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State of the Arts Blog

Mn Orch Assistant Concertmaster Stephanie Arado steps down

Update: Stephanie Arado spoke with MPR’s Cathy Wurzer on Morning Edition. You can hear the interview here.  Concerned that the Minnesota Orchestra has “lost its way,”  Assistant Concertmaster Stephanie Arado announced today that she is leaving the orchestra to teach. In a letter today to Orchestra President and CEO Michael Henson,  Vice President and General Manager Read more →
by Euan Kerr

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At 40, Hip-Hop is not what it once was

Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of Clive Campbell’s first party in the South Bronx, laying the foundation for a new music culture we now know as Hip-Hop, which included not just rap and DJing, but breaking and graffiti as well. Dart Adams writes for NPR that Hip-Hops roots were far nobler than its current incarnation.…
by Marianne Combs

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20th Minnesota Fringe Festival ends strong

The Minnesota Fringe, the annual performing arts festival that presents dozens of acts on multiple stages, distributed 49,991 tickets over 11 days, according to preliminary estimates. That’s up from last year, when the festival distributed 46,280 tickets. This year,the Fringe offered tickets were to 176 different shows in 16 participating venues. Not all tickets are…
by Marianne Combs

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Cyro Baptista joins Todd Clouser at Icehouse

Cyro Baptista joins Todd Clouser at Icehouse

    Music fans in the Twin Cities will have a chance to see how a favorite musicial son continues to evolve when guitarist Todd Clouser performs Saturday at the Icehouse restaurant in Minneapolis. Joining him on state will be percussionist Cyro Baptista, a Brazilian native known for his collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon,…
by David Cazares

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Artist Fritz Haeg domesticates the Walker

Artist Fritz Haeg domesticates the Walker

Tonight visitors to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will be invited to sit on a hand braided rug, drink tea and talk about canning and other domestic pursuits. Artist Fritz Haeg inspired this shift from high art to the quotidian, bringing dirt and plants to the sterile gallery spaces that normally make up a…
by Marianne Combs

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Art Hounds: Thought Forms, Picnic Operetta, and Shiraz Mukarram

Duluth sculptor and writer Ann Klefstad recommends “Thought Forms”: “Thought Forms” is a show of sculpture by Paul Higham, an English artist who takes brain wave signals and turns them into inputs for CNC routers and 3D printers. The forms that result are material evidence of thoughts — literally “thought forms.” Don’t miss this chance to see Read more →
by Molly Bloom

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One month after stroke, composer Stephen Paulus still unresponsive

One month after stroke, composer Stephen Paulus still unresponsive

A month after suffering a massive stroke, Twin Cities composer Stephen Paulus is breathing on his own, but unresponsive. Paulus, 63, has composed more than 450 works across a broad spectrum of genres, including works for choir and for pipe organ. At the time of his stroke he had just completed the second movement of…
by Marianne Combs

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