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Feeling Minnesota: "Speaking of Place"

Camille LeFevre — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Camille LeFevre addresses the "critical regionalism" in Minnesota architecture -- building design marked less by a common style than by its "material, formal restraint, attention to craftsmanship and horizontality" in honor of our prairie landscapes.

mnLIT presents: Alison Morse

Alison Morse — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

This week's miniStories winner, "The Apartment" by Alison Morse, was selected by novelist David Oppegaard for the 2009 cycle of mnLIT.

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

Building Bridges to Make "One Nation"

Eva Apelqvist — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Writer Eva Apelqvist previews the upcoming performance of selections from Kevin McMullin's "One Nation" - a symphonic marriage of orchestral music, by Minnesota Youth Symphonies, and the Native American drum songs of the Pipestone group.

image: Kevin McMullin

image: Minnesota Youth Symphonies

image: Northern Wisconsin drum group, Pipestone

image: The Pipestone drum group with orchestra

Feeling Minnesota: "Art in an Outpost"

Andy Sturdevant — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Andy Sturdevant offers his thoughts on what makes for a Minnesota tradition in the visual arts, arguing that the distinguishing characteristics of art made here are inextricably linked to an "outpost" ethos.

The Big Reveal

Lightsey Darst — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Lightsey Darst talks about the art of the striptease with two of the performers behind the crowd-pleasing Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival, on stage at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis January 28-30.

image: Live shot from "The Underpants Show" by Lili's Burlesque Revue

image: The Chicago Starlets -- guest performers at this year's Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival

image: Gina Louise

Feeling Minnesota: "The Missing Minnesota Mythos"

Marya Hornbacher — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Writer Marya Hornbacher muses on the "Minnesota mythos" and its influence on local theater: "It's what we tell ourselves about who we are, as a body of people, as a community, and by extrapolation, as individuals. It becomes how we perform ourselves."

Inside the Cabinet of Wonders

Andy Sturdevant — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

An engaging essay by Andy Sturdevant on the perennial lure of strange and beautiful objects, written in honor of mnartists.org's inaugural ARTmn exhibition, "The Precious Object", which opens September 18 at the Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis.

image: ARTmn: "The Precious Object" (September 18 - January 3, 2010)

image: Beth Barron, "Message of Emptiness" (2008)

image: James F. Cleary, "Lausketeer (Dampfboot Willi)" (2009)

image: Andy Ducett, "It Could Have Happened Yesterday or it Could have Happened Today", detail (2009)

image: Alison Hiltner, "Mimicry" (2009)

image: Ginny Maki, "54847" from the "Small Towns Project," detail (2008)

image: Paula McCartney, ""Break Up #5" (2008)

image: Margaret Wall Romana, "Painting Painting" (with van der Weyden) (2009)

image: Joan Oas Iron Moccasin, "Woman of the House" (2009)

image: Liz Miller, "Techno Deluge" (partial view) (2008)

image: Sam Spiczka, "Mercury" (2009)

image: Karl Unnasch, "Made in the USA" (2009)

image: Kristin Van Dorn, "Phase I" (2008)

image: Erik Waterkotte, "To Grant a Lacking Status/From Those About to Disappear" (2008)

image: Michon Weeks, "Mississippi" (2009)

Episode 26, Some Assembly Required

Jon Nelson — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Some Assembly Required is a weekly focus on sample based music and audio art. Host Jon Nelson explores the world of sound collage via this weekly podcast of his nationally syndicated radio program.

Episode 26, Some Assembly Required

Jon Nelson — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Some Assembly Required is a weekly focus on sample based music and audio art. Host Jon Nelson explores the world of sound collage via this weekly podcast of his nationally syndicated radio program.

access+ENGAGE Issue 49.2: Art in an Outpost

aE 49.2: Art in an Outpost — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Highlights include several new essays on regionalism in the arts in our "Feeling Minnesota" series, a preview of the Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival, a review of "Call Cutta in a Box", and the AOT Tuesday Night music series

image: Banner artist, Kari Maxwell

image: One for the Road: "Seven Meals" by Rachel Breen

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