Currents of Change: Art and Life Along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861

If American history makes your mouth water and the James J. Hill House turns you on, then prepare for still more fantasies fulfilled at the MIA’s latest exhibit. Currents showcases about a hundred and fifty objets d’art, from paintings and photographs to furniture and silver, all hailing from Mississippi River regions in the 1850s. That was when the river was cresting in terms of productivity, with the milling industry clinging to its banks and river steamboats shouting their final hurrahs before railroad companies reoriented the nation east-to-west instead of north-to-south. The exhibit’s centerpiece is a 340-foot panorama of the Mississippi, an enormous moving theatrical display presented in the same way folks gazed upon it in the days when Longfellow was still working on his first draft of “Song of Hiawatha.” (612) 870-3131; www.artsmia.org


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