Over 2,200 people gathered at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Minneapolis Saturday night to witness Bollywood-Fusion at its finest. Inspired by South Asian arts and culture, Bollywood-Fusion dancers also...
Friday night marks the opening of the Theatre Arts & Dance Department's Spring Dance Concert, and dance majors have been cramming studio hours and rehearsing day and night. A&E began to wonder:...
Midway through Black History Month, Marvel released its highly anticipated film, "Black Panther." With a dominantly black cast, director and writers, Black Panther earned $75.8 million dollars by Friday's...
Friday night appeared to be just like any other. Underclassmen walked in tight-knit herds to frat-row, jocks ignored walk signs as they stormed Qdoba and odd characters tumbled from Ubers in front of the...
Saturday night marks the 50th Anniversary of the University of Minnesota Apparel Design Fashion Show. Completely student-run at one time, the show is now integrated into the curriculum of the College of...
What makes a museum? At the Walker Art Center, the public rarely sees what's behind the gleaming white walls, curated exhibitions and pristine panels and labeling.
In addition to its exhibitions...
Friday: Mia Ice Maze
Cute date idea alert! Hosted by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the ice maze is the perfect place to get lost with your significant other. Images of objects featured in Mia's newest...
Never has there been such a duo as science and art. The two compliment each other, delivering strong and effective messages backed up by facts and overflowing with emotion. “Vanishing Ice,” the Weisman...
It’s not every day the Super Bowl comes to town! With concerts, clubs and cover charges exceeding hundreds and hundreds of dollars, Super Bowl week may seem a bit intimidating, if not entirely impossible....
Laughter, conversation and exclamations echoed across the ice Saturday morning on Lake Harriet. The opening day of the month-long Art Shanty Projects included an abundance of children in snow pants, dogs...
Based on a fashion and style-icon, the Weisman Art Museum’s “Prince from Minneapolis" exhibition preview party on Friday night was sure to bring memorable and outstanding outfits. From fan merchandise,...
Hundreds of Prince fanatics arrived at the Weisman Art Museum Friday night to see the preview of the new exhibition “Prince from Minneapolis.” The party, which quickly sold out, offered fancy foods...
Soo Visual Arts Center opened its doors Friday morning to celebrate the first day of the center's annual Artists Holiday Shop. Located just off of Lyndale Avenue in Uptown, the shop features a variety...
Wednesday night, Trylon Cinema quickly sold out as University of Minnesota alumnus and adjunct professor Sam Hoolihan presented “Silence with Sound,” a collection of Super 8 and 16-mm films. The highlight...
With the holidays just around the corner, there’s no better time to start thinking about your gift list. Avoid obstacles like your comical bank statement and procrastination by hitting the sales and...
Friday: CSE Winter Light Show
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The College of Science and Engineering will kick off its seventh annual Winter Light Show on Friday at 5 p.m. sharp, with repeats...
Not many people know that the University of Minnesota houses a foundry inside the depths of the Regis Center for Art, and even fewer know that students operate the heavy machinery. On Tuesday night, the...
The College of Liberal Arts held auditions last week for the CLA Student Board’s annual “Gophers Got Talent” show, formerly called “Concert in The Whole." Out of the more than 40 students...
At McNeal Hall, design students can often be seen squinting into laptop screens, cursing Adobe software or snoozing in the lobby. Thursday morning was an exception. Students arrived excited and eager to...
Argentine photographer Gustavo Germano’s exhibition “Ausencias/Absences" opened at Regis Center for Art on Friday night. Brought to the University largely on behalf of Spanish and Portuguese...
Photographs, hung sparsely on the gallery walls of The White Page, depicted natural light in bare settings, gentle ripples in still water, lines of poetry and intimate portraits of women of color.
The...
Henna, Bollywood, ink paintings and jazz — the theme of Friday afternoon was art.
As part of their weekly meetings, Small World Coffee Hour hosted a special event in collaboration with the Weisman...
The College of Design recently hired Carol Strohecker as the dean, a role that hasn’t been permanently filled for the past two academic years. Previously the vice provost at Rhode Island School of Design,...
Participating in the University of Minnesota Art Department’s Visiting Artists and Critics Program (VACP), international artist Sonia Barrett made studio visits with graduate students, held workshops...
Friday: Art Attack 2017
Live music, art demonstrations, food trucks and more — meet with hundreds of local artists this weekend as the Northrup King Building celebrates its 20th annual Art Attack. Friday...
Located at the Solar Arts Building, the opening reception of Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association’s AutumNE art show featured over 150 original artworks from NEMAA artists. Live music flooded the gallery...
Recently awarded the UMN Alumni of Notable Achievement Award for his work as a filmmaker and media entrepreneur, Ian Truitner was in town to see his film to its final destination at the Twin Cities Film...
Saturday Night Live star Vanessa Bayer and local Minneapolis comedian Brandi Brown brought hundreds to Ted Mann Concert Hall for a two-hour comedy show Tuesday night. Organized by Student Unions and Activities,...
The night started off with a bang — or rather a multitude of them. A group dressed as a videographer, a bunny, a gorilla and a creepy-masked pig ran around 21st Avenue, clashing cymbals and throwing...
Saturday night, zombies of all shapes and goriness flooded the streets and made their way to the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis for the 13th annual Zombie Pub Crawl. Thunderstorms only added...
As temperatures and (quite probably) academic grades plummet, the perfect fall latte is a must-have when cozying up to study.
This week, A&E scoured the streets from West Bank to Southeast Como...
Friday: National Coming Out Week Drag Show
Drag is taking over the Great Hall! Come celebrate Friday the 13th (costume is encouraged) with a drag show, student drag competition and dance party. The event...
Over a somewhat dreary weekend, the Minneapolis Institute of Art celebrated their 24th Annual Minneapolis Print & Drawing Fair with an abundance of colorful prints for colorful prices. The fair included...
Working for nearly 12 hours a day in the Weisman Art Museum galleries last week, Beth Lipman installed “One Portrait of One Man,” an original glass piece inspired by Marsden Hartley’s painting “One...
Festival de las Calaveras is a multimedia and multidisciplinary arts exhibition that highlights Day of the Dead and explores correlating social justice issues through Latinx art, music and discussion....
Curated by the University of Minnesota’s Women’s Center, the Appleby Hall Art (AHA!) Gallery recently installed “Other,” by artist and University English Ph.D. candidate, Saeide Mirzaei.
“Other,”...
Last week, Wendy Perron — author of “Through the Eyes of a Dancer,” editor at large for Dance Magazine and adjunct teacher at NYU Tisch School of the Arts — was invited to speak to a stage full...
As the air cools and the leaves turn red, so will our wardrobes. However, the birth of new trends means the inevitable death of old ones.
According to a University of Minnesota Apparel Design professor,...
It can be quite easy to overlook ecological crises amid the seemingly more immediate crises of everyday life; but World of Matter, an international collective that investigates global material extraction,...
As a practicing artist with a Ph.D in color science and an extensive background in printing technologies, computer programming and digital color imaging, Boris Oicherman can now add “Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld...
Nothing brings broke college kids together like free art, music and pizza, and the Weisman Art Museum hit these marks Friday.
Considered the Weisman’s kick off to the school year, WAM-O-RAMA is...
