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From Sportswear to Streetwear The Goldstein Museum Of Design	Daily from Sat., August 16 until Sun., November 2	Como	Museums
All the cool kids might think their Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars are just hip canvas shoes. Ditto for Technicolor Nike Air Force Ones. But to the well-trained designer's eye, these kicks mark a significant departure in our fashion history: the idea that clothes designed to be worn for sports... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4	University	Museums
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art
Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the doors off of artistic sensibilities at the time. Their libertine experimentalism bridged abstract expressionism and pop... More >>

Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd Walker Art Center	Daily from Thu., May 15 until Sun., July 12	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Museums
At first glance, it might be hard to find a common thread between these three artists, other than hastily applying a "Minimalism" tag to their work or noting that the bulk of their work came out of the 1960s and '70s. Joseph Bueys often worked with felt and manipulated found objects,... More >>

Vatican Splendors: From Saint Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Swiss Guard Minnesota History Center	Daily from Sat., September 27 until Sun., January 11	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums Art
Remember that Onion headline a few years back when Pope John Paul II died? "Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope." Zing. Everybody knows that the pope and his posse at the Vatican live surrounded by ornate and priceless treasures amid ancient buildings designed and... More >>

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Pandit Anindo Chatterjee Pangea World Theater	Sun., October 12, 10:30am	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums

Art of the Wild: An Exhibit Featuring Minnesota’s Federal Duck Stamp Artists Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Tue., October 7 until Wed., January 7	University	Museums Art

CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums

Beyond the Maker’s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 19 until Sun., April 19	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Museums Art

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces--Contemporary Photography and Video Art Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Free First Saturdays Walker Art Center	Sat., November 1, 10:00am-3:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Museums Art

Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., January 25	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Strange Ornament from the Renaissance Mind Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., May 3	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Steven Kazlowski Bell Museum Of Natural History	Thu., November 13, 7:00pm	University	Readings & Lectures Museums

Margaret Pezalla-Granlund and Max Schollett Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Sum of the Parts The Goldstein Museum Of Design	Daily from Sat., November 22 until Sun., January 18	Como	Museums Art

Hmong at Heart Minnesota Children's Museum	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Mon., January 19	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums Family Events

Avant-garde Artist's Books Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., May 24	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Sleeping in Style: Textiles for the Bedroom Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., May 31	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., December 13 until Sun., April 5	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

The Louvre and the Masterpiece Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 18 until Sun., January 10	Uptown/Eat Street	Museums Art

Hearsighted Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Sat., October 11, 8:00pm-12:00am	University	Parties/Fashion Museums

A Heartfelt Swedish Invention at 50 Years: The Implantable Pacemaker American Swedish Institute	Daily from Mon., September 29 until Sun., October 26	Powderhorn	Museums Art