by Mary Madden   December 20, 2004 An introduction and link to the new Pew Foundation study,”Artists, Musicians, and the Internet.” In a followup to our first sponsored ArtTalk, which featured panelists from the Pew Foundation on a panel discussing artists and technology, we present here a link to their study on how artists and musicians use the internet and how it affects their careers. Researchers for…

by Lightsey Darst   December 20, 2004 This year I decided to go in search of an old experience by seeing every Nutcracker in town. It turns out that there are quite a few, including touring shows, but I did make it to five, performed by Ballet Arts Minnesota (City Children�s Nutcracker), Minnetonka Dance Theatre, Minnesota Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theater (MDT), and Ethnic Dance Theatre. I got nothing but…

by mnartists.org   November 12, 2004 To: Michael Fallon: I am responding to the June 19th article: �The Doomed Artist,Part 1.� The artist profiled in your article is my mother, Sonia Gechtoff. She is an extraordinary woman of strength and integrity. At 78 and recovering fully from several operations in the last two years as well as the death of her husband last summer her energy is far from flagging. This…

by Kathleen Kvern   November 7, 2004 The member survey was an internet/web based only survey. We e-mailed the survey to over 5,000 mnartists.org members and also posted the survey on the site for one month. When reviewing the results of the survey it is important to keep in mind that the results are not representative of all mnartists.org members or mnartists.org users. A certain amount of bias can…

by Kim Surkan   November 1, 2004 Asked whether he considers himself more of a painter or a printmaker, Jon Neuse looks thoughtful for a moment. �Actually,� he says, �I do a lot of different things. I really think of myself primarily as an artist.� A glance around the studio that is located in his Kenwood home bears this out � art is everywhere: monotype prints, watercolors, drawings, small clay figures, and more…

by Jaime Kleiman   November 1, 2004 Jaime Kleiman investigates the persistent, unaccountable bias against women playwrights in mainstream theater. What’s going on, and why? Ladies and gentlemen, the top 10 most-produced plays of the upcoming season, as compiled by Benjamin Sampson in American Theatre magazine: 1. Take Me Out � Richard Greenberg 2. Anna in the Tropics � Nilo Cruz 3. Crowns � Regina Taylor 4. The…

by Geoffrey Sirc   October 28, 2004 On the back cover of its July 5, 2004, issue, published an advertisement for www.pleasevote.com, an internet site serving, in their words, as �a call to vote the Bush administration out of office.� The ad�s image, designed by Richard Serra, was simply a digitally reproduced copy of Goya�s painting , which had been altered so that Saturn now had George W. Bush�s head. The…

by Jeffrey Kalstrom   October 28, 2004 What can art do politically? This is a question that has long been primary for me. I changed my major from political economics to art in the fall of my senior year at St. Olaf College. I was working my way through developing a comparative study between the transition to democracy in France and in England. In a state of frustration over wading through absurd…

by Chris Godsey   October 19, 2004 Duluth musician Aaron Molina is hoping he can lull you to sleep this weekend. He�s got a plan for doing so, too�13 hours of sedative music played by some of his favorite artists, including A Whisper in the Noise, Cloud Cult, the April Seconds, Alan Sparhawk of Low, and Paul Metzger of TVBC and GST. Slumber Duluth—”An All Night Music Show to Sleep To”—starts at 7 p.m…