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MPR News has you covered with news and stories about local art and culture happenings across Minnesota.

Art Hounds: Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what's exciting in local art. You can explore arts events here, or become an Art Hound today.

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Art Friend: Everyone needs an art friend. Art Friend is a new segment with our arts team. Art spaces can feel exclusive and art can be confusing, obtuse, and even boring. But, especially with the right context, everyone can be a critic. So let us be your guide- your Art Friend. Listen or read Art Friend stories here.

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A cultural triumph: Microbiology student makes a petri dish masterpiece

A cultural triumph: Microbiology student makes a petri dish masterpiece

Balaram Khamari has been spending a lot of time in his lab, culturing colorful bacteria and artfully arranging it on a jelly-like substance called agar. He is part of a growing body of scientists across the world who make agar art, and even compete for prizes.
by Sarah McCammon

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'The Tree In Me' is a blooming good spring read

'The Tree In Me' is a blooming good spring read

As spring finally gets springing, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles recommends “The Tree in Me,” a pink-splashed, exuberant celebration of kids enjoying nature.
by Juanita Giles

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Ask a Bookseller: Part memoir, part home redecorating saga

Ask a Bookseller: Part memoir, part home redecorating saga

The book Sandy Koropp of Prairie Path Books in Wheaton, Ill., is "crazy about right now" is part memoir, part home redecorating saga.
by Emily Bright

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How Black players propelled Cleveland's baseball team to win the 1948 World Series

How Black players propelled Cleveland's baseball team to win the 1948 World Series

In 1948, Cleveland's baseball team won the World Series. It wouldn't have made it without the team's first two Black players, and the team owner's willingness to hire them, says author Luke Epplin.
by Scott Simon

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Children's author Beverly Cleary, creator of Ramona Quimby, dies at 104

Children's author Beverly Cleary, creator of Ramona Quimby, dies at 104

Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died at age 104.
by Zoe Chace and The Associated Press

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry dies at 84

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry dies at 84

Larry McMurtry penned books and screenplays during a career that spanned over half a century, often depicting the American West. He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for “Lonesome Dove,” the tale of a cattle drive during the 1870s. 
by The Associated Press

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U.S. court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art

U.S. court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art

A U.S. appeals court sided with a photographer Friday in her copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series of Andy Warhol works of art based on her pictures of Prince.
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Dinner theater drops 'Cinderella' with mostly white cast

A suburban Minneapolis dinner theater has scrapped plans for a production of “Cinderella” because the cast was mostly white and it didn’t fit with its efforts to become more diverse. Instead of putting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres will make its next production “Footloose.”
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