State of the Arts Blog

Art Hounds: Matt Rasmussen, The Vow Factor, and beatmakers who get booties shakin’
The hounds highlight a Walt Whitman Award winning poet from Robbinsdale, satire of the most divisive institution on the ballot this year, and Twin Cities hip hop producers who know how to win over a crowd.
An artsy home for an artsy business
A local art center is working to move into an abandoned historic building.
Must-see Twin Cities Jazz Festival shows from six local artists
Who do Twin Cities jazz musicians want to see at the 2012 Twin Cities Jazz Festival? Everyone. The musicians' selections, like the festival's, balance national and local acts and include a variety of styles. Here are some top picks:
Linguist Geoff Nunberg points to the recent silencing of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown as part of a trend he calls the 'New Reticence.'
Reconnecting audiences to jazz
The Twin Cities Jazz Festival continues its tradition of a great lineup featuring national and local performers. Organizers hope to reconnect modern audiences to jazz.
It’s a Rembrandt… or is it?
The new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts addresses the confusion over which paintings are actually the Dutch master's work.
Police arrest Brother Ali for civil disobedience
Brother Ali was among 13 protesters arrested in South Minneapolis last night as part of an ongoing occupation of a foreclosed home.
Five questions for Dr. Stan Hill
The Artistic Director of the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus looks back on his career as he prepares to retire.