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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.

Our arts coverage is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Georgia teachers' back-to-school rap about virtual learning goes viral

Georgia teachers' back-to-school rap about virtual learning goes viral

Callie Evans and Audri Williams rap about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic from the empty halls of Monroe Comprehensive High School, backed up by mask-wearing, move-busting cheerleaders.
by Rachel Treisman

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Mpls. theater — home to nonbinary artists — to close after 15 years

Mpls. theater — home to nonbinary artists — to close after 15 years

Over the past fourteen years, 20% Theatre Company has provided a home for transgender and gender nonconforming artists to create and perform new work. Artists say it’s changed the Twin Cities theater scene in the process.
by Marianne Combs

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'Fallout' tells the story of the journalist who exposed the 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'

Lesley M.M. Blume's new book tells the story of John Hersey, the young journalist whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons.
by Dave Davies

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'Veritas' asks how a respected scholar could be duped by a bumbling fraudster

'Veritas' asks how a respected scholar could be duped by a bumbling fraudster

Author Ariel Sabar explores the lives of Harvard's Karen King and of Walter Fritz, the porn producer who convinced her the papyrus fragment he gave her — "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife" — was genuine.
by Tom Gjelten

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'Black Bottom Saints' is a gorgeous swirl of fiction, history and Detroit motor oil

'Black Bottom Saints' is a gorgeous swirl of fiction, history and Detroit motor oil

Alice Randall's innovative new novel chronicles the history of Black Detroit beyond Motown, and features a cast of real life artists, doctors, sports figures, activists and movers and shakers.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Elections panel staff: Keep Kanye West off Wisconsin ballot

Elections panel staff: Keep Kanye West off Wisconsin ballot

Staff for the Wisconsin Elections Commission determined Tuesday that West and running mate Michelle Tidball missed a 5 p.m. deadline on Aug. 5, the last day for independent presidential candidates to submit the required 2,000 signatures of Wisconsin voters to get on the ballot.
by The Associated Press

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The Thread: Three books to read during the Democratic National Convention

The Thread: Three books to read during the Democratic National Convention

For the next two weeks, political junkies will be consumed with the pandemic-adjusted happenings of Democrats and Republicans at their respective conventions. Kerri Miller brings us must-read fiction and nonfiction for the political junkie in all of us.
by Kerri Miller

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Kanye West submits Minnesota ballot petition

Kanye West submits Minnesota ballot petition

Kanye West’s petition is subject to review but he’d be one of several third-party or independent candidates for president on Minnesota’s ballot, which could make the difference in a close race.
by Brian Bakst

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Can women break the ‘glass ceiling’ in a ‘man’s world’? Or is that the wrong question?

Can women break the ‘glass ceiling’ in a ‘man’s world’? Or is that the wrong question?

During the month of August, MPR News host Kerri Miller is exploring what it means to be a woman in America. This week, we turn to Democratic political advisor and author Jennifer Palmieri about feminism and her new book, “She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World.”
by Kerri Miller and Breann Schossow

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3 'Ellen DeGeneres' producers out after misconduct accusations

3 'Ellen DeGeneres' producers out after misconduct accusations

Three of the daytime talk show's top producers have "parted ways" with “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” after they were accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by dozens of former staffers.
by Anastasia Tsioulcas

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