Visual Arts

Public Arts St Paul celebrates second annual Western Sculpture Park Festival

By Ge Gao, TC Daily Planet

Curious kids see through the bright colored megaphone. (Photos by Ge Gao)

On September 15, a sunny Saturday afternoon, Public Arts St Paul kicked off its second annual festival at Western Sculpture Park at noon.

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Derek Davis—painting nature’s moods

By Janet Contursi

Whether painting a scene of early morning, midday or twilight, Derek Davis tries to capture nature’s elusive qualities.

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Art at home: South Minneapolis Constellation in a backyard and Communist Daughter in a living room

By Ann Treacy, Arts Orbit

Art has never felt more community-focused (nor a community more art-focused) than being invited into the backyards and living rooms of South Minneapolis. That's what we got to experience last weekend through the South Minneapolis Constellation event and a CakeIn15 living room concert by Communist Daughter.

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Artists and art-lovers, help us promote your upcoming events!

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

At the Twin Cities Daily Planet, we're an edited news publication—but that's where the similarities between us and traditional journalists end. We believe that there's more knowledge to be found in our communities than can be found in any one newsroom, and to that end we aim to empower Twin Cities residents to tell their own story. We want to be your megaphone.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | St. Paul's Iris Park to become a "Creation Station"

By Jay Gabler, Neighborhood Notes

Photo by Eric Melzer, courtesy Rachel Petrie

Are you a living, breathing human being? Do you have any ideas for anything that might conceivably be regarded as art? Can you get yourself to Iris Park on University Avenue on September 22?

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Gateway Mural Project turns a University District underpass into the world's biggest paint-by-number project

By Jay Gabler, Neighborhood Notes

Courtesy Gateway Mural Project

When is an underpass not just an underpass? When it's a high-traffic gateway between the Como and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods, for one—and also, when it's a work of art.

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Andy Evansen’s watercolors at the Frameworks

By Janet Contursi

“Watercolor Impressions, at Home and Abroad” is Andy Evansen’s solo show currently featured at the Frameworks Gallery in St. Paul.

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Leigh Douglas Johnson exhibits at the Robbin Gallery

By Janet Contursi

The current show at the Robbin Gallery, “Art from Two Centuries,” is a solo exhibit of oils, graphite and photography by Leigh Douglas Johnson, an artist who wears many different hats.

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Why we need a Minnesota Museum of Contemporary Folk Art

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Despite its highfalutin name, the Fine Arts Building at the Minnesota State Fair tends to reward craft over art—and that's the way people like it. There's a distinctly populist slant to the art on display: from a figure covered in piano hammers (I checked and sure enough, the piece's title was Piano Man, by House of Balls proprietor Allen Christian) to a portrait carved in a giant magnifying glass (Nicholas Legeros's Look Closer) to a photo of a nude pregnant woman (Denise Mack's Pregnancy Glow), the pieces selected for inclusion evoke less a sense of wonder or mystery than a sense of here's-what-I-wanted-to-do-and-look!-I-done-went-and-did-it.

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The art of Nicolai Fechin at TMORA

By Janet Contursi

Of the Russian artists who have left a mark on American painting, Nicolai Fechin (1881–1955) ranks as one of the greatest.

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