Among the many benefits of having bees on the roof—honey. Sweet, fresh, raw honey. The bees have been busy. Several times this summer, the honey they made was extracted, named (Rooftop Gold, courtesy of a curator), labeled for FDA standards, and is on sale now in the store at the MIA. Eminently giftable, it comes  ...

From the second-floor window of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I can see my childhood church, just across the park. Over the years, both of these buildings have become places of salvation. When work or life get to be too much, I’ll go to the museum and get a new perspective. Today it starts with  ...

Selfies—we all make fun of them, we all take them. (When’s the last time you set your camera on a tripod and used the timer? For that matter, when’s the last time you used a real camera, not your phone?) Selfies aren’t going away. At least, that was the bet placed by the Oxford English  ...

Starting this week, one of the stars of the museum’s collection—painted by candlelight in the depths of World War II—will be transformed before your eyes, in Gallery 370. Restoring a Masterwork III: Max Beckmann’s Blind Man’s Buff pulls back the curtain on the conservation staff from the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC) as they give the  ...

Men are dressing better, they say. And by “they” I mean women, who notice these things. And why not—they have to be seen with us. Which is why both genders should appreciate Northern Grade @ MIA, an American heritage market peddling limited-edition menswear and accoutrement in the museum from November 21 to January 3. From  ...

For me, Tokyo Story 7: Nightfall (after Hiroshige) by Emily Allchurch evokes very personal feelings of nostalgia and déjà vu. I’ll explain why in just a bit. But first, some context. Allchurch’s piece is from her re-imaginings of Hiroshige’s A Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a series of woodblock prints detailing scenes in Edo (Tokyo)  ...

For me, Tokyo Story 7: Nightfall (after Hiroshige) by Emily Allchurch evokes very personal feelings of nostalgia and déjà vu. I’ll explain why in just a bit. But first, some context. Allchurch’s piece is from her re-imaginings of Hiroshige’s A Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a series of woodblock prints detailing scenes in Edo (Tokyo)  ...

The assumption about Miley Cyrus—the former Hannah Montana good girl turned twerking, toking bad girl—is that she’s trying to grow up (a judgment that’s hard even to write without sounding paternalistic). But more likely it’s us, the audience, who need to grow up. And a lot of famous if mostly dead artists might agree. Take  ...

The assumption about Miley Cyrus—the former Hannah Montana good girl turned twerking, toking bad girl—is that she’s trying to grow up (a judgment that’s hard even to write without sounding paternalistic). But more likely it’s us, the audience, who need to grow up. And a lot of famous if mostly dead artists might agree. Take  ...

When the new Africa galleries at the MIA open to the public on Sunday, November 10, you may wonder where these objects have been all your life. These drums, these masks. Some, in fairness, you never knew: they were recently acquired. Others you just never saw for what they were: objects meant not to be  ...