The Full Gamut

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STYLE Joynoelle If you enjoy local fashion, then surely you’ll be interested to know that local designer Joy Teiken (a.k.a. Joynoelle, see her creation at right) celebrates the opening of her Minneapolis-based boutique and atelier this eve. How very throwback of her, no? The reception lasts from five to eight p.m. The digs? You’ll find … Read more

A cigar, a long tunnel, and King Triton's castle. . . .

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Now this. My good friend and loyal reader, Schneider, sent the photo above in response to my October 11 Jug O’ Wine entry about unexpected bottle shapes. Hmmmmmmm. Now, maybe I’ve just taken too many film theory classes (Am I, by the way, the only person in America who believes Die Hard was a romance … Read more

Count Down From 100 With The Movies

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The Guardian Unlimited film blogs are hailing this as the greatest YouTube clip of all time. I don’t know about that, but it is fecking cool: counting down from 100 using classic movie clips. How many can you name?

Art Market: Green by All Means

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How many ways do artists have of being green? Lots of ways, from viridian paint to recycled materials to evoking in us a love for the natural world. Here are just a few of the green arts growing on mnartists.org; head to the website for many more. Terry Genesen-Becker, Dream, Couch, Interior; Watercolor; 23" x … Read more

Art Market: Buying Futures

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Graduates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design have been changing the world you see since 1886. Names from its lengthy roster of notable alums include Wanda Gag, the brilliant children’s book illustrator who graduated in 1917, when the institution was known as the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts; the New York School painter … Read more

After Watching Carlos Saura’s Film of Lorca’s “Blood Wedding”

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  Your wife had left you post-diagnosis yet here you were this night stumbling on fire with dance and blood, a retired high school Spanish teacher, now learning the new syntax of multiple sclerosis. It burned from your hands and feet, the castanets, the dark mole on the flamenco dancer’s cheek, All the broken stomping, … Read more

Zoom In: Richard C. Johnson

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Richard Johnson’s photos of weathered storefronts, thrift-store castoffs, and tattered religious iconography in northern Minnesota serve as an astute chronicle of the erosion of small Midwestern towns. He grew up in Cloquet, which he describes as “an OK place,” one with “a slightly higher-than-average number of churches as well as per-capita consumption of distilled spirits, … Read more

Window on the World

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Brave New Worlds, up through February 17 at the Walker Art Center, considers "the present state of political consciousness, expressed through the questions of how to live, experience, and dream." The seventy works by twenty-four artists from seventeen countries were organized by Walker curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond; 10,000 arts spoke to Chong about … Read more

In Review: Face of the World

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Michael Fallon on Anastylosis: Drawings by Mary Griep, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Mary Griep’s work begins with wishfulness. The title of this exhibition, "Anastylosis," is a reconstruction technique in which a ruined archeological monument is restored after careful study, using original architectural elements whenever possible as well as supposition and guesswork when necessary. … Read more