State of the Arts Blog

April 22, 2010 11:41 AM

Minnesota Historical Society director stepping down

Nina Archabal is leaving the MHS after serving it for 33 years, 23 of them as the society's director.

by Marianne Combs

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April 22, 2010 6:35 AM

Off to join the circus

Actor/director Noah Bremer is running away to join the circus... Cirque du Soleil, that is.

by Marianne Combs

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April 22, 2010 3:25 AM

Art Hounds: New Music, StevenBe, Speech

The hounds track down forward thinking classical music in Duluth, a fashion forward knitting wizard in Minneapolis, and some polished public speakers at the state high school speech tourney.

by Chris Roberts

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April 21, 2010 3:14 PM

Your weekend outlook: panoramic

A landscape photography show, high fashion and the St. Paul arts crawl await on the horizon.

by Marianne Combs

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April 21, 2010 9:15 AM

An Irish poet on American literature

Irishman Theo Dorgan is in town this week to receive the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas.

by Marianne Combs

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April 21, 2010 4:33 AM

MIA Curator Bob Jacobsen resigns

The curator responsible for bringing the MIA's Asian Art collection to national prominence steps down.

by Marianne Combs

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April 20, 2010 1:59 PM

Jungle Theater postpones play opening

Sudden surgery for one of the actors in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" stalls the show's opening.

by Marianne Combs

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April 20, 2010 9:23 AM

Fred Gaines, playwright and teacher, dies

A former pillar of the Children's Theatre Company has passed.

by Marianne Combs

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April 20, 2010 9:22 AM

Positive fall-out: Archie Fisher still here

The Scottish folksinging legend is stranded here so plays a little more

by Euan Kerr

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April 20, 2010 5:26 AM

The power of a photograph

Jonathan Klein, the head of Getty Images, looks back on some of the photographs that changed history.

by Marianne Combs

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