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State of the Arts Blog

Sarah Hicks and the Sequined Vests

The Minnesota Orchestra's new Pops conductor looks to the future
by Euan Kerr

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Blake School part of national theater project on hate crimes

Tonight theater groups across the country will stage performances of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" to raise awareness of hate crimes and their impact on a community.
by Marianne Combs

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Making the leap from actor to director

Making the leap from actor to director

Sonja Parks has a strong reputation for her acting on Twin Cities stages. But her eyes are set on directing, and she's taking on a Shakespeare classic.
by Marianne Combs

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Obama’s choice of art starts plagiarism debate

Obama’s choice of art starts plagiarism debate

Alma Thomas' piece "Watusi" looks an awful lot like a piece by Henri Matisse done years earlier. We find out why.
by Marianne Combs

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Twin Cities Book Festival tomorrow

Book lovers celebrate all things literary this weekend.
by Marianne Combs

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Art for the White House

Art for the White House

If you lived in the White House, what art would you hang on the walls?
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Julie Mehretu, Winona and Mississippi Volga III

Art Hounds: Julie Mehretu, Winona and Mississippi Volga III

Follow this week's Art Hounds to a melding of words, images and music in Winona, an exhibition of multi-layered prints that resemble mini-civilizations, and a multi-culti mash-up of light, movement and sound in Minneapolis.
by Marianne Combs

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Celebrating the extended family

Celebrating the extended family

Jazz and poetry group Ancestor Energy presents "Fathers and Daughters,"
by Marianne Combs

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The danger in believing the stories we’re told

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argues literature has an important role to play in destroying - and creating - stereotypes.
by Marianne Combs

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Historical novel “Wolf Hall” wins Booker Prize

Historical novel “Wolf Hall” wins Booker Prize

Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" was favorite to win - which has hurt some books in years past.
by Euan Kerr

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