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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.

Wallace Kennedy, innovative arts educator

He paired high school students with professional artists in a program that became a national model.

Updated: January 15, 2013, - 11:27 AM

Walker offers dark dreams and new curiosities

Walker Art Center has refreshed its "Midnight Party" show with new acquisitions and loans.

Updated: January 10, 2013, - 03:41 PM

Trip to dreamland

Walker refreshes 'Midnight Party' with new acquisitions and loans.

Updated: January 10, 2013, - 12:09 PM

Last call for 'China's Terracotta Warriors'

Extended hours through Jan. 27: Buried for centuries, the first soldiers in the terracotta army of China's first emperor emerged...

Updated: January 08, 2013, - 04:16 PM

Phyllis Wiener dies; she was a painter, feminist and 'object maker

A painter and pioneering feminist, Phyllis Wiener was an outspoken role model for a generation that came of age in the 1970s when women were still struggling for professional acceptance in a male-dominated art world. She exhibited her lyrical abstractions throughout Minnesota for more than 60 years and will be included in a show opening this month at the University of Minnesota's Katherine E. Nash Gallery.

Updated: January 07, 2013, - 09:28 PM