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Art

Spectators inside Haegue Yang’s “Yearning Melancholy Red” immediately become both a critic of the elaborate maze of blinds and a hidden limb of the work.
PHOTO COURTESY WALKER ART CENTER

Haegue Yang is a new kind of insider

by John Sand
Published September 30, 2009
Yang’s installation at the Walker explores the life inside of lifeless objects.
The shading on Tim Sundquist's award winning dead baby tattoo is most intricate. PHOTO BY TOM JOHNSON, DAILY

The freak and chic of tattoo culture

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 23, 2009
A&E’s intrepid reporter fields the needles and skulls to check out the Minneapolis Tattoo Arts Convention.
"Look at the beard on that guy!" says local student group.
PHOTO COURTESY CAMPUS PEOPLE WATCHERS

How-to: people watch

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 16, 2009
We all do it, now learn to get the most out of it with some simple steps from a not-so-creepy student group.
Li and Liu “just doing it” in their gallery
PHOTO COURTESY KATHERINE E. NASH GALLERY

Encounters with modern Chinese art

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 16, 2009
“Encounters: The Past Re-configured” at the Nash looks into the past to see the future identity of Chinese art.

West Bank Social Center ‘powerhouse’ of MPLS cultural cell

by Mark Brenden
Published September 9, 2009
Both ambiguous and unpredictable, WBSC is harboring the strangest cultural events in the city.
PHOTO COURTESY ATRIA

Reading list: William Kent Krueger

by Thomas Q. Johnson
Published September 9, 2009
The local author releases “Heaven’s Keep” to his series of fast-moving mysteries.
PHOTO COURTESY RANDOM HOUSE

Inside the Collyer brothers’ mansion

by Kara Nesvig
Published September 9, 2009
E.L. Doctorow’s new novel is a national treasure
‘Big Funny’ puts the comic in the spotlight

‘Big Funny’ puts the comic in the spotlight

Published August 11, 2009
The release of a 48-page newspaper made entirely of comics is a lifeboat for a medium stuck in the sinking newspaper industry.

The sport of awkward, feathery kings

by Jay Boller
Published August 11, 2009
Last week’s Extreme Race Day at Canterbury saw ostriches in the exact state God intended: being topped by tiny men and racing for sport.
Former Jane magazine scribe Joshua Lyon on painkiller addictions, Michael Jackson
PHOTO COURTESY HYPERION

“Pill Head” Nation

Published July 7, 2009
Former Jane magazine scribe Joshua Lyon on painkiller addictions, Michael Jackson

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