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Reporter | Visual Arts/Architecture

Phone: 612-673-4431

Mary Abbe has been writing art chat for the Star Tribune through the reigns of three Walker Art Center directors, five heads of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and too many gallery scenes to count. She still finds interviewing artists, collectors, curators and crew more fun than fireworks.

Art spotlight: 'Gordon Parks: At 100'

Before he directed the movie "Shaft," wrote an opera, chronicled the civil rights movement for Life and photographed Parisian fashions...

Updated: June 07, 2012, - 07:16 AM

Art spotlight: 'Gordon Parks: At 100'

Opens Thursday 6/7 Before he directed the movie "Shaft," wrote an opera, chronicled the civil rights movement for Life and photographed...

Updated: June 02, 2012, - 07:15 PM

Art opening: '1934: A New Deal for Artists'

When times get tough, artists are often hit hard, their work dismissed as inessential frivolities. So it was in the...

Updated: June 01, 2012, - 02:53 PM

Art spotlight: Depression-era works

Pieces from the Public Works of Art program at the Minnesota History Center.

Updated: May 31, 2012, - 03:04 PM

On the borderlines

Coming from a country where disconnect is implicit, South Korean artist Minouk Lim explores the boundaries of fact and fiction, past and future, in a new Walker Art Center show.

Updated: May 31, 2012, - 03:02 PM