Stage & Arts
Minneapolis artist regains faith after defamation lawsuit win
A Minneapolis dancer hopes winning defamation suit helps get her career back on track.
Music
Minnesota Opera delivers shallow, hollow 'Italian Straw Hat'
REVIEW: A little-known work by "Godfather" composer Nino Rota proves fatally frivolous.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities actors turn to 'intimacy directors' to choreograph sexuality on stage
A new theater movement insists intimacy should be as well orchestrated as violence.
Stage & Arts
St. Paul filmmaker hits Slamdance with Britney Spears-inspired satire where 'actors' are dolls
Nicole Brending has won a spot at the Slamdance fest for her outrageous feminist pop-star critique "Dollhouse."
Stage & Arts
Italian director will talk about his movies – and his terrors – in Minneapolis
Director Luca Guadagnino is bringing four films to the Walker for a conversation. Just don't call it a retrospective.
Stage & Arts
Video of veterans at Minneapolis museum delivers a shell shock to the system
Wartime memories take on a life of their own in an hourlong film at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Music
Budget British take on 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' imported to Children's Theatre in Minneapolis
After 20 years, "Mr. Popper's Penguins" returns to the Children's Theatre as a cut-rate British production.
Stage & Arts
Gloria Estefan musical is flawed, but brings Minnesotans some much needed Miami heat
Broadway's Gloria Estefan musical arrives at a cold time in Minnesota.
Stage & Arts
Guthrie Theater's basketball-themed 'The Great Leap' is too cluttered to prevail
At least the actors give plenty of assists in this basketball-themed comedy/drama.
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Pop-up gallery in Minneapolis skyway offers taste of Berlin's hot art scene
German sponsors are behind an unusual pop-up gallery in downtown Minneapolis.
Stage & Arts
Twin Cities performing artists face 'space crunch' as venues close
The closing of key venues has Twin Cities theater and dance artists scrambling for places to perform.
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First trial begins in new lawsuits arising from Children's Theatre scandal
Alleging she was sexually assaulted in 1983, Laura Stearns sued CTC and its ex-teacher Jason McLean.
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Around the Region
- Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
- Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi wins Spanish Asturias award for communication
- Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show
- Repatriated South African apartheid-era artworks on display to celebrate 30 years of democracy
- A portrait by Gustav Klimt has been sold for $32 million at an auction in Vienna
- Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
- Maurizio Cattelan, Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women's prison
- Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson confronts history at US pavilion as its first solo Indigenous artist
- Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
- A painting of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work he hated is up for auction
Most Read
- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Prairie Island Indian Community requests the return of 'Mankato Hanging Rope'
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre unearths tuneful history of the first Asians on Broadway
- Walker Art Center debuts major exhibition by 1980s art star Keith Haring
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