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Tuesday, March 26th


Exchange: A Conversation on Painting with Joe Smith
Joe Smith, Untitled, 2012 Satin, fleece 72 x 54 in. Courtesy of David Petersen Gallery.

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.




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Monday, March 18th


Currents of Memory: “Stray Warmings” at Midway Contemporary Art
Stray Warmings, installation view at Midway Contemporary Art Courtesy the artist and Midway Contemporary Art; photo by Robin Watkins

Writer Sheila Regan reviews Nina Canell’s exhibition, “Stray Warmings,” at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis through April 6.




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Friday, January 11th


Art & Vision: The State of the Arts (Part 3 of 3)
Snake Trainer Taking Snake to the Treadmill by Michael Gaughan

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.




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Wednesday, June 20th


Artgregate: Filling the Void
Storefront window display by Joan Vorderbruggen of Artists in Storefronts / Photo by Steven Lang, courtesy of Artists in Storefronts

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.




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