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.

With the latest edition of James Sewell Ballet’s annual Ballet Works Project, a willingness to take major risks with the choreography was on display.

Camille LeFevre reviews Rural Design, architect Dewey Thorbeck’s innovations in “design thinking” about sustainable rural planning.

In a twisted Valentine’s episode of the You Are Hear podcast, Richard Carr offers moody poems from a new sequence, “Dead Wendy,” read by Carr, host Brian Beatty and writer Darci Schummer.

Lightsey Darst profiles dancer Elayna Waxse: what happened when she lost her passion for ballet, found a new fire, and came back to dance in a way neither she nor anyone else ever expected.

Usually the rules of going to a gallery are simple: Don’t touch anything, don’t even get particularly close. But at the Walker’s The Living Years: Art after 1989, ways of seeing the art quickly get more complicated.

David Oppegaard’s third novel—a foray into the popular YA fantasy genre—was supposed to be his sellout work, until his publishing deal fell through. Here he offers a field guide to the shifting sands of the books business.

A week packed with dance—burlesque, avant garde, modern—prompts a question for Lightsey Darst: “How did these performances make me so want what they had to offer?”