Minnesota Arts

'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.
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.
‘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.
‘A family reunion of artists’: Minnesota Anishinaabe artists showcased in Detroit and beyond
A major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts brings together more than 60 Anishinaabe artists, including over 15 from Minnesota, in a rare, large-scale celebration of contemporary Native art.
MN Shortlist: Art, memory and home — 6 picks for Dec. 19-25
The stretch before the holidays has a way of sharpening things. Art leans toward advocacy, music turns reflective and familiar stories get reframed through local history and loss.
4 facts about 'I Feel Down Today,' the new single from Ponderosa
Minneapolis musician Josh Lavonn says his latest album came from one place: love. The Ponderosa frontman credits his wife and the relationships around him as the spark behind “Woman,” a retro-soul record built on devotion, vulnerability and long-term partnership.