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Mary Abbe

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.

Recent content from Mary Abbe

A masterful tome on the art of deception
"Provenance" reads like brilliant detective fiction, but is grounded in fact.
Sep 15, 2009
Fall arts preview: Art
On loan from France's premier art museum, 62 paintings, sculptures, drawings, decorative objects and antiquities reflect changing tastes and ideas of beauty spanning 4,000 years. This extraordinary show will include paintings by Vermeer, Boucher, Chardin, La Tour and Gericault; and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Sep 12, 2009
Two historic French paintings returned to J. J. Hill mansion
The artwork includes an important pre-Impressionist landscape by J.B.C. Corot.
Sep 11, 2009
Art: Not so nice at the Minnesota State Fair
An excess of Minnesota Nice makes for a blander-than-usual State Fair art show.
Aug 27, 2009
Bird's-eye view
A Minneapolis artist plans an "iconic" peacock bridge for a Los Angeles freeway.
Aug 22, 2009
Art: Seeing the light
The sheer size of an illuminating installation has the Walker all aglow.
Aug 20, 2009
Community, history shape art for LRT
Proposed $2.8 million in art for Central Corridor line will be unveiled today.
Aug 20, 2009
Don't mess with Zoran
Wrestling with 30-ton stones comes as naturally as breathing to Twin Cities sculptor Zoran Mojsilov.
Aug 9, 2009
Good Karma
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts managed to keep some important 13th-century Indian sculptures.
Aug 8, 2009
Art: Uptown newbie
Hundreds of artists will converge on Minneapolis this weekend. Here's one of them.
Aug 6, 2009


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