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An interesting side effect of working so many hours in just 2 days to get a show up and down is that after working 21 hours straight you get a little loopy! For what it’s worth, I took this picture at 3:30am after the show was struck, everything was put away, and the crew was [...]
Early last Friday morning, fiber artist Jean Matzke went out for a stroll in downtown St. Paul with her boxer, Maya, just like she did every morning. As she crossed the street near her condo in Lowertown Artist Lofts, she was struck and killed by a passing garbage truck. The strange, sad nature of the [...]
For those of you who are curious about Tango dance and music, come to the third in our series of SkyPesher concerts and hear local aficionados Mandrágora Tango Orchestra heat up the James Turell’s sculpture. There will also be lessons taught by local instructor Lois Donnay before the concert begins. High heeled shoes, neckerchiefs, red roses [...]
There have been a plethora of reviews and blog posts about Rock the Garden coming through my google alerts lately, and they’ve been overwhelmingly positive. My summation of the reviews and tweets I’ve seen so far boils down to two major points: The new layout with the stage facing south up the hill was a big [...]
If you are too excited to wait for Queer Takes to open tomorrow night with a screening of Nacho Velilla’s Chef’s Special, you’re in luck. Here are the details: In celebration of Gay Pride, the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival and St. Paul Jewish Community Center present the Minnesota premiere showing of an Israeli GLBT documentary, Stefan [...]
New Media has a number of development servers located in-house where we get stuff done before releasing it out into the wild. Until last week these were protected by an aging OpenBSD firewall running packet filter and all was well until midweek when the motherboard failed. Not having a spare on hand, I was scrambling [...]
This is a longer version of the interviews with visual arts fellows Dan Byers and Andria Hickey, and design fellows Mylinh Trieu Nguyen and Noa Segal, from a story in the July/August issue of Walker magazine. For nearly three decades, the Walker has been recruiting recent graduates and junior professionals to work as fellows in its design [...]
This is a longer version of the interviews with visual arts fellows Dan Byers and Andria Hickey, from a story in the July/August issue of Walker magazine. Design fellow Noa Segal has posted her interview and Mylinh Trieu’s over on the design blog. For nearly three decades, the Walker has been recruiting recent graduates and junior [...]
Recent Comments
Remembering Jean Matzke
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: bob thinker
This was my aunt she was a great person and this hapened to the wrong person
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Cassie
I have some photos from the show as well! http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666122743/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666121323/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666925384/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666924130/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666116967/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666114857/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666112485/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiedj/3666110449/
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Amy
My flickr photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pork-chop/sets/72157620158442380/ It was such a fun day!
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Jim
Sorry you had a crappy time Karen. I was there for the entire show and had no such complaints. We also weren't so far away, and were stage right for most and then 4 rows from the front for The Decemberists. Also, I always went to the bathroom inside the Art Center and I will say being a girl and having to go to the bathroom at ANY event sucks. The girl line was always huge while the guy line was next to nothing.
Q & A with Kristin Makholm, new director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: tom
Jimmy I'm sorry..but, did you make a point?
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Karen Williams
I'm surprised that you say that the comments have been \overwhelmingly positive\. We arrived late and so were up on top of the hill and the sound quality up there was pretty lousy. Too much bass, and very hard to hear the midrange. One could move around and improve it a bit, but we discovered as we left during the Decemberist's last song, that the sound on the street to the west was far superior to that inside the gates. Several people I spoke with said they'll skip the admission next year and just stand on the street! The inadequate number of port-o-potties - maybe 14 total on top of the hill - was a big annoyance! I spent half of the Calexico set in line for the can- inexcusable!
Q & A with Kristin Makholm, new director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Jimmy Longoria
Say Gregg have you checked out the funding situation for those museums, schools, studios, associations and clubs? Have ya heard about the "un allotment" and how it pulls the rug out from under the "YES"? Have ya heard how the regular foundations are "refocusing" the funding and have pretty much given everyone the "two year" count? Have ya also heard of the drop in attendance at all venues? What is this new old museum gonna need a year to operate? 2 million?, 1 million, .5 million, $250,000.00? And out of what pocket is it going to come from? Just thinking about the money that will not be going to artists making art for communities, and putting it out there in the street??? What ya thunk son? Jimmy Longoria
Dr. Ronald Mallett speaks on time travel at the Walker
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Ashley
Sounds like a great program, can't wait!
Blog the Garden- the backstage perspective (part 1)
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Joe Beres
Only Tony would just happen to have a bobcat at his house. That's awesome. Love these posts, Pearl. Keep em coming.
Nauman and Me (and the Mic-in-a-Tree)
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Vanessa
This is extremely interesting Peter. Would you say this is the hardest installation you've undergone at the WAC?
Tulpan!
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Joy
I took my 13 year old Kazakh-American daughter to share the experience of watching a story filmed in her homeland. The beautiful singing by the mother and daughter took me back to my travels eight years ago to Kazakhstan, where I was entertained by dozens of beautiful children in an orphanage, singing those same lovely song. My daughter was thoroughly engrossed in the story and the visual beauty.
Q & A with Kristin Makholm, new director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Gregg Reed
Recently I've wondered if regional art museums, such as the Minnesota Museum of Art, might be a good investment for the future. In the past, Minnesota museums had to reach to other places to find art. The seemingly increasing numbers of local city art museums, schools, studios, associations, and clubs are opening a widespread and newly associated layer of art and artists. The state's success in the arts in the late 20th century might also require deeper examination. More state and community development funding for art might nurture new artists and art for a state museum in the future.
Q & A with Kristin Makholm, new director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Jimmy Longoria
Another non profit competing for ever shrinking funds? Only in Saint Paul would there be the kind of leadership to give it a shot. Hopefully KM will not be as naive as many of the previous generation of artists have been. Museum need to be about the "patrons" who give the"collections" the focus needed to keep the funding coming in. I trust KM will do the five year projection on audience demographics and program the museum so it does not become just another artists party central- Chicano Artist de Minnesota Hi KM and good luck.
Working Knowledge: the Walker’s design fellows
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Fei
Yay Mylinh! I'm excited to see where you're going to take your studies @ Yale
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: fivesixzero :: Erik Hess
On Sunday I posted a collection of mostly after-dark photos from the Decemberists set. Should have the rest up today. Decemberists Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/560/sets/72157620054142493/
Build a bridging firewall (cheap!)
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Joe
Very cool. Will be interested to hear how this works out longer term -- the soekris boxes have been trouble free so far, but for $50+ I'd consider this approach in some cases.
Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate Achievement (^_^)
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Hamil
Cooper Hewitt Rocks! He deserves the award.
Rock the Garden reviews and photos
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: solace
i posted my photos on flickr as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/solace/sets/72157619952711605/ including 3 pretty neat panoramas i shot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/solace/3648902098/sizes/o/
Build a bridging firewall (cheap!)
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Joe Beres
My mind is significantly blown. Now I have some sense, or perhaps none at all, of what goes on across the partition in the offices here.
Artist Portrait: Ty Evans vs. Rip the Ripper
Date: July 02, 12:00 am
by: Joseph Rizzo
Nice work Gene. I still remember the first time I saw that iconic Ripper graphic when I was 8 or 9. That image is probably the reason I'm interested in art. That and the scene from Terminator 2 where the terminator, who is made from some kind of liquid metal, gets blasted in the face. http://www.virginmedia.com/images/t100-431x300.jpg