Reviews – Page 5 – Mn Artists

1Fidencio Fifield-Perez, dacament, 2016-present. Courtesy Night Club.

Places, Portals, and How to Look Wrong

Christina Schmid

An episodic journey through this summer’s art offerings in the Twin Cities, including exhibitions at Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Form + Content, HAIR + NAILS, David Petersen Gallery, Night Club, and Dreamsong

1Ayana V. Jackson, Consider the Sky and the Sea, 2019. Take Me to the Water Series. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.

We Fly: On Black Aliveness in A Picture Gallery of the Soul

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

Reflections on a landmark exhibition of Black American photography: on Black vernacular culture, its visual complexity and expansiveness, and the tie between collective consciousness and self-love

1Production photo from Mill City Summer Opera's Sweeney Todd, in the Mill City Museum's Ruin Courtyard through July 24. Photo: Dan Norman

Design Performing Arts

7-20-2016

Wrath and Ruin (With Singing)

Camille LeFevre

1Vance Gellert, Encyclopedia with bullet holes and hematite, Coleraine. On view in the exhibition Iron Country, at the Tweed Museum in Duluth.

Moving Image Visual Art

7-14-2016

Well Beyond Lake Wobegon

Tim White

1Ryan/Laidlaw, Epidemagogue (detail). Photo courtesy of the author

Moving Image Visual Art

5-12-2016

Perchance to Dream

Sheila Regan

4-13-2016

A Voice So Absurdly Truthful

Tim Nolan

1Mark Morris Dance Group performing Dido and Aeneas. Photo: Hilary Scott, courtesy of Northrop

Performing Arts

4-12-2016

Remembrance of Things Past, Revived for the Present

Camille LeFevre

Literature Visual Art

3-17-2016

Shawna Gilmore’s Peaceable Kingdom

Tim White

1Amanda Curreri, Calm Lunatics, 2015. Rabbit skin glue and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Romer Young Gallery. The exhibition, The Calmest of Us Would Be Lunatics, is at the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minn. January 22 through May 8, 2016.

Moving Image Visual Art

3-15-2016

Terrible Beauty in a Flawed System

Suzanne Szucs

3-1-2016

The Music in the Fire

Sheila Packa

1David Ruhlman, In a House of Healing (Wasp's Nest I). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Saint Germain.

2-23-2016

A Pile of Random Sweepings

Mary Coyne

1Andrea Büttner, Piano, 2013. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. © Andrea Büttner / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014

Moving Image Visual Art

1-15-2016

Caught in a Bad Romance

Christina Schmid

1Nate Young, Untouched no. 2, 2014. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Performing Arts Visual Art

1-6-2016

What You Can’t See

Andrea Carlson

1Brian Frink, Memory of Water/Star Reflection, oil on canvas, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

12-15-2015

What Constitutes “American” Art?

Sheila Regan