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10: The week in local art and other bits of interest

mnartists.blog

I have been a bad blogger. I think everyone has good intentions and high aspirations when they start blogging….particularly as to frequency. I tend to over-think things…everything simple turns into a long (and probably uninteresting project). So in an effort to create more frequent posts and compelling reading, I am starting a new series of blog posts. Each week I am going to pick 10 things, mostly…

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30 years ago: William Burroughs at the Walker

Field Guide

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” “Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ first reading at the Walker Art Center, on October 24, 1979. The Walker would…

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Up goes the London flat from “Walworth Farce”

The Green Room

Performing Arts staffer Emily Taylor stopped by the McGuire Theater yesterday as stagehands from the Druid Ireland theater company built the set for tonight’s opening of The Walworth Farce. It’s unusual to see a detailed representation of everyday life on this stage — take a look at those authentically grimy sinks — but Enda Walsh’s play is anything but mundane. The Walworth Farce has been getting…

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Flitting Species Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole

Centerpoints

My father and I went “city birding” to see the surprising ways wildlife dovetails with the urban environment. In May and then in October, we wandered the grounds of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, then migrated to Loring Park, and concluded our observations perched atop the Walker’s green slope. Here is a bird’s-eye-view of the territory we covered. My father and I went “city birding” to see the…

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Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata

Centerpoints

Today, I ponder death. I am thinking of life’s inevitable end because it is gray and I have just returned from Paris and feel the demise of my own vacation, acutely (and remember some vain and heroic graves in Pere Lachaise cemetary that now lie in ruins or are forgotten.) I am also thinking of death in relation to my lost compatriot, the poet Sekou Sundiata, whose life and work we celebrate and…

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Art(ists) on the Verge 2: Grants for new media artists in minnesota

Media Lab

Minneapolis-based Northern Lights.mn has announced the second year of Ar(ists) on the Verge: Northern Lights announces a second round of Art(ists) on the Verge commissions (AOV2). AOV2 is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based…

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Bdote Film Project

Teens Blog

Hello I’m Robert Deloria, and I’m starting my next short film project. My film is about the Minnesota and Mississippi River and the significance it has to the Dakota people, and the events that took place around the river’s during The dakota war of 1862 which ended with the mass execution of thirty-eight dakota people on December 26, 1862. Bdote translates into ‘where they meet’ which refers to the…

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Make Something Wild for Our Contest!

Field Guide

I adore the book Where the Wild Things Are! I’m also a big fan of the film’s blog We Love You So and their amazing contests including fort building. We were so inspired that we’ve created a contest of our own using the website ArtsConnectEd. We gathered works from the Walker and Minneapolis Institute of Arts to create a special art collector set to get you inspired. Now go out and make mischievous…

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Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life

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I happened upon filmmaker Astra Taylor and her documentary Examined Life at the Women with Vision festival last spring and found myself a huge fan of the film, and I became intrigued by her bio, particularly the fact that she was unschooled until age 13. From what I know about unschooling, it’s very similar to the artist’s life. You wake up each day guided by the question ‘what do I want to learn…