Film Festival, presented by the Mpls/St. Paul Film Society at St. Anthony Main Theatre from November 3 - 13.
The 2010 Asian Film Festival
Max Sparber
Max Sparber previews some of the offerings at this year's Minneapolis/St. Paul Asian Film Festival, presented by the Mpls/St. Paul Film Society at St. Anthony Main Theatre from November 3 - 13.
Nov 3, 2010
Allen Ginsberg and the Quiet Librarian
Courtney Gerber
Terrence Williams, a volunteer tour guide at the Walker Art Center, remembers his lifelong friendship with the legendary Beat poet in a conversation with writer Courtney Gerber.
Allen Ginsberg and the Quiet Librarian
Courtney Gerber
Terrence Williams, a volunteer tour guide at the Walker Art Center, remembers his lifelong friendship with the legendary Beat poet in a conversation with writer Courtney Gerber.
Oct 28, 2010
Dancing on Ballet's Living Edges
Lightsey Darst
Dance critic Lightsey Darst weighs in on two recent ballet performances - Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM's "Dark Matters" at the Walker, and Minnesota Dance Theatre's ambitious, two-weekend fall dance festival, "Enduring Prescience."
Dancing on Ballet's Living Edges
Lightsey Darst
Dance critic Lightsey Darst weighs in on two recent ballet performances - Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM's "Dark Matters" at the Walker, and Minnesota Dance Theatre's ambitious, two-weekend fall dance festival, "Enduring Prescience."
Oct 27, 2010
Alec Soth: The Loneliest Man in Minnesota?
Frank Bures
Writer Frank Bures reflects on the Walker's new retrospective of work by Twin Cities-based photographer Alec Soth, and on the artist's resonant depiction of a "pervasive, long in coming, and widespread" emptiness at the heart of our culture.
Alec Soth: The Loneliest Man in Minnesota?
Frank Bures
Writer Frank Bures reflects on the Walker's new retrospective of work by Twin Cities-based photographer Alec Soth, and on the artist's resonant depiction of a "pervasive, long in coming, and widespread" emptiness at the heart of our culture.
Oct 22, 2010
mnLIT presents: 2010 miniStories grand prize-winner, Hillary Wentworth
Hillary Wentworth
Read Hillary Wentworth's victorious flash fiction, "146.9 Volts," selected as the 2010 miniStories grand prize-winning submission by our full panel of fiction jurors: Alexander Chee, Daniel Handler, Heather McElhatton, Kevin Larimer, and Dennis Cass.
mnLIT presents: 2010 miniStories grand prize-winner, Hillary Wentworth
Hillary Wentworth
Read Hillary Wentworth's victorious flash fiction, "146.9 Volts," selected as the 2010 miniStories grand prize-winning submission by our full panel of fiction jurors: Alexander Chee, Daniel Handler, Heather McElhatton, Kevin Larimer, and Dennis Cass.
Oct 13, 2010
Inside the Producer's Art
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker and writer Marsha Trainer profiles producer Christine Walker (HOWL, LIFE DURING WARTIME), co-founder of the Mpls-based film production company WercWerkWorks, to get to the heart of the question, "What does a film producer actually do?"
Inside the Producer's Art
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker and writer Marsha Trainer profiles producer Christine Walker (HOWL, LIFE DURING WARTIME), co-founder of the Mpls-based film production company WercWerkWorks, to get to the heart of the question, "What does a film producer actually do?"
Oct 13, 2010
Finding Joe Smith
Alison Morse
Writer Alison Morse sets out to unpack Joe Smith's beguiling, mysterious objects to get a sense for the elusive artist himself, whose work is on view in the Soap Factory's biannual survey of Minnesota artists, "A Theory of Values," through October 24.
Finding Joe Smith
Alison Morse
Writer Alison Morse sets out to unpack Joe Smith's beguiling, mysterious objects to get a sense for the elusive artist himself, whose work is on view in the Soap Factory's biannual survey of Minnesota artists, "A Theory of Values," through October 24.
Oct 8, 2010
The Ear is the Place, Man
Jeremy Walker
For a second essay in his new series on jazz, co-presented by mnartists.org and the Walker Art Center, musician and writer Jeremy Walker argues in defense of the idiosyncratic, ever-shifting, individual listener's ear.
The Ear is the Place, Man
Jeremy Walker
For a second essay in his new series on jazz, co-presented by mnartists.org and the Walker Art Center, musician and writer Jeremy Walker argues in defense of the idiosyncratic, ever-shifting, individual listener's ear.
Sep 30, 2010
Of Pastries and Paintings: Downtown/Lowertown St. Paul
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford continues her neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to coffee house galleries and various and sundry other alternative art exhibition spaces in MN with this artists' guide to venues in St. Paul's Lowertown/Downtown area.
Of Pastries and Paintings: Downtown/Lowertown St. Paul
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford continues her neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to coffee house galleries and various and sundry other alternative art exhibition spaces in MN with this artists' guide to venues in St. Paul's Lowertown/Downtown area.
Sep 30, 2010
What's Missing from the Iveys
Max Sparber
Playwright Max Sparber muses on the annual pomp and ritual of the Ivey Awards. Specifically, with all due props to the local talent recognized by the Iveys, he wonders who gets left out of the running altogether and what it really means to new theater.
What's Missing from the Iveys
Max Sparber
Playwright Max Sparber muses on the annual pomp and ritual of the Ivey Awards. Specifically, with all due props to the local talent recognized by the Iveys, he wonders who gets left out of the running altogether and what it really means to new theater.
Sep 23, 2010
4-D Glasses
Ann Klefstad
Ann Klefstad has spent hours pondering Julie Buffalohead's paintings, on view now at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis; read on for her take on the artist's new work, whose playful charm disguises a keen, sometimes dark eye for cultural observation.
4-D Glasses
Ann Klefstad
Ann Klefstad has spent hours pondering Julie Buffalohead's paintings, on view now at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis; read on for her take on the artist's new work, whose playful charm disguises a keen, sometimes dark eye for cultural observation.
Sep 14, 2010
To Learn By Rote and Remember By Heart
Connie Wanek
Poet Connie Wanek reviews a new story collection by Duluth-based author Linda LeGarde Grover, THE DANCE BOOTS, which recently earned her the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.
To Learn By Rote and Remember By Heart
Connie Wanek
Poet Connie Wanek reviews a new story collection by Duluth-based author Linda LeGarde Grover, THE DANCE BOOTS, which recently earned her the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.
Sep 8, 2010
Storytelling by Design in a Digital Age
Marsha Trainer
Marsha Trainer chats with Martha Stewart Living Omni, Inc. chief creative & editorial director Gael Towey and her husband, acclaimed designer Stephen Doyle. Both will be at the W Hotel - Foshay on September 9 as part of the "Design Conversations" series.
Storytelling by Design in a Digital Age
Marsha Trainer
Marsha Trainer chats with Martha Stewart Living Omni, Inc. chief creative & editorial director Gael Towey and her husband, acclaimed designer Stephen Doyle. Both will be at the W Hotel - Foshay on September 9 as part of the "Design Conversations" series.
Sep 8, 2010
Jazz is a Bastard
Jeremy Walker
Walker Art Center and mnartists.org are teaming up with composer & pianist Jeremy Walker (Jazz is NOW, Small City Trio) to present a monthly series of essays on jazz as an industry, as a cultural phenomenon, and as a lived art.
Jazz is a Bastard
Jeremy Walker
Walker Art Center and mnartists.org are teaming up with composer & pianist Jeremy Walker (Jazz is NOW, Small City Trio) to present a monthly series of essays on jazz as an industry, as a cultural phenomenon, and as a lived art.
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