With its proximity to Macalester College, this new Mediterranean grill seems poised to fulfill student cravings for falafel, gyros, and kebabs. Shish’s hummus ranks as some of the best in the city, and for under seven dollars, you can get this lemony spread with a generous portion of gyros—a nice deal for wallet-watchers. The Shish … Read more
Virtually unknown here, Morrisseau is revered in his native Canada. The influential Woodland style of painting he developed stemmed from an isolated childhood in northern Ontario, where he was inspired by petroglyphs and drawings on birchbark scrolls, but also cautioned by his elders against indulging his own visions. He eventually gave in to his artistic … Read more
Norsten is one of those Minneapolis painters whose many, quiet years spent with his nose to the grindstone are paying off with higher-profile recognition of late: a slot in the Whitney Biennial earlier this year and a new affiliation with a New York gallery. Some (okay, it’s those dealers in New York) associate Norsten and … Read more
Is there a seasonal approach to art, as there is to eating? If summer puts one in the mood for sprightly, challenging, out-there work from contemporary kids, does that make fall and winter best for cozying up to rich, impressive oils from long-dead Europeans? If so, then this traveling show hits our town at the … Read more
Put those thoughts about “wearable art ”—the tie-dyed caftans and bat-winged tunics made from elaborately loomed, jewel-colored fabrics—right out of your head. With artists like Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Yinka Shonibare, and The Art Guys, this exhibit is more like a bizarre, intellectualized version of Project Runway. Spanning five decades, its thirty-nine garments and other … Read more
After a fascinating show contrasting “official” and “dissident” works of art made in the former USSR, the Museum of Russian Art gets back to its strength: Russian realism that celebrates industry, agriculture, and the people of the motherland. What’s on view here shows a diversity of scenes and styles that many will find surprising. In … Read more
More and more, it’s looking like film buffs have to gaze across both oceans for their B-movie fix. A product of France and Georgia (not the Peach State, mind you), 13 (Tzameti) has already been gathering raves for its steely intensity and bold filmmaking. Gela Babluani’s film is the story of Sebastien, a down-on-his luck … Read more
Trend alert at the Walker: Kaves R kool! Last summer, young gun Cameron Jamie set up one as part of his survey at the museum; now there’s Cavemanman, from Jamie’s illustrious elder, Thomas Hirschhorn. It’s a retreat of sorts, albeit a chaotic one, papered with pages from all sorts of philosophical treatises and lots of … Read more
In the captivating Infamous, Toby Jones appears to have summoned forth the long-dead spirit of Truman Capote. He deftly portrays that storytelling dervish, delighting his high-society friends in New York and widening the peepers of the squares in Kansas with equal aplomb … and beating Alvin Dewey, the lead investigator of the Clutter killings, in … Read more
In basing his new film on the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs, Martin Scorsese brings a crew of tough-guy actors back to his own mean streets in New York. Perhaps he’s hoping for another round of Goodfellas-style success, but as his former stalwarts—from Keitel to Pesci—are apparently too old for this stuff, Marty’s left to … Read more