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• Review: Modern traditionalist
  A Wisconsin painter brings realistic still lifes and impressionistic portraits and landscapes to the Galleria.
  
• Spotlight: Traffic Zone open studios
  Saturday: Art studios above a wine bar, how cool is that? The 23 studio mates at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art have invited 15 pals to share their clean, well-lighted spaces for a festive "open studio" evening.
  
• Walker to the max
  The museum has rehung its painting collection in a floor-to-ceiling free-for-all that both challenges and delights.
  
• Art spotlight: Scrap/Commuter
  Opening today: The Twin Cities studio of painter Michael Kareken overlooks a junkyard at which mountains of scrap are sorted for recycling -- clear and colored glass, cans, automotive parts, paper, cardboard, bottles, engine parts, oil drums,
  
• MCAD reorients to raise profile
  The Minneapolis art college is spending $2.6 million to reinvent itself as urban oasis in a historic neighborhood.
  
• Artist Jeanne-Claude dies; co-created 'The Gates'
  Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74.
  
• Masters' drawings in `Codex Resta' restored
  The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.
  
• The preservationist-in-chief
  Richard Moe, who led efforts to save America's architectural heritage for nearly two decades, talks about his own legacy.
  
• American Craft Council moving here
  To save money on rent and salaries, the American Craft Council is leaving New York. It expects to hire a dozen Minnesotans.
  
• In the galleries
  The thrills are cheap this month in the Thomas Barry gallery, as Michigan-based photographer Thomas Allen indulges in the titillating noir of postwar pulp.
  
• The Minnesota Eye: Contemporary photography
  Opening Saturday: Anyone with an eye for photography knows that the Twin Cities has unusually successful professionals in the field. Recent work by 17 of them will be featured in "The Minnesota Eye,"
  
• Celebrating Dan Graham's work
  A long-overdue Walker retrospective celebrates the compulsive curiosity of Dan Graham, pioneer of conceptualism.
  
• Permanent milestones
  From tweens to seniors, tattoos have gone mainstream. Tats that commemorate the birth of a child are especially popular these days.
  
• Preservationist Richard Moe to retire
  The Minnesota native and former Mondale aide led the National Trust for Historic Preservation for 17 years.
  
• New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement
  "The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism" (Knopf, 544 pages, $40.00), by Nicholas Fox Weber: In this informal group biography, art historian Nicholas Fox Weber, author of "Le Corbusier" (2008), profiles six key artists and architects from the experimental teaching institution known as the Bauhaus, which flourished in Germany amid the cultural ferment of the Weimar era only to be shuttered by the Nazis.
  
• What makes a masterpiece?
  A rare show of objects from the Louvre will give Minneapolis museumgoers an opportunity to sharpen their vision.
  
• Miami Art Museum Director resigns
  The director of the Miami Art Museum has resigned, effective immediately.
  
• Modest Medicis at the Weisman
  Works amassed by a charming New York couple are now part of the Weisman's collection.
  
• Art: 'Afterword'
  Opening Saturday: Even at garage sales, detective stories and other pulp novels get little respect and less money.
  
• Corrections and clarifications
  The location of Linz, the town where Adolf Hitler grew up, was incorrect in a story on Page A1 on Friday. Linz is in Austria.
  
• Louvre show at MIA has Hitler's favorite painting
  Vermeer's masterpiece, was stolen by the Nazis for the Führer. This is the first time it has been shown in the U.S.
  
• Step right up
  Experimental art succeeds in two new shows at MCAD and Franklin Art Works.
  
• Spotlight: Denizens of the Witch Tree
  Opening tonight: In his ornate colored pencil drawings, Minneapolis artist Frank Big Bear has always mined his personal history and the Chippewa legends and tales he encountered growing up on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation.
  
• Review: "Winds" is fresh air
  Minnesota artists present wind-themed art in a surprising show at Gustavus Adolphus College.
  
• Review: Minnesota vistas and vignettes
  Two shows at Groveland Gallery celebrate Minnesota landscapes.
  

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