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Woman as Photographer: Picturing Life as a Woman

This show opening at the Mpls. Photo Center showcases photographs taken from the female perspective.

March 2011

by Stephanie Xenos

Not So Funny Pages

Not So Funny Pages

Not-So-Funny Pages, an MCAD show, features a new generation of comic artists who are striving for something much deeper than laughs.

April 2009

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead

SLIDESHOW

Conceptual art has received more than its share of derision in the past forty years. In The Quick and the Dead—an ambitious exhibition of ninety works by fifty international artists—the Walker is attempting to reclaim some respect for artists who choose to travel down the conceptual path.

March 19, 2009

Ring-toss booth at MN State Fair, 1974

Native Son

Tom Arndt's photographic "homage" to Minnesota tells stories about his beloved native soil.

March 2009

River Scene by Maxime Lalanne

History Redrawn

You’ve heard of Dali, Renoir, and da Vinci, but the MIA’s latest exhibit features the work of artists to whom time has not been so kind.
Through Apr. 5. Minneapolis Institute of Arts

January 2009

Chris Mars slideshow

Tolerance

SLIDESHOW

Chris Mars made a name for himself as the drummer of the seminal 1980s band The Replacements, but his true calling involves a different kind of brush.

December 10, 2008

Mpls Photo Center founder Orin Rutchick

Photo Op

Photographer Orin Rutchick’s Mpls Photo Center focuses on local photography and aims to “support people through the trajectory of learning.”

December 2008

Museums + Galleries: India Exposed

India Exposed

MIA's major exhibition of Indian photography and video examines India’s paradoxes in the age of globalization. Through Jan. 18.

November 2008

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces: Artist Making Local Call

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces

SLIDESHOW

We get an inside peek at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’s first foray into contemporary Indian art, INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces. Oct. 19-Jan. 11.

October 15, 2008

Tom Sareceno's High Flying Art

High-Flying Art

Tomas Saraceno’s latest project combines one of the most reviled byproducts of modernity with a reminder of the human proclivity to adapt.

October 2008

No Longer There by Jody Williams

Disorderly Details

A sneak peek at the work of two great Minneapolis artists, Fay Passow and Jody Williams.

October 1, 2008

Altered Esthetics

The Revolution will not be Televised

Get a sneak peek at the new gallery hosted by Altered Esthetics, which presents thought provoking artwork in response to global and socio-political topics.

July 22, 2008

American Original

The boundlessness of American aspiration comes to life in Lee Friedlander’s photography.

July 2008

Friedlander: Photography

Friedlander: Photography

Catch the largest comprehensive retrospective ever of influential American photographer  Lee Friedlander's work. This exhibit, originally organized by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York, is  at the MIA.

George Slade

Slade Show

George Slade’s “jack-of-many-institutions” approach has placed him in the center of the local photography boom.

June 2008

Russian women harvesting tea

Lost and Found

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographs provide a rare glimpse into the past of a lost empire.

June 2008

Space Race

Space Race

Where do you go to see TIE fighters, Wookies and Jedi masters? The Science Museum, of course!

June 2008

Lake Seliger, Ostashkov

The Lost Empire: Photographer to the TSAR

In the early 1900s, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was hired by Tsar Nicholas II to conduct an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire. See his work at The Museum of Russian Art.

Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for The New Yorker, talks about art, being an aesthete, and the MIA.

May 2008

Fashioned

Looking Good

Fashioned, a new show at the Minnesota Center for Photography, isn't about fashion per se but how appearances speak to and clash with identity.

May 2008

fashioned

Fashioned

SLIDESHOW

Fashioned is an exploration of the various ways in which identity and persona are “fashioned” through clothes, tattoos, and other personal effects. The exhibit—featuring the work of six photographers—runs May 3–July 13 at the Minnesota Center for Photography.




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