Get a sneak peek at the new gallery hosted by Altered Esthetics, which presents thought provoking artwork in response to global and socio-political topics.
Catch the
largest comprehensive retrospective ever of influential American photographer
Lee Friedlander's work. This exhibit, originally
organized by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York, is
at the MIA.
In
the early 1900s, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was hired by Tsar Nicholas
II to conduct an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire. See his work at The Museum of Russian Art.
Fashioned is an
exploration of the various ways in which identity and
persona are
“fashioned” through clothes, tattoos, and other personal effects.
The
exhibit—featuring the work of six photographers—runs May 3–July 13 at the
Minnesota Center for
Photography.
Spiritual America, a show organized by Guggenheim curator Nancy
Spector, is at
the Walker Art Center and, according to the Walker’s chief curator,
Philippe Vergne, includes a surprise—the premiere of a new sculpture
completed in January.
John C. Weber's collection of Japanese art and
artifacts is believed to be the most complete collection outside of the archipelago. The entire collection will be showing at the MIA February 24–May 25.
Photographer Paul Shambroom’s new exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum,
Picturing Power, involves aspects of power—economic, political, military—through featuring images of people, places, and things that
exert an influence
on our daily lives.
Moorhead businessman and collector Frederick B. Scheel
donated his photography
collection
to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The collection is so
extensive the MIA is exhibiting the
collection in two installments, the second of which, Search to See
II, is on
display through March 30.
Don’t call Tino Sehgal a performance artist and definitely don’t call his work
theater or dance—or anything related to the traditional stage for that matter.
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