The Object LIVE! Presented by Ameriprise Financial

Mia’s award-winning podcast, The Object, tells the surprising, true stories behind the art and artists in the collection. Called “playful, thoughtful, and elegant” and “on par with This American Life” by critics, it’s the museum as you’ve never heard it before. The Object LIVE! is a series of live taping events—everything you love about the podcast brought to life on stage.

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February 7, 2026
This live taping of The Object podcast, hosted by Tim Gihring, features special guest musician jeremy messersmith, fun quizzes and prizes, and of course storytelling. A very Valentine’s afternoon all about the comedy and tragedy of the heart in love. Join us for an irreverent, warm-hearted romp with Cupid and Psyche, Orpheus and Eurydice, and other classical couples whose stories of heartache, jealousy, and passion have long captured our imagination in art. It’s “The Object LOVE! Don’t Go Breaking My Art!”

Celebrated singer-songwriter jeremy messersmith has thoughtfully, cleverly captured life’s delicate balance of joy and absurdity in pop masterworks like The Reluctant Graveyard (named one of NPR’s top 10 albums of 2010), Heart Murmurs (2013), and Late Stage Capitalism (2018). His songs of missed connections and kittens, boomers and billionaires, and the transformative power of love have drawn praise from the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Star Tribune, which dubbed him a “Minnesota music hero.”