Minnesota Arts

Rocker, writer and teacher: Remembering Laurie Lindeen of Zuzu’s Petals
Laurie Lindeen, the founder and frontwoman of the influential Minneapolis indie rock band Zuzu’s Petals and a beloved teacher and writer, died suddenly from a brain aneurysm at the age of 62 on July 1.
Arts Briefs: Leadership change at Minnesota Orchestra
Arts Briefs: Leadership change at Minnesota Orchestra; Plus: Black grandmothers in White Bear Lake and the Minnesota Dance Theatre and School picks a new program director.
‘Tangled’: Madison Rubenstein paints what it feels like to live with invisible illness
Madison Rubenstein, a painter and visual artist from Bloomington, creates large-format paintings in their Minneapolis studio, drawing on experiences of chronic illness and disability.
Art Hounds: Shakespeare in a sculpture park
Art Hounds discuss “Twelfth Night” at Franconia Sculpture Park, Teatro del Pueblo’s “Love in a Time of Hate” and “The Seeker” at Lake Superior
The journey to pink pride: The ‘sickly sweet’ art of Duluth’s Cherry Koch
Cherry Koch, a Duluth artist awarded a grant for her “Homebody” project, explores themes of identity, trauma and religion through surrealist portraits of friends holding dollhouse-sized structures she builds.
Art Hounds: Recommendation for Pride, a play about looking for romance
Also, “Babe Train Presents: B24 Improvised Films” parodies independent movies. In Winona, two dancers make a connection with the Mississippi River.
From Verona to Nogales with a Latino adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Teatro del Pueblo’s adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” integrates Latin American culture, Spanish language and spoken word poetry into Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.