Marianne Combs
Tomorrow Bedlam Lowertown will mark its official opening to the public with a full day of festivities.
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Archives for May 2014
For the past 18 months, musician, painter and performer Venus De Mars has been battling with the Minnesota Department of Revenue over her status as a professional artist. The department ruled that De Mars is not a professional artist and cannot claim tax deductions for artistic work, and therefore owed several thousand dollars in back Read more →
Chris Roberts
This week, a special blend of klezmer and classical, the kinship between the Yangtze and the Mississippi rivers, and Shakespeare in the Park…ing Ramp. Read more →
“Wanna do some push-ups?” asks Paul Riedner, with a grin. Riedner, a former U.S. Army deep sea diver, is a bundle of energy — good energy. The young vet lives with his wife and kids in Minneapolis, but this week he’s hanging out in his home town of Red Wing and nearby Frontenac for the Read more →
A local instrumental and vocal ensemble loaded with talent, a one-of-a-kind Minneapolis comedienne, and immaculately clear images of urban decay, all were on the Art Hounds radar this week. Read more →
Euan Kerr
Liquid Music curator Kate Nordstrum is excited about the third season of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new music concert series. “These works are all new projects, the vast majority of them created specifically for the series,” said Nordtrum who curates the SPCO’s successful new music program. She described the artists being presented as “powerhouses.” Read more →
“Dirt Sticks” runs through June 1 at Open Book in Minneapolis. Have you seen it? What’s your review? Read more →
Director Richard Ayoade takes on Dostoyevsky’s dark novella about a man confronted by a new work colleague who not only looks just like him, he begins to take over his life. Read more →
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ new exhibition on Finnish design presents some of the latest ideas from a culture that has a growing appreciation for home furnishings that are both local and sustainable. Read more →
This week, nordic electropop that’s artfully accessible, a room from which you and eleven others will never escape unless you solve some puzzles, and learning about Guinean drumming and dance traditions. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Haitian folkloric dancer Anne Adabra will get a fuller sense of her own West African roots when Read more →