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Weekend Arts Roundup for 7/29-8/1

Posted at 8:59 AM on July 29, 2010 by Steve Seel

From our arts reporter Marianne Combs:

If you've never been persuaded to check out an art gallery before, this is the weekend to overcome your inhibitions. There's a little something for just about everyone on offer at galleries all over the Twin Cities.

Tarnish and Gold Gallery presents "The Art of Conflict: Identity in War and Displacement," featuring artwork by both Iraqis and Americans provoked/inspired by the war in Iraq. Organized by the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project, with an opening reception tonight from 7-10pm.

Now in its third consecutive year, Artery Twenty Ten offers performances by more than 22 artists over a series of four evenings at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. The original premise of "Artery" was inspired by similarities between civic circulatory systems (roads, travel, city planning) and our own physical systems.

Fascinated by the Steampunk movement? Stevens Square Park presents "The New Antiquarians," an artistic ode to this imagined alternate fallout from the Industrial Age. The exhibition features a "Cabinet of Curiosities" of retro-futurist paintings; steampunk sculptures; a memory quilt and miniature catacombs made from cast-off, salvaged, and recycled materials.

Want to feel like an in-the-know hipster? Every few months Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin open their house in New London, to present a one day artist installation to the public. This Saturday they are hosting Karl Unnasch, who is transforming found/given objects into works of art.

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