Introducing the new Cindy Sherman retrospective to the press corps at the Walker Art Center on November 8 (it opens to the public on Saturday, November 10), Museum of Modern Art curator Eva Respini mentioned the exhibit's relevance "in the age of Facebook." That's the kind of phrase that's often used synonymous with "in 2012," whether or not the speaker intends to actually say anything substantive about online identity—but in this case, it was apt. Social media, Facebook in particular, now force many of us to engage questions of identity, artifice, and representation on a daily basis, and those are questions that are very relevant to Sherman's 35-year body of work.

A unique partnership among the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and several schools in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota that have high Spanish speaking populations offers a glimpse not only of the artistic capacity of some of these students, but of their ability to express emotion and honor those that are passed in a respectful, thoughtful way. Now in its fifth year, The Young People’s Ofrenda Project showcases student work within the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos, where students create ofrendas (or shrines) honoring people who have died.