On January 23 and March 27, you’re invited to join Krista Tippett for On Being Live at the MIA. Held in conjunction with the museum’s Sacred exhibition, she’ll tape her radio show before a live audience for later broadcast, speaking with artists Ann Hamilton (January 23) and Dario Robleto (March 27) on art and spirituality.  ...

The world of Harry Potter aside, still pictures—paintings, drawings, photographs—don’t tend to move. But that doesn’t mean they can’t evoke some of the great moving pictures of our time. Recently, as part of the MIA’s Evolvelle initiative to interpret the museum’s collection in experimental ways, we asked Baltimore-based actor and film historian George Figgs to  ...

The world of Harry Potter aside, still pictures—paintings, drawings, photographs—don’t tend to move. But that doesn’t mean they can’t evoke some of the great moving pictures of our time. Recently, as part of the MIA’s Evolvelle initiative to interpret the museum’s collection in experimental ways, we asked Baltimore-based actor and film historian George Figgs to  ...

As a child, I was captivated by the mystery of Easter Island after reading a short story in my fourth-grade reader. This was 1975, so Easter Island was still a distant and perplexing place, full of unanswered questions as weighty as the statues that dotted its slopes—the first commercial flight to the island had landed  ...

If you walk into gallery 340 on the third floor, you might notice that one of the things there is not like the others. In a space dominated by tapestries, sculpture, and armor from the 15th to 17th centuries, Helena Hernmarck’s 1974 tapestry, Glimpse, was recently included as one of the MIA’s ReMix installations, a  ...

If you walk into gallery 340 on the third floor, you might notice that one of the things there is not like the others. In a space dominated by tapestries, sculpture, and armor from the 15th to 17th centuries, Helena Hernmarck’s 1974 tapestry, Glimpse, was recently included as one of the MIA’s ReMix installations, a  ...

Hard to believe we used to joke about “Made in Taiwan” labels—where was Taiwan exactly, where Godzilla was from?—back when that was an exotic rarity, largely limited to cheap toys. The tables turned a long time ago, and the flood of manufacturing jobs from America to overseas factories appears inexorable—5.8 million since 2000, the vast  ...

Hard to believe we used to joke about “Made in Taiwan” labels—where was Taiwan exactly, where Godzilla was from?—back when that was an exotic rarity, largely limited to cheap toys. The tables turned a long time ago, and the flood of manufacturing jobs from America to overseas factories appears inexorable—5.8 million since 2000, the vast  ...

The MIA has a remarkable collection of banks, of the piggy-bank variety. And one of the most popular themes (aside from piggies) is Santa Claus. Because nothing says saving like a fat home invader in a red suit. Of course, saving for Christmas was serious business for 20th century Americans, especially during the Depression, when  ...

Clare Vivier wants to know if there will be snow for Christmas. Not in Los Angeles, where she lives now with her husband and son, but back in St. Paul, where she grew up and will soon return for family, friends, and Northern Grade @ MIA Presents: From Maker to Market, a December 26 discussion  ...