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Visual Arts

• Crazy Horse memorial turns 60 this year
  The Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota marks its 60th anniversary this month. When complete, it will be the world's largest sculpture.June 3, 2008
• Junk meets art to play golf
  This weekend, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis launches a summerlong celebration of the 20th anniversary of its sculpture garden. There will be exhibits, a huge "Rock the Garden" concert, and a brand new mini-golf course. Fourteen teams of designers, architects, painters, sculptors and other creative types each built green-themed holes.May 22, 2008
• The MIA hails the RNC
  The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has announced it will mount a special exhibition later this summer design to draw in attendees to the Republican National Convention.May 21, 2008
• Minneapolis artist adds new dimensions to his landscapes
  After years of building a following for his striking landscapes Minneapolis, painter Gregory Euclide is trying something else.May 14, 2008
• A life behind the lens
  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, May 7, 2008
• August Sander: Father of modern portrait photography
  An exhibition of the work of portrait photographer August Sander is now on display at the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.March 23, 2008
• The man who invented appropriation
  Painter and sculptor Richard Prince is famed in the art world for taking other people's work and presenting it as his own.March 21, 2008
• Abstract painter sees stripes
  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.February 29, 2008
• What our masks reveal about ourselves
  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.February 29, 2008
• Revisioning the suburbs
  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.February 14, 2008
• Art and leadership
  The Twin Cities' newest museum directors share their vision for their respective and very different art centers.Midmorning, February 12, 2008
• Kaywin Feldman looks to the MIA's future
  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.January 24, 2008
• Is photography a dying art form?
  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, January 24, 2008
• Twin Cities native finds the connection between her uncle and Andy Warhol
  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."January 17, 2008
• Exploring democracy and citizenship through art
  What exactly does art have to do with democracy?January 11, 2008

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