Difficult Questions: One View of Twin Cities

Difficult Questions: One View of Twin Cities

by | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog

Guest post by Eric Asboe As a curatorial department of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program (MAEP) is “dedicated to exhibiting and supporting artists living and working in the state of Minnesota.” Begun in 1975,...
From the Curb in Milwaukee: Imagination Giants

From the Curb in Milwaukee: Imagination Giants

by | Jun 12, 2013 | Blog

  After a year-and-a-half of writing about more basic cultural differences between New York and Milwaukee, the results of my cultural reconnaissance will now take the form of local art coverage. This being the first piece, I’d like to mention that, unlike NYC...
Proximities: An Interview with Glen Helfand

Proximities: An Interview with Glen Helfand

by | Jun 12, 2013 | Blog

Four years ago when I moved to San Francisco, I would have never predicted that one day I would be interviewing Glen Helfand.  In 2009, when I asked a classmate of mine at San Francisco Art Institute, “do you know Glen Helfand,” she responded, “oh...
Comics & the Aesthetic Economy

Comics & the Aesthetic Economy

by | Jun 11, 2013 | Blog

Guest Post by Faye Kahn¹ While social evidence that the rich is dividing farther away from the poor becomes more & more unavoidable, it seems that at the same time the art world is inversely nudging the them closer together. Traditional distinctions between...