Stage & Arts
While State Fair was canceled, the show goes on at its Fine Arts hall
While the State Fair was canceled, its Fine Arts show is alive and well.
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Science Museum of Minnesota welcomes back visitors with big changes for safety
Hit hard by the pandemic, the St. Paul hands-on museum set to reopen.
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New diverse art replaces 1930s murals in St. Paul Council Chambers
The four new pieces replace 1930s murals.
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Twin Cities' first live theater in months is a comedy/drama about mothers
Review: Two-character "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother" is first major play since March.
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Twin Cities galleries cautiously open their doors: 'We have to be ready for anything'
The job is more janitorial than curatorial: "We have to be ready for anything."
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Restored classic film from the '50s is a dreamy essay about jazz and summer
It's partly a concert film, but the dreamy "Jazz on a Summer's Day" often veers offstage.
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A staple of Minnesota summer, art fairs like Uptown have hit the pause button
But as art lovers mourn all the pandemic-forced cancellations, a Minneapolis fest bucks the trend.
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A St. Paul play was set to be the first major live theater in months. Then its director got COVID-19
The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company proves the show must go on.
Stage & Arts
Beset by debt, two St. Paul theater companies join forces to survive
Park Square and SteppingStone had been in talks before pandemic made their partnership urgent.
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Facing terminal cancer, Minneapolis artist Aldo Moroni is fighting to finish one last epic work
Facing terminal cancer, Minneapolis artist Aldo Moroni is still trying to finish one epic work.
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St. Paul's Penumbra gets a new name and a new mission: Promoting 'arts, racial equity and wellness'
The Penumbra Center for Racial Healing still will produce plays, but performing arts is becoming just one of three areas of focus.
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U of M's Northrop plans a return to live dance concerts in February
Fall season will mainly focus on virtual events.
Stage & Arts
Park Square's online play 'Riddle Puzzle Plot' is a snack for hungry theatergoers
Review: Park Square Theatre's "Riddle Puzzle Plot" plays out in four delightful socially distant episodes.
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Despite the pandemic, the show goes on in Medora, N.D.
A North Dakota road trip leads to relatively healthy Medora, where the summer performance season is still going strong.
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Eagan native and Tony nominee Laura Osnes booked for 'Murder'
Former Children's Theatre star will sing in streaming show "Murder Mystery Musical."
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Around the Region
- 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
- Artist and curators refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until cease-fire, hostage deal
Most Read
- Native American Art curator departs Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
- Firing at Mia sparks union accusations of toxic work environment
- 'Blended Harmony' at History Theatre unearths tuneful history of the first Asians on Broadway
- Review: Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays open in mountainous marathon
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