Art Museum

• Mantras: Paintings of Repetition
  Minneapolis Institute Of Arts   MapIt!
  2400 Third Ave. S Minneapolis 612/870-3000
  The exhibit features the transcendent works of artist Barbara Kreft. The luminous fields of color and meticulously layered and repeated dots and squares of Kreft's most recent "romantic minimalism" represent a major departure from her previous work,
  
• Memory of the Hand: Making Sense of Art Through Touch
  Minneapolis Institute Of Arts   MapIt!
  2400 Third Ave. S Minneapolis 612/870-3000
  The exhibit features sculptures by Rosalyn Driscoll, an artist who has created sculpture for those with limited or no vision. Her work will be displayed along with selected objects by other artists from the museum's collection. Visitors, sighted an
  
• Performance in the 1970s: Experiencing the Everyday
  Walker Art Center   MapIt!
  725 Vineland Pl. Minneapolis 612/375-7622
  Examine the history of performing arts and a new form that emerged during this period known as performance art. The performing arts and performance art both investigate everyday activities manifest in movement, ideas, sound, real-life experience, or
  
• Regards, Barry McGee
  Walker Art Center   MapIt!
  725 Vineland Pl. Minneapolis 612/375-7622
  San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee creates works directly on "found" surfaces ranging from the gallery wheels to steel printer's trays, from discarded bottles to scraps of paper mounted in thrift store frames. Entangled in a sea of floating hard
  
• The Artful Animal
  Minneapolis Institute Of Arts   MapIt!
  2400 Third Ave. S Minneapolis 612/870-3000
  The inter-departmental exhibition; subtitled 500 Years of Beasts, Birds, and Other Early Creatures; will examine animals as a theme in art from the 16th century to the present. More than 100 prints, drawings, watercolors, paintings, sculptures, book
  
• The Arts of Africa
  Minneapolis Institute Of Arts   MapIt!
  2400 Third Ave. S Minneapolis 612/870-3000
  The new Africa Galleries showcase African art in an appropriate historical and cultural context. The new galleries will provide five times more exhibit space than was available in the museum's previous gallery for African arts. More than 300 object
  
• The Collection Galleries
  Minnesota Museum Of American Art
  Landmark Center Gallery St. Paul 612/292-4355
  The Museum's Collection Galleries offer an in-depth look at many of America's noted artists, including those who have their roots in Saint Paul or the region. This unique and inviting display of original art by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and
  
• Tokaido Road: Gus Foster and Ando Hiroshige
  Minneapolis Institute Of Arts   MapIt!
  2400 Third Ave. S Minneapolis 612/870-3000
  In 1832 Ando Hiroshige traveled the Tokaido, a roadway linking the historic capital of Kyoto with the Shogun's court in Edo. Based on sketches made along the way, Hiroshige later created one of the world's most celebrated and artistically influentia