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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.

Royal wedding ceremony weds cultures

Royal wedding ceremony weds cultures

With a gospel choir, black cellist and bishop, Oprah, Serena and Idris Elba in the audience and an African-American mother-of-the-bride, Saturday's wedding of Prince Harry to American actress Meghan Markle was a blend of the solemn and the soulful.
by Associated Press

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wed in Windsor as millions watch

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wed in Windsor as millions watch

The American actress arrived to a fanfare and walked down the aisle accompanied part of the way by Prince Charles, and by 10 young page boys and bridesmaids.

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Royal wedding guests pour into Windsor Castle

Royal wedding guests pour into Windsor Castle

Oprah Winfrey, Idris Elba, Elton John, George and Amal Clooney and David and Victoria Beckham were among the first guests to arrive at Windsor Castle for the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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The vast and violent rural Northwest, in 'Come West And See'

The vast and violent rural Northwest, in 'Come West And See'

Maxim Loskutoff's collection of short stories picks at the tensions between city and country among everyday Westerners -- who find themselves living among heavily-armed separatist militias.
by Ari Shapiro

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The string quartet as chosen family in 'The Ensemble'

The string quartet as chosen family in 'The Ensemble'

In her debut novel, former cellist Aja Gabel follows four musicians as they come together and entertain ambitions to strike out on their own -- on and off stage.

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'A good, old-fashioned page turner' from Jennifer Egan

'A good, old-fashioned page turner' from Jennifer Egan

Bookseller Linda Kass says you "always learn something in a Jennifer Egan novel." In Egan's latest, the subjects range from searching for bodies underwater to running a nightclub.
by Tracy Mumford

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