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Hamilton Loomis Famous Dave's BBQ and Blues Fri., August 29, 9:00pm Minneapolis (South)
Galveston native Hamilton Loomis is nominally a blues guitarist who absorbed sage advice and picking tips from the likes of Bo Diddley, Albert Collins, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. But even a cursory listen to Loomis's 2007 CD Ain't Just Temporary (Blind Pig) reveals a multidimensional artist... More >>
The Root of All Evil Memorial Metal Massacre First Avenue Fri., August 29, 4:30pm Minneapolis (Downtown)
Benefit names don't get any better than this. Earl Root was the gold standard of individuality, and his memory deserves a hundred nights of music like this. It was an overwhelmingly sad day for the large music community of Minneapolis when the host of KFAI's long-running Root of All Evil show... More >>
Before the Teardown Mill City Museum Daily from Thu., May 8 until Sun., August 31 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With all due respect to the crop of sleek, soaring skyscrapers clumped in downtown Minneapolis, there were some pretty cool buildings around downtown before the rise of glass and steel constructions. In 1960, the Star Tribune realized that the stone and brick buildings that had filled the... More >>
Civicfest Minneapolis Convention Center Fri., August 29, 9:30am-9:00pm
more dates/times 		Minneapolis (Downtown)
CivicFest is a great, big, sloppy kiss for the executive branch of the federal government. And what better time than during the Republican National Convention? The thorough history of the leaders of the free world is displayed at CivicFest, complete with an exhibit of presidential china through... More >>
Derive 2 Open Eye Figure Theatre Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., August 21 until Sat., August 30, 8:00pm Minneapolis (South)
The Republican National Convention is upon us, so there's no better time to consider Samuel Beckett's short play What Where, which references torture and unexplained disappearances. For Dérive 2, Flaneur Productions has invited Jim Bovino, Bedlam Theater's John Bueche, HIJACK, and the... More >>
Design For the Other 90% Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Daily from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7 Suburbs
According to the press release for this show, 90 percent of the world's population, or 5.8 billion people, have no access (or sparse access) to products and services we take for granted. And while internet service and hearing-aid batteries are among the luxuries included in this list, the lack... More >>
From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2 St. Paul (Greater)
All the cool kids might think their Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars are just hip canvas shoes. Ditto for Technicolor Nike Air Force Ones. But to the well-trained designer's eye, these kicks mark a significant departure in our fashion history: the idea that clothes designed to be worn for sports... More >>
Friedlander Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sun., June 29 until Sun., September 14 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Currently, Father Duffy's ornate grave and statue cower under the neon command of a Coke advertisement. The once-marvelous monument to a man has been reduced to an obstruction blocking sightlines to an array of billboards and soaring buildings. That's the scene in one of photographer Lee... More >>
Hindsight is Always 20/20 Weisman Art Museum Theatre Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4 Minneapolis (Downtown)
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>
Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Sat., August 2 until Sun., September 21 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >>
History Room: 20 Years of No Name The Soap Factory Daily from Sat., April 19 until Sun., October 26 Minneapolis (North & Northeast)
A lot has changed over the past 20 years. We've gone through three presidents. Macs became cool, then lame, then cool again. Alternative music became corporatized, then turned into emo. A lot has changed over the years for the Soap Factory as well. One of the oldest galleries in the Twin Cities... More >>
Jimmy Pardo Acme Comedy Co. Daily from Tue., August 26 until Sat., August 30, 8:00pm
more dates/times 		Minneapolis (Downtown)
It's an election year, but comedian Jimmy Pardo can't seem to get into it. "I donated money to Obama's camp so I could get a free bumper sticker for my car," he says. "That's about as political as I've gotten." Though he's done a few jokes on the subject, his heart just isn't in it. "Maybe I'm... More >>
Mayumi Amada: Misc Gage Family Art Gallery Daily from Fri., July 18 until Fri., September 5 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Mayumi Amada might be the best-known artist in the state working in the doily medium. She's created works based entirely on the cloth knickknacks, including an installation of four- to nine-foot-wide doilies floating in water as homage to her grandmothers, who taught her how to crochet. Other... More >>
Mike Elko; Ruthann Godollei: Unconventional Wisdom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts Daily from Fri., August 29 until Sun., October 26 Minneapolis (Downtown)
With three concurrent political art shows, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has made itself the epicenter of political expression during the Republican National Convention. The shows all explore the endless ways in which artists past and present have shown support or disapproval for our... More >>
Walker On the Green: Artist Designed Miniature Golf Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 24 until Sun., September 7, 10:00am-8:00pm Suburbs
Walker Art Center's two brand-new, seven-hole mini golf courses aren't your average putt-putt experience. They don't have oversize windmill blades covering the tunnel to the hole, or any other mini golf clichés. Artists designed the holes around the theme "Green," and were given the... More >>
Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fairgrounds Daily from Thu., August 21 until Sun., August 31, 6:00am-12:00am
more dates/times 		St. Paul (Greater)
It's the world's strangest Pavlovian experiment: Place Minnesota residents in the vicinity of massive quantities of manure, claustrophobia-inducing crowds, and spinning Midway rides, and their mouths immediately begin watering for food on a stick. In addition to the old standbys (Machinery... More >>
Poster Offensive 4 Black Dog Coffee And Wine Bar Daily from Fri., August 15 until Mon., September 15 St. Paul (Downtown)
If you think back to the sophisticated décor of your college dorm room, you probably had at least one sweet-ass poster taped to your wall. Maybe it was the "Periodic Table of Mixology," or it might have been the one with John Belushi in his COLLEGE sweater, a poster of Bob Marley smoking... More >>
Richard Prince: Spiritual America Walker Art Center Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 14 until Sun., September 14 Minneapolis (Downtown)
Can an artist simultaneously celebrate and critique pop culture? Those familiar with the incredibly varied work of Richard Prince have seen appropriation, pop culture, and cultural criticism battle it out over the span of his 30-year career. His medium of expression varies greatly, from... More >>
Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12 Minneapolis (Downtown)
At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >>
The Lion, the Witch, and the War Hero: Or Is McCain Able? Brave New Workshop Theatre Every week Friday from Fri., July 25 until Fri., November 7, 8:00pm
more dates/times 		Minneapolis (South)
If you're old enough to remember the post-convention presidential campaign between Michael Dukakis and pere Bush, you can recall how a seemingly can't-miss candidate can be brought down by a fangs-bared campaign of savage ridicule and schoolyard character assassination. (And if you are indeed... More >>
The Lost Empire: Photographer to the Tsar The Museum Of Russian Art Daily from Mon., May 5 until Wed., October 1 Minneapolis (South)
If there is one thing to be said about Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, it's that he was ambitious. He was a chemist and photographer who merged his passions by designing a camera and method to view black-and-white negatives in color. At the beginning of the 20th century, he took... More >>
The One Show: Advertising + Design + Interactive MCAD Gallery Daily from Sun., August 24 until Wed., September 24 Minneapolis (Downtown)
MCAD's "The One Show" is like the anti-Superbowl, or the antithesis to the increasingly mundane annual British Television Advertising Awards at the Walker. The last two offer a place for humorous and slightly weird TV ads. "The One Show," on the other hand, showcases ads that are creative,... More >>
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Altered Esthetics Daily from Thu., July 31 until Sat., August 30 Minneapolis (North & Northeast)
It's true that the revolution may not be televised, but I suspect it will be well-documented nonetheless. Much like the sentiments captured in the song by Gil Scott-Heron of the same name, actual shifts in civil rights movements, both locally and globally, often occur in pavement cracks too... More >>
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