Arts and Culture

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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.

May 2, 2018 2:24 PM

Can we still separate the art from the artist?

In April 2018, actor Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault against Andrea Constand, a woman he mentored. Does that mean we can't enjoy watching reruns of the "Cosby Show" or "I Spy" anymore?

by Kerri Miller and Suzanne Pekow

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May 2, 2018 8:55 AM

The forerunner to Alvin and the Chipmunks

Sixty years ago "Witch Doctor" by David Seville was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart.

by MPR News Staff

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May 2, 2018 8:32 AM

It ain't tea, babe: Bob Dylan embraces Tennessee whiskey

The music icon is partnering with a distillery to make whiskey at a 140-year-old Tennessee church and bottle it under the name Heaven's Door.

by The Associated Press

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May 2, 2018 6:55 AM

On 'Adjustment Day,' a quick, horrifying descent into madness

Chuck Palahniuk's new novel is a black-hearted satire that imagines an America in which angry men engineer a purge of everyone who's ever upset them -- and then have to rebuild the country afterwards.

by Jason Sheehan

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May 2, 2018 6:40 AM

Kanye West calls slavery a 'choice'

"When you hear about slavery for 400 years, for 400 years, that sounds like choice," West said on "TMZ Live." "You was there for 400 years, and it's all of y'all?"

by The Associated Press

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May 2, 2018 12:00 AM

'A Lucky Man' challenges masculinity -- with love

Jamel Brinkley's brilliant new story collection is intent on recognizing what masculinity looks like -- but also questioning our expectations of it, and criticizing the ways it can be toxic.

by Ilana Masad