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Minnesota Arts

A rare U.S. premiere brings Harlem Renaissance poetry to sacred music

A rare U.S. premiere brings Harlem Renaissance poetry to sacred music

A Minnesota choral institution is hosting the composer behind some of the most widely sung sacred music in the U.S., pairing a rare U.S. premiere with a concert that bridges Christmas tradition and Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
by Jacob Aloi

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What it took to return a 3,200-year-old bronze owl to public view at Mia

What it took to return a 3,200-year-old bronze owl to public view at Mia

A rare, 3,200-year-old bronze owl, damaged by a visitor and painstakingly repaired overseas, returns to view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art — raising questions about risk, conservation and how museums display their most fragile treasures.
by Alex V. Cipolle

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Art Hounds: Fiber art at MIA, a multimedia premiere in Rochester and surreal sisterhood onstage

Art Hounds: Fiber art at MIA, a multimedia premiere in Rochester and surreal sisterhood onstage

Art Hounds recommend an immersive fiber arts exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a multimedia film premiere in Rochester and a surreal new play at Mixed Blood Theatre.
by Emily Bright

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'Snow is a giant mirror' — an art exhibition captures the color and quiet of peak Minnesota winter

'Snow is a giant mirror' — an art exhibition captures the color and quiet of peak Minnesota winter

A new exhibition at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum reveals winter as a season of vivid color and quiet beauty, through the eyes of artists who venture into Minnesota’s cold to capture snow not as white, but as a mirror of light.
by Alex V. Cipolle

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Last chance New Year's events

Last chance New Year's events

From early-evening drops to late-night dance floors, here’s a last-chance roundup of New Year’s Eve events for people who waited just long enough.
by Jacob Aloi, Alex V. Cipolle and Melissa Olson

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‘Somewhere’ at the Guthrie explores family tensions through drama and dance

‘Somewhere’ at the Guthrie explores family tensions through drama and dance

In Matthew Lopez’s “Somewhere,” now onstage at the Guthrie Theater, dance takes the place of song to tell the story of a Puerto Rican family fighting to preserve art, identity and home as their 1950s New York neighborhood is erased.
by Jacob Aloi

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