State of the Arts Blog

Nina Archabal is leaving the MHS after serving it for 33 years, 23 of them as the society's director.
Off to join the circus
Actor/director Noah Bremer is running away to join the circus... Cirque du Soleil, that is.
Art Hounds: New Music, StevenBe, Speech
The hounds track down forward thinking classical music in Duluth, a fashion forward knitting wizard in Minneapolis, and some polished public speakers at the state high school speech tourney.
Your weekend outlook: panoramic
A landscape photography show, high fashion and the St. Paul arts crawl await on the horizon.
An Irish poet on American literature
Irishman Theo Dorgan is in town this week to receive the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas.
MIA Curator Bob Jacobsen resigns
The curator responsible for bringing the MIA's Asian Art collection to national prominence steps down.
Sudden surgery for one of the actors in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" stalls the show's opening.
A former pillar of the Children's Theatre Company has passed.
The Scottish folksinging legend is stranded here so plays a little more
Jonathan Klein, the head of Getty Images, looks back on some of the photographs that changed history.