State of the Arts Blog

Return To Forever’s inventive jazz-rock
For many jazz traditionalists, the electronic experiments of the early 1970s that fused the music with rock and roll damaged a storied genre. To hear some tell it, the wired intrusions replaced sophisticated melodies and earthy rhythms with rambling noise. But musicians and fans who came of age during that era celebrate those years for…
So you think you know your composers?
Classical MPR's "Top Score" sets a challenge
Milkweed gets a Presidential boost
Publishers know they have to make the best use of any publicity.
Exploring Red Wing’s Ceramic Past & Present
Potter Alex Wilson and Minneapolis Institute of Arts Curator Jennifer Komar Olivarez shed light on the ceramics legacy of Red Wing, Minnesota.
Call and response: poetry transformed into art
Kathryn Kysar's book of poetry "Pretend the World" is the inspiration for an exhibition of art at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.
Rediscovering the lost mansions of the Twin Cities
Larry Millett tells the fascinating stories behind 90 mansions and estates in his latest book 'Once there were Castles.'