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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.

'Here We Are': What would Philip Roth have made of all this?

'Here We Are': What would Philip Roth have made of all this?

Benjamin Taylor, one of Roth's closest friends during the last decades of his life, has written a memoir that rekindles Roth's voice: brilliant, profane, and so very funny.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Remembering the lost village of Chippewa City

North of Grand Marais along Highway 61, a white clapboard church stands as one of the only reminders of what was once a small community called Chippewa City.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'Funny Weather' asks what art can do in a crisis

'Funny Weather' asks what art can do in a crisis

At her best, Olivia Laing turns criticism into an elevated form of hospitality: Like a good party host, she introduces you to someone, tells you what she likes about them, then leaves you to it.
by Annalisa Quinn

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Coronavirus concerns lead to a homegrown SPCO 2020-21 season 

Coronavirus concerns lead to a homegrown SPCO 2020-21 season 

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will mount next season without guest artists and artistic partners due to financial and safety concerns.
by Euan Kerr

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Artists paint a portrait of a pandemic

Artists paint a portrait of a pandemic

The United Nations and Amplifier, an arts group, called on artists to create inspiring and informative posters, graphics and animations around the coronavirus. Here's a selection of submissions.
by Pranav Baskar

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Jerry Stiller, comedian and 'Seinfeld' actor, dies at 92

Jerry Stiller, comedian and 'Seinfeld' actor, dies at 92

The comedy veteran, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on "Seinfeld," died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son — a comedy star himself — said in a tweet.
by The Associated Press

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