State of the Arts Blog

Psy brings ‘Gangnam style’ to St. Paul
Tonight's Jingle Ball at the Xcel Energy Center brings together some of the hottest acts in the pop music scene, including the South Korean phenomenon known as Psy.
Gordon Parks at 100: his legacy lives on in young students
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Gordon Parks, a groundbreaking African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer and musician who spent his teen years in St. Paul.
The Mother of Masks, a call to the spirit
The Mother of Masks ensemble fuses poetry and jazz in a spiritual musical conversation.
A new era for the Minnesota Museum of American Art
This weekend the museum celebrates its new Project Space in downtown Saint Paul, its first public home in almost four years.
TPT to air Minnesota Opera’s ‘Silent Night’
Minnesota Opera's Pulitzer Prize-winning production of 'Silent Night' will air on tpt on Friday, December 21 at 8pm.
Art Hounds: Portraits, Yuletide radio theater, and a zydeco dance party
The hounds are anxious to tell you about two Minneapolis artists whose off-beat portraits lodge in your brain, a holiday radio theater drama from Winona and two zydeco heavyweights who inspire bodies to move...rhythmically.