Yes, Uptown suffers from a personality crisis, but it’s also vibrant and undeniably walkable
It’s caught between a low-rent, artsy McPunk past and an absurdly gentrified present. But Miriam Rudolph’s etchings, Dave Eggers’ drawings and two side-by-side windows beckon.
A new column by the one and only Andy Sturdevant.
Noreen Ovadia Wills, owner of Coco Cafe and Bakery, one of sponsors of the Big Water Film Festival.
Graphic art and feminist film at the Walker: too much of too much!
“When has there ever been such an accumulation around its entrance, smoking cigarettes, wearing tight black jeans and ironic branded T-shirts, every single one of them in chunky spectacles? … If the subject is typefaces, particularly sans serif typefaces, they’re graphic designers.”
Sculptor Allen Christian offers a quick look inside his House of Balls, an offbeat art studio in the Minneapolis Warehouse District.
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Impressive graffiti time-lapse video from local artist, River.
Spent a few hours yesterday making this illo for a story on money from tobacco bonds that probably won’t run now. Argh.
The least we can do is run the illo on Tumblr.
“When John Waters was in town, he talked about cleaning ladies as being contemporary art’s greatest enemies, because they always mistake it for trash and throw it out. Turk has solved that problem — his trash bags are actually bronze sculptures of trash bags, carefully painted to look convincing like plastic and trash, and so any cleaning lady who tries to get rid of it is liable to herniate herself.”
Emptying the notebook: A variety of cultural recommendations
Max About Town: One L, two Ns: Bachmann in the arts
Of the many artistic interpretations we’ve seen, perhaps the oddest response to Bachmann has come from Minnesota painter Dan Lacey.
But, then, Lacey calls himself “the painter of pancakes,” and, yes, he puts pancakes in all of his paintings, so his response was bound to be a little odd.
One of the bigger initiatives that the magazine had, and one of the things that I think my dad is most proud of, is the salon movement, which he was really instrumental in starting in the ’80s/early ’90s … So they sent a letter to all of their subscribers, and they said, “How would you like to meet the people who subscribe to the magazine in your neighborhood?” They ended up having something like 20,000 people across the country meeting in each other’s living rooms on a weekly, monthly, bimonthly basis.
Ordway opus salutes Holocaust survivor Dr. Robert Fisch, a true hero of humanity
Among his many accomplishments, he’s a hero not only for surviving the concentration camps but for emerging from those horrors seeking — and usually finding — hope.
MIA billboard with modesty graffiti.
My mom sent me this. Good stuff.
Seriously, somebody get her a shawl or something.
50 and 50: 50 and 50 is a collective, curated project where fifty designers are invited to represent their state by illustrating its motto
Kym by Alec Soth from his project Sleeping by The Mississippi. Soth is a magnum photographer from Minnesota who also has his own business called Little Brown Mushroom (check out their Tumblr). He’s one of my favorite photographers in the United States right now.
In today’s Max About Town, Sparber highlights a show at the Chambers Hotel gallery, by St. Louis artist Leslie Hold, called “Hello, Masterpiece.”
She has painted near-perfect replicas of classic paintings by Picasso, Klimt, Warhol and the like, but at the size of a paperbook book cover, and she has inserted Hello Kitty into every single one.
What more can we say? Her work speaks for itself.
