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Art

Losing shape: Undoing the human body

by Danylo Loutchko
Published January 26, 2016

Artist Nicole Simpkins grew up near a salt marsh in New England.     There — in the undefined boundary between freshwater and saltwater — land and sea became a poignant metaphor...

James O'Brien uses ink, gouache and a computer to create a digital print. The illustration, titled "Patch Man," will be featured in "Illustrators' Studio: the Art of Illustration."

Illustrators draw up center stage

by Brenda Tran
Published January 21, 2016
Form + Content Gallery curates personal works from local illustrators in a studio exhibition.

Monster Drawing Rally returns for its eighth year

by Brenda Tran
Published December 8, 2015
Local artists come together for Midway Contemporary Art's annual fundraiser.

The Ivory Tower: ‘By students, for students, featuring students’

by Danylo Loutchko
Published December 3, 2015
The undergraduate staff of the art and literary magazine is creating the 10th Anniversary edition.
Rachel Gold poses with the cover art of her new book at the Book House in Dinkytown on Sunday. Gold will be reading a section from her book, "My Year Zero" at the Queer Voices event on Tuesday.

Connections in queer spaces

by Chance Wellnitz
Published December 1, 2015
Intermedia Arts’ Queer Voices series helps LGBT community members find their voice.
Photo of the Guthrie: The Guthrie Theater in the winter. Photo by Lisa Bond.

The Twin Cities from behind the lens

by Grace Kramer
Published November 23, 2015
Four photographers give their take on capturing the metro area on film.
The exterior of the Soap Factory as seen on Sunday. The Soap Factory is scheduled to go on a break starting December.

After the scare

by Chance Wellnitz
Published November 17, 2015
Local arts community members remain cautiously optimistic the Soap Factory will reopen after its hiatus.
Twin Cities artist Ta–coumba T. Aiken poses with a selection of his rhythm paintings in the Show Gallery Lowertown on Tuesday. Aiken's exhibition opened to the public last night, November 4.

How to simplify complexity

by Grant Tillery
Published November 5, 2015
Ta-coumba Aiken’s latest show gives a glimpse into the life of the Lowertown legend.
Members of the Girls Only Comic Club meet to discuss what comics they've been reading as of late at the Kitty Cat Klub on Thursday.

A girls-only geeky get-together

by Chance Wellnitz
Published November 5, 2015
Every Thursday night, the Girls Only Comic Club provides a safe space for female comic-lovers to nerd out.
The Walker Art Center's latest exhibit - Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia - opens Friday Oct. 23. The show features works from the late 1960s and early 1970s that critique society at large and provide an alternative blueprint to the mainstream experiences of the time.

Counterculture at work

by Grant Tillery
Published October 22, 2015
“Hippie Modernism” exhibit creates the first official canon for era’s modernist art.

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