The west-end walls of the Regis Center for Art are most often reserved for temporary exhibition space, student experimentation, and classwork displays. Tables and chairs are usually occupied by undergraduates — either rushing to finish assignments or fitting in a few zzz’s before class. The lighting is dim, the halls are drafty, and if it’s critique week, tensions are high. That was simply not the case during the month of February. For 18 glorious days, the walls of Regis were…

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This upcoming Saturday, WAM opens its “summer show”, an annual seasonal focus on Minnesota artists represented in the museum’s permanent collection.  The title of the exhibit, Tenuous, Though Real, is from a description of Minnesota artists written by art historian Rena Neumann Cohen in her 1976 book, Minnesota Painting and Sculpture from 1820 to 1914.  Cohen comments that the artists of our state have a “tenuous, though real sense of shared experience–an identification, however fleeting, with the Minnesota scene.” When…

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        Minnesota has no shortage of roadside attractions, including sculptures of monumental scale. Third in a series of photo-posts inspired by A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota, published in 1977 as a supplement to University Gallery’s Bicentennial exhibition The Art and Architecture of Minnesota, this post is dedicated to just a few of the architectural sculptures across the state. A detail (below) from the previous post–just one of the quirky sculpture areas of the Nordaas American Homes former…

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