Minnesota native Annie Griffiths Belt joined National Geographic magazine 30 years ago as one of the youngest photographers, and one of a few women. She talks about how she breaks down the barriers between photographer and subject. One detail -- she never carries a camera bag. (Midmorning, 05/07/2008)

An exhibition of the work of portrait photographer August Sander is now on display at the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis. (03/23/2008)

Painter and sculptor Richard Prince is famed in the art world for taking other people's work and presenting it as his own. (03/21/2008)

Sean Scully is one of the most respected abstract artists in the world. For the last 35 years he's explored just one shape: the stripe. This weekend the Minneapolis Institute of Arts opens a show of Scully's prints. Scully believes there is more to his stripes than meets the eye. (02/29/2008)

A Minneapolis photographer uses an ancient art form to get her subjects to examine their inner selves. Barbara Cummard leads workshops where people make face masks revealing something about who they are on the inside, which she then captures on film. (02/29/2008)

The American suburb has been revered as a middle class utopia. It's also been ridiculed as a vast expanse of architectural monotony and social conformity. The truth is more complex. (02/14/2008)

The Twin Cities' newest museum directors share their vision for their respective and very different art centers. (Midmorning, 02/12/2008)

The state's two internationally known art museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center, are launching new eras under new leadership. (01/24/2008)

Photographers used to depend on film and dark rooms to create images that enlightened and challenged viewers. In the digital age, some photographers find themselves rethinking the way they express themselves. (Midmorning, 01/24/2008)

Minneapolis native Esther Robinson discovered by chance that her uncle was at the center of one of the most exciting times in American art history. Now she's telling his story in her film, "A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory." (01/17/2008)

What exactly does art have to do with democracy? (01/11/2008)

There's an old joke about a gallery visitor sitting down to rest weary feet, only to be sternly told to get off the sculpture. There will be no such confusion at the Functional Sculpture exhibit at Carleton College in Northfield. (01/11/2008)

St. Paul's JoAnn Verburg says she's awful at taking family snapshots. Which is a little strange, because Verburg's art photographs, which often feature her husband, are in museum collections around the country. A retrospective of her work opens at the Walker Art Center this weekend. (01/10/2008)

Imagine a portrait that showed not only who you are, but where you came from hundreds of generations ago through your unique genetic code. (01/02/2008)

Bill Carlson was 17 years old when he got a press pass to photograph the Beatles during their one and only show in Minnesota. Few of those photos saw the light of day until recently, when Carlson decided to publish them in a book called "The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland." (12/21/2007)