This week’s picks lean into transformation and motion, from ice made to melt to music, theater and stories about what happens when belief, speed and ambition collide.
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.
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.
At the Guthrie Theater, “Somewhere” follows a gifted dancer who gives up his own ambitions to support his family, tracing the fragile balance between artistic dreams, responsibility and sacrifice.
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 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.
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.
This week, Art Hounds spotlight a shamanic winter solstice ceremony, an evening of storytelling with Kao Kalia Yang, and a dance theater take on a Hanukkah favorite.
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