As temperatures cool, leaves begin to change color (and immediately fall), and calls for “winter” art pop-up on our News and Opps board over at mnartists.org, I fear the inevitable: winter in Minnesota is coming.  However, there are a few Minnesotan happenings of late that are warming my heart and/or…

• “Women hold slightly more than half (52.3 percent) of creative class jobs and their average level of education is almost the same as men,” writes Richard Florida. “But the pay they receive is anything but equal. Creative class men earn an average of $82,009 versus $48,077 for creative class women. This $33…

• UNESCO – the UN body that maintains World Heritage sites, among other activities – will lose a quarter of its budget after the U.S. announced it wouldn’t pay its dues following a vote by 107 nations to accept Palestine as a member. • “The idea of ‘beauty’ represents the unexamined terminology of utopian…

Kris Martin, Still alive, 2010, silver-plated bronze Installation shot from The Quick and the Dead For 2009′s exhibition The Quick and the Dead, Kris Martin created a piece that involved burying a human skeleton somewhere on the Walker’s grounds. Where is it? To find the location of the skeleton, follow the coordinates printed on the official certificate. Where did we get the skeleton? It was donated…