Visual Arts

State Fair Fine Arts competition entrants at record numbers

By Barb Teed, TC Daily Planet

A sculpture covered in dental and medical products waits for the jury to decide its fate at the 98th Annual State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition.

Barb Teed
Robert Meyer was busy at the table of the Fine Arts Center on the Minnesota State Fair grounds the weekend of Aug. 7.MORE »

Cities where you'll find art and romance

by André Salvadore | 8/6/09
Dear André,

I'm a guy who's just getting over a tough breakup, and since I'm a self-employed artist I have the flexibility to travel. I'd like to get out of town for a few months, check out some new scenes, and hopefully even have a few flings. Any tips on where to go for art and romance?

-Topher
Hi Topher,
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Arts Orbit Radar: 8/6/09

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

2007 Uptown Art Fair. Photo by Ernesto De Quesada (Creative Commons)

This week's picks

Thursday, August 6
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Weekend What's What 8/6-8/9: Art rocks

By staff, l'etoile magazine
This weekend we've got a killer balance of visuals and sound with a number of exciting new art shows opening, as well as a handful of can't-miss music events. Our opinion?MORE »

Danos/Dose/Garthus at Sellout: Virtual Maui, good vibrations, and a Quan Nu smackdown arena

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Mitchell Dose's wood assembly. Below: Ben Garthus plays Quan Nu with Ruben Nusz; Garthus with one of his screenprinted gameboards.

Three simple but substantive works of art will go on display this Friday evening at Sellout Art: a video projection by MORE »

Weekend What's What 7/31-8/2: Oh, the drama!

By staff, l'etoile magazine
This weekend kicks off one of the Midwest's largest and quirkiest performing arts events, the two-week long Minnesota Fringe Festival!MORE »

Cultivating a community: FLOW Northside Arts Crawl

By Crystal Erickson, TC Daily Planet

Charles Caldwell's Our Struggles. Photo courtesy the Carney Group and the Northside Marketing Task Force.

On the corner of Broadway and Penn, hung against the wall of the building once home to Delisi’s Restaurant, hangs a piece by North Minneapolis artist Charles Caldwell titled Our Struggles.MORE »

Artery 24: The throbbing heart of performance art

By Crystal Erickson, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Ken Yee (Creative Commons)

A lot will be going on this weekend at Artery 24, the Soap Factory’s 24-hour performance art extravaganza: ceMORE »

Weekend What's What 7/23-7/26: Fancy free

By staff, l'etoile magazine
This weekend is an all-you-can-experience buffet laden heartily with the kind of fun that people less interesting than you would surely pay good money for.MORE »

Weekend What's What 7/16-7/19: All together now

By staff, l'etoile magazine
This weekend is definitely one of those weekends that we can hardly stand, simply because there are too many killer events to attend. It seems the recession has created an upsurge of D.I.Y.MORE »
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