With staff cuts at the Cowles Center, the Southern Theater, and the Walker, Lightsey Darst asks, “Are dance curators a luxury we can’t afford? Does it matter?”

A look at the illusions and play on perspective in the two shows up in the MIA’s MAEP Galleries: Brett Smith’s cinephilic Superimposter and David Bowen’s trippy simulation of Lake Superior waves.

Andy Warhol in Minneapolis prompts a look by Nathaniel Smith at artist foundations—and a visit to a medium to chat with the late Prince of Pop Art.

A dispatch from Ragamala’s world premiere 1001 Buddhas: Voyage of the Gods, bharatanatyam dance and taiko drumming exploring Buddhism’s spread through Asia.

Painters Joe Smith and Ruben Nusz talk everything from self-help and primal gestures to blankets and childhood.

Connie Wanek chats with poet-turned-playwright Louis Jenkins and actor/director Mark Rylance about casting Nice Fish, which opens at the Guthrie in April.

Lightsey Darst visits a rehearsal for Zorongo Flamenco Dance’s Locas Mujeres y Mas/Mad Women and More, which opens March 8.

Sheila Regan reviews Nina Canell’s exhibition, Stray Warmings, at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis.

Confluence/Confluencia at the Duluth Art Institute aims to think about ways of portraying the currents and flows of the transparent atmospheres in which we live.