Minneapolis-based painters Joe Smith and Ruben Nusz sit down for a far-ranging conversation, about self-help and primal gestures, blankets and childhood, making and seeing things in the unfixed, unnamed moment before language.
Writer Sheila Regan reviews Nina Canell’s exhibition, “Stray Warmings,” at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis through April 6.
In the final installment of a three-part series examining the health of the Twin Cities visual arts culture, Nathaniel Smith offers some theories on encouraging more local arts criticism and a culture of collectors as well as a few ways we all can help the arts this year.
Mnartists.org’s Sarah Howard reports on how two new Twin Cities initiatives – the Starling Project and Artists in Storefronts – are re-imagining uses for empty commercial spaces.




