State of the Arts Blog

Midwestern Zen: the art of Deborah Foutch
Deborah Foutch's work is a tribute to glowing afternoons and the landscape she grew up with.
Does our culture give us too many choices?
Interact gallery: artists with ability
Interact's artists may all have disabilities, but that doesn't show in their art.
The Kresge Foundation awards Intermedia Arts $200,000.
Your Weekend Outlook: Go with the FLOW
Summer celebrations feature music, theater, science experiments and treasure hunts.
Take a trip back in the MPR time machine and listen to a report on the first half of First Avenue's musical history.
Art Hounds: Ladysmith, Liberia and dance
This week's hounds are promoting an opera with small town Wisconsin roots, a pair of choreographers from NYC making their mark at the Southern, and the work of a Liberian installation artist at a local African market.
Images of India at MPC
Robi Chakraborty travels back to his native India to capture the people, colors and festivities of his childhood.