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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
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 >>

Open Mic Acme Comedy Co.	Every week Monday, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Comedy
It's true, open-mic nights can be a dodgy venture. Performers can be erratic and lack stage presence; the embarrassment of a failed joke can be almost too much to bear. Fortunately, at this open-mic night, those moments are few and far between. Thanks to the three-minute time limit, if things... More >>

Soap Boxing Artists' Quarter	First Monday of every month, 7:00pm	St. Paul (Downtown)	Poetry/Spoken Word
If your mental image of slam poetry is one of dirty hippies yelling about hegemony, you owe it to yourself to show up at the cavernous Artists' Quarter tonight. It's well into the competitive season for Twin Cities slam; new poems and new poets alike have been tested, and their struggle is... More >>

Switchbladecomb.com Record Party Uptown Bar & Cafe	Every week Monday, 9:00pm	Uptown/Eat Street	Music
"No Eagles. No Phil Collins. No Bummers." That's the motto of the dance night put on every Monday at the Uptown Bar by the folks at indie-centric pop culture blog Switchblade Comb, and to be honest it's a pretty open-ended one. Everybody who considers themselves a music geek tries to boost... 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)	Art Museums
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 >>

Eduardo Blidner: Argentine Drag Queens Icebox Quality Framing And Gallery	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., January 7	Northeast	Art Galleries
Argentine photographer Eduardo Blidner is no stranger to Minneapolis's Icebox Gallery. In 2000 the gallery hosted Blidner's first solo show, which launched his series "Tango Argentino" around the world. Last year Icebox was the first gallery in the world to host Blidner's globetrotting... More >>

CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums
Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In this criminally creative display, visitors dive into several crime scenes and use modern... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
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 >>

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
When we think of art from India, most of us probably conjure images of Bollywood films or Hindu deities with four arms. This massive show of contemporary Indian photography and video art at MIA promises to be eye-opening, playing with some Indian traditions and stereotypes and exploding others.... More >>

MJ Heubach: A Collection of New Work Nicademus	Daily from Sat., November 15 until Sat., December 6	Midway/Frogtown	Art Galleries
Local graphic designer, painter, illustrator, photographer, and general artist extraordinaire MJ Heubach is like a cinematographer or director of photography in film biz: His work is seen and enjoyed everywhere, but his name is far from household. Heubach has designed for Dunn Bros. Coffee... More >>

Open House: If These Walls Could Talk Minnesota History Center Library	Daily from Thu., October 23 until Mon., January 31	St. Paul (Downtown)	History/Tours/Landmarks
>"Open House: If These Walls Could Talk," is the recreation of a house that still exists in the Railroad Island neighborhood of St. Paul. The Minnesota History Museum is always bursting with hands-on exhibits, and "Open House" is no exception. Upon entering the house, every object in the... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
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 >>

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in America. Sure, some American art scholars can talk about his impact on postwar art movements. But despite the 18 years... More >>

Danny Saathoff: The Mechanical Alchemist Gallery 360	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., January 11	Edina	Art Galleries
In the parlance of the art world, which seems to put a premium on stuffiness, Danny Saathoff's new show, "The Mechanical Alchemist," is a collection of "interactive assemblages." But don't let the terms fool you; the art is very anti-stuffy. You can think of the pieces as artistic Bop-Its.... More >>

The Hidden World of Bears: Photography by Lynn Rogers Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sun., January 4	University	Art Museums
Grizzly Adams has nothing on biologist Lynn Rogers. Rogers has been studying bears for 40 years, getting close to them, and apparently earning the animals' trust. At the Wildlife Research Center in Ely, Rogers has tracked more than 100 bears with radio collars, some for longer than 20 years. He... More >>

Toys On Roids Soo Visual Arts Center	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., December 24	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries
Despite the title of this show, it is not a series of José Canseco Starting Lineup figurines on display. Although that would be kind of cool, too. The "roids" in Sean Tubridy's "Toys on Roids" do not refer to steroids, but to Polaroid photos. And the "toys" refers to, well, that's pretty... More >>

William Lamson: Actions Franklin Art Works	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Sat., December 20	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries
Artist William Lamson's video collection "Actions" is perhaps the most entertaining art being created right now. This is not hyperbole. This is not exaggeration. This is not an opinion. This is irrefutable fact. For the project, Lamson made videos of different ways to pop black balloons. It... More >>

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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	Art 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	Art Museums

Davina & the Vagabonds Famous Dave's BBQ and Blues	Mon., December 1, 8:00pm	Uptown/Eat Street	Music

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

Indie Invasion Tour Trocaderos	Mon., December 1, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music

Jennifer Danos Franklin Art Works	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Sat., December 20	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries