This week on State of the Arts, we're talking about art snobbery. Plus, seed art, religious institutions exhibiting art and we'll find out what exactly qualifies as power pop.
Arts Snobs
Have you ever felt like the people running or attending an art event look down their noses at you? Many people feel intimidated or turned off by those who consider themselves experts on a particular art. Is there an air of snobbery to the arts community, and does this effect how you view art? Or do we need the snobs around to keep the standards up? We'll take your calls and e-mails about art snobs.
You are an art snob if:
- The colors of your concert-going wardrobe are so dark that you need a flashlight to approach your closet.
- You use diminutive forms of an artist's name - "Misha" for Mikhail Baryshnikov, for instance - even if you've never met them.
- The words "deconstruction," "jejune" or "post-modern" have ever come out of your mouth.
- You've ever groused about the quality of the Brie or Chardonnay at an opening-night gala.
- Any sort of conversation of popular art gives you an instant nasal infection that causes you to sniff with incessant self-importance
- You bemoan the fact that "no one dresses for the theater anymore."
- A friendly discussion about the relative merits of the first quarto of "Hamlet" versus the second has erupted into a fistfight.
- You spend more time scoping out the audience than paying attention to what's going on on the stage.
- You go to a "bistro" before an opening night instead of a restaurant.
- You've ever used the expression "Pearls before swine" to describe anything except actual pearls before actual swine.
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The Seed Lady on display
A new show featuring the works of Minnesota legend Lillian Colton opens Friday at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She's known to thousands as the Seed Lady. Now at age 93, Colton's seed portraits will receive their first museum showing on walls typically home to works by old masters.
God's art
Many great art collections are tucked away in various houses of worship throughout the Twin Cities. Churches and temples use the art to inspire and educate their congregations. But the collections add new wrinkles to the already complex business of collecting art.
Terry Eason
Prolific Minnesota singer-songwriter is releasing a new CD, “Bees Will Bumble” and heading to the International Pop Overthrow in Los Angeles next week. We'll talk to him about what exactly qualifies as power pop.
Chainsaw sculptures from Russell L. Ehart, Sr.
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Free Range Film Festival
- The address of the big old barn is 909 Cty. Rd. 4. Here's how to get there.
From Duluth:
Travel south on I-35. Take Exit 239. Head south on Highway 45 through Carlton. Through no fault of your own, Highway 45 transforms itself into County Road 1. Take County Road 1 through Wrenshall and beyond to the intersection with County Road 4. Take a right and look for the barn.
From Minneapolis:
Travel north on I-35. Take Exit 227. Head east on County Road 4. Follow the signs to Wrenshall until just before you get to the intersection with County Road 1. The barn will be waiting there for you.
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