Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Food + DiningMpls.St.Paul Magazine Shopping + StyleMpls.St.Paul Magazine Arts + EntertainmentMpls.St.Paul Magazine Parties and Party PicsMpls.St.Paul Magazine Travel + VisitorsMpls.St.Paul Magazine HomesMpls.St.Paul Magazine HealthMpls.St.Paul Magazine FamilyMpls.St.Paul Magazine Weddings
Arts + Entertainment
Know Your Local Art

Weatherman

Lorelei Club

Lorelei Club

Sculptor Donald Lipski pays homage to a century-old Minnesota women's choral group.

December 2007

Muscle

Muscle

November 2007

Poetry Man

Poetry Man

Known on the street as Poetry Man, Allen Christian’s work is a sculpture in which anyone may make a contribution.

October 2007

Cajibracan

Cajibracan

Cajibracan was created by Peter Morales, whose work is inspired by the monumental Mesoamerican stone sculptures from Guatemala’s pre-Columbian era.

August 2007

Place to Be

Place To Be

Mary Terese Peterson’s Place to Be offers a visual respite among the shops and signs at 38th Street and Grand Avenue in south Minneapolis.

July 2007

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michael Price's statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald stands in Rice Park in downtown St. Paul

June 2007

Ptolgemy's Wedge

Ptolemy's Wedge

On the corner of Nicollet Mall and S. 4th St., the soft, oxidized steel wedge, by New York artist Beverly Pepper, rises thirty feet above the ground, weighs 6,200 pounds, and can withstand winds of up to 100 miles per hour.

May 2007

River Song Windows

River Song Windows

Artist Amy Cordova describes River Song Windows, a series of fourteen step-blasted glass etchings inspired by the Mississippi River.

April 2007

Mammoth Forty-Four-Foot Snowman

Mammoth Forty-Four-Foot Snowman

Back in the seventies, Lloyd Koesling and his North St. Paul neighbors gathered together twenty tons of steel, sand, and stucco to build this mammoth forty-four-foot snowman.

February 2007

Know Your Local Art

Charity Fresco at St. Thomas

On the ceiling in Terrence Murphy Hall on the University of St. Thomas’s Minneapolis campus, seven frescoes illustrate the seven virtues.

January 2007

Common Good Books

Common Good Books

Blair Arcade, at the crossroads of Selby and Western Avenues in St. Paul, is now the home of Common Good Books.

December 2006

Four Stories by Ben Rubin

Four Stories

Four Stories, by New York artist Ben Rubin, illuminates the backside of the elevators in Cesar Pelli’s downtown Minneapolis Public Library with random text drawn from a bibliographic collections database.

November 2006




mspmag.com | Mpls.St.Paul Magazine © 2010 MSP Communications, Inc. All rights reserved