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MAEP, MIA?—Museum leadership assailed at public meeting

Something is rotten in the state of the arts. Or so it seemed to more than 250 people who attended the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program (MAEP) community meeting last Saturday morning. The tense crowd of artists, museum staff, media representatives, and other community members swarmed like hornets out of a nest into the Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) for a two-hour-plus meeting. Their issue? In a museum-wide restructuring effort, MIA director Kaywin Feldman—the museum’s fourth director in five years, Feldman began her tenure in January 2008—has reduced the MAEP’s autonomy, adding unprecedented layers of administrative oversight. MORE »

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