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  • Walter Anderson: Artist of the Wild
    A new exhibit at the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis takes an artistic look at the natural world through an eccentric man's eyes.November 8, 2005
  • The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment
    A Flash presentation about The Pulitzer Prize Photographs exhibt at the Minnesota History Center.October 13, 2005
  • Churches reflect Minnesota's history
    From one-room chapels to grand cathedrals, churches all over the state are part of Minnesota's landscape. Now nearly 100 of those churches are showcased in a new book, "Churches of Minnesota."October 12, 2005
  • Donovan Durham's 'Fantastic Print Show'
    One of the perks of being an artist is sometimes you get to name your own show. Painter and sketch artist Donovan Durham called his: "Donovan Durham's Fantastic Print Show." It turns out his life story is just as fantastic as his art.August 10, 2005
  • Painting with sound
    What do you do if one day you realize the job you've loved all your life isn't cutting it anymore? Here's the story of a man who changed his art, and how the art changed the man.August 1, 2005
  • The imaginary world of artist Margo Selski
    A Minnesota artist is gaining attention for paintings which harken back to a place and time that never existed.July 22, 2005
  • Rochester sculptor wins McKnight Distinguished Artist Award
    Rochester-based sculptor Judy Onofrio is the recipient of this year's Distinguished Artist Award from the McKnight Foundation. It's a huge honor and the list of past recipients reads like a who's who in the Minnesota art world including composer Dominick Argento and the writer Robert Bly. Onofrio says she's sill in shock.July 22, 2005
  • Chuck Close has big heads
    Chuck Close has a big head. In fact he has many big heads, in the form of portraits he's created over the last 40 years. And many of them are of a guy close to his own heart -- himself. This weekend the Walker Art Center opens a show of Close's self-portraits.July 21, 2005
  • The art of botany
    Botanical art is a tradition that goes back centuries. Despite the advent of digital photography, the documentation of plants by artists remains important to scientists.July 21, 2005
  • Capturing the rock moment
    There is nothing quite like the excitement of a great rock show. Even the best recording can't truly recapture the experience. But a new exhibit at the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis attempts to do just that. It's called "Musicapolis" and it presents 40 years of Twin Cities music history.July 20, 2005
  • Beautiful and meaningless
    Most artists admit art in its basic form is an egotistical process of self expression. Often they try to persuade viewers of certain political or spiritual or social messages. However an exhibit in Minneapolis features the work of an artist who says it's all beautiful, but completely meaningless.June 27, 2005
  • The art of taking someone's picture
    In these days of digital cameras that can fit in your pocket, photographer Alec Soth still likes to take photos the old-fashioned way. A collection of portraits taken by Soth is currently on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.June 16, 2005
  • "Barns of Minnesota" pays tribute to vanishing rural icons
    The old, wooden barns that once anchored family farms across Minnesota are slowly vanishing. The rise of agribusiness has made barns nearly obsolete. The new book "Barns of Minnesota" pays tribute to those rural icons.June 10, 2005
  • Apartment for rent
    Anyone who's ever moved out of an apartment knows there's a special, poignant look to the empty space they leave behind. A Minneapolis photographer has captured that moment in a new show called "Apartment for Rent."June 3, 2005
  • The moment before the storm
    A Sioux Falls artist pays tribute to the tenacity of the people and the drama of the tornado that struck Spencer, South Dakota seven years ago.May 30, 2005

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