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• Photographer Chris Jordan qualifies the quantitative
  When we casually toss around words like millions and billions in conversation, it's difficult to visualize what those numbers actually represent. It's a challenge which for years has motivated photographer Chris Jordan.January 26, 2012
• Large-format photos come to life on small screen
  Famed for her large, sumptuous photographs which hang in art museums around the world, JoAnn Verburg is trying something much smaller.December 13, 2011
• The hidden messages of a Renaissance master
  Considered one of the greats of his time, Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer created iconic engravings and woodcuts in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It turns out the story behind the collection is as fascinating as the pictures themselves.October 14, 2011
• Norma Lyon, Iowa fair's 'butter cow lady,' dies
  Norma "Duffy" Lyon, whose life-size butter sculptures delighted Iowa state fairgoers for nearly half a century, has died. She was 81. Lyon was interviewed by MPR in 2005.June 28, 2011
• Slideshow: Canadian Classical Performers
  Classical MPR is here to enlighten you on some fine ensembles and performers from our neighbors to our north. Spend some time looking at our slideshow, listen to Alison's Morning Glories and with each host for great music from Canada!June 28, 2011
• Artist presents 'Scattered Lights' at the Northern Spark arts festival
  Northern Spark is a 'nuit blanche' or white night festival, running from dusk till dawn. It will feature hundreds of artists: performers, sculptors, and a host of others all with work designed to be seen at night.June 3, 2011
• Walker exhibit explores voyeurism as art
  Nowadays it seems cameras are everywhere and many people complain privacy is fast becoming a thing of the past. However a new exhibit at the Walker Art Center shows photographic invasions began not long after the invention of the camera itself.May 20, 2011
• Dashing war documentarian killed in Libya
  Tim Hetherington lived to bring the viewer painfully close to the raw and terrible truths of battle. That's how he died on Wednesday.April 20, 2011
• Birder aims to revolutionize nature guides
  Richard Crossley wants to revolutionize birding. The British author has developed the Crossley ID Guide. Instead of having one picture of each bird, it presents multiple images taken from different distances and angles in carefully designed photo spreads.March 8, 2011
• Steelroots sculpture show born of many challenges
  "Steelroots: Touching the Earth and Sky" doesn't officially open at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen until mid-April. However the 16 sculptures are already in place, and on view.March 8, 2011
• Sonic Architecture
  Sonic Architecture -- a collaboration between Classical Minnesota Public Radio and Cantus, Classical MPR's 2010-2011 Artists-in-Residence -- is a sound-based exploration of Minnesota's spaces. MPR cameras and microphones will venture into environments across Minnesota as each one is brought to life by the voices of a world-class vocal ensemble.February 8, 2011
• Titian, Veronese works come to Mpls. Institute of Arts
  A treasure trove of Renaissance Venetian painting opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts this weekend.February 3, 2011
• The Mourners arrive in Mpls. from the 15th century
  A group of foreign dignitaries arrives at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts this weekend. They're called "The Mourners" They are some three dozen alabaster figures carved for the tomb of a 15th century French Duke. The statues have caused a sensation at other stops on their U.S. tour.January 21, 2011
• In new book, photographer Leo Kim searches for peace in St. Paul
  Some prominent St. Paul residents say photographer Leo Kim has captured a sense of place about the city they love -- St. Paul. It's a surprising feat for a man who has spent most of his life looking for a place to call home.January 18, 2011
• Music with Minnesotans: Stuart Loughridge
  Saint Paul-based painter Stuart Loughridge uses classical music as inspiration when working, but also to solve artistic puzzles.November 3, 2010

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