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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to the Hub, Mia’s editorial home. Dive deeper into the people, communities, and collaborations that make up Mia and our collection of more than 100,000 artworks. Find out how we’re inspiring wonder through the power of art across different areas of our work. </span></p>


<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Embroidered priest robes are among the most ornate expressions of Daoist ritual, rich in symbolic imagery. Sun and moon, dragon or carp, what do these symbols mean?</span></p>
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Wearing the Cosmos: The Symbolic Significance of Daoist Priest Robes

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<p>The winter months are cold, dark, and a little depressing here in the Twin Cities. To cope, we lean into coziness, borrowing from a Danish and Norwegian tradition called <em>hygge</em>.</p>
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<p>At the entrance of Mia’s Harrison Photography Gallery (364), where the exhibition “Annotations” is currently on view, is a glass case displaying six small photographs.</p>
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The Photographs You Might—but Really Shouldn’t—Miss in “Annotations”

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the late 1800s, as Norway was pushing for independence from Sweden, it leaned into silver making as a source of national pride</span>.</p>
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Dragon Style: A Norwegian Silver Show Reveals the Nordic Spirit

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<p>The harvest is in; time to celebrate!</p>
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<p>In this first edition of Photo Study Picks, we’re taking a look at a striking selection of works in Mia’s collection by Native American artists.</p>
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Photo Study Picks: Native American Heritage at Mia

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<p>I come to enhance “The Weirdening of the Renaissance,” not to steal the exhibition’s thunder. (With apologies to Marc Antony from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.)</p>
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Print Study Picks: What the Weirdening Left Out

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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great Gatsby</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s worst-selling novel during his lifetime.</span></p>
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“Gatsby at 100” Shows Why the Jazz Age Still Jumps

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<p>Artists are generally carefree, of sunny disposition, rarely given to dark or macabre thoughts.</p>
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Halloween in the Vaults: These Ghosts Are not Normal

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<p>Hispanic Heritage Month, observed from September 15 to October 15, skirts official “month” status to include and honor the independence days of various Latin American countries.</p>
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Print Study Picks: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

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<p>This lavishly decorated little lacquered box, or <em>bufetillo</em>, from 1600s Mexico, is both beautiful and useful.</p>
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Lobby Object Highlight—Hispanic Heritage Month: Portable Writing Desk (Bufetillo)

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<p>Egon Schiele’s 1913 painting of a sawmill, surrounded by clear-cut forest, has always been something of a mystery.</p>
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When Trees Could Talk: The Curious History Behind Mia’s “Timber!” Exhibition

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<p>We find ourselves in the “dog days” of summer.</p>
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<p>Mary Sully, the groundbreaking Native American artist, channeled her life experiences and her fascination with American celebrities into what she called her “personality prints,” abstract triptychs she created between the late 1920s and mid-1940s.</p>
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The Personalities Behind Mary Sully’s “Personality Prints”

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<p>There was, surprisingly, little pressure on Kondō Takahiro. Born into a legendary family of ceramicists, his grandfather a designated Living National Treasure, Takahiro might have found the weight of expectation to be almost unbearable. Not so.</p>
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From Table Tennis Champion to Master Potter: Kondō Takahiro’s Many Forms

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<p>July is the golden month, filled with sunshine, fun, heat, and time outdoors. Here’s a sampling of works permeated by the glorious, languid spirit of summer—capturing repose, verdancy, and vibrancy.</p>
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Print Study Picks: Endless Summer Vacation

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<p>The Renaissance, which began in Italy some 700 hundred years ago, was idealized even as it was happening, as a kind of beacon of beauty and reason that would lead the way out of the Dark Ages.</p>
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5 Prints That Show How Weird the Renaissance Was

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<p>In her recent talk at Mia, Leslie Wilson, academic curator and director of research programs at the Art Institute of Chicago, explored the complexities of South African photojournalist Ernest Cole’s documentary work in the United States.</p>
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Three Insights from Leslie Wilson’s Talk on Ernest Cole’s Photographs

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<p>Mia continually enhances and diversifies the collection with the addition of new artworks every year. Here are four highlights, soon to be on view in the galleries.</p>
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<p>The Deans—better known as Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys—have built an art collecting practice that screams disruption.</p>
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<p>For the past few months, in the opening gallery of Mia’s “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” exhibition, two men have been popping wheelies.</p>
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Artist Spotlight: Amy Sherald and the Hard Work of Simply Being

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<p>June is Pride Month, and we’re celebrating with a selection of works by LGBTQIA+ artists that (fittingly) repudiate assumptions, subvert norms, and exemplify creative invention.</p>
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<p>Mia is proud to celebrate the creative legacies of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists this May.</p>
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Print Study Picks: The Influence and Endurance of Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists

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<p>In Oceania, the Western Elema people of Papua New Guinea created Eharo dance masks as part of their Hevehe cycle of ceremonies.</p>
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“Thing of Gladness”: Eharo Dance Mask

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<p>In 1897, the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet made four paintings of the chrysanthemums in his garden in Giverny.</p>
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Notes on a Flower: Chrysanthemums in Japan and France

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<p>In this edition of <em>Print Study Picks</em>, it’s Art in Bloom season, and we’ve got flowers on the brain.</p>
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<p>In this first edition of <em>Print Study Picks</em>, we’re showcasing the variety of works viewable in the Print Study Room with three prints that each use a unique printmaking technique.</p>
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<p>We’re joining the thousands of cultural organizations and arts institutions answering this question—a small-scale action within an ongoing conversation about gender equity in the arts.</p>
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<p>This month a work returns to display at Mia that’s been unseen for decades: Esther M. Moore’s <i>The Charmed Circle of Youth</i>. For the occasion, we’re here to tell the story of her enigmatic work—or as much as is possible to tell.</p>
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Celebrating Women’s History Month with the Enigmatic Art of Esther M. Moore

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<p>Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been called the “master of the publicity poster.” Given the distinctiveness of his work, viewers could be forgiven for assuming he was the originator of this unique style. In fact, he was borrowing from the rich visual culture of Edo-period Japan.</p>
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Masterful Marketing, from Edo to Montmartre

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<p>Roshan Ganu is fascinated by the night. It’s a fascination she wasn’t always able to explore growing up in Goa, India, where caution rules women’s mobility in public spaces. “We grow up hearing ‘don’t go out at night.’ It’s something that’s just so hardwired [into a woman].”</p>
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Magic and Mythmaking in Roshan Ganu’s “रातराणी: The Night Blooming Jasmine”

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<p>The Moulin Rouge opened in Paris on October 6, 1889, the same year as the Eiffel Tower. This month, as the iconic cabaret marks its 135th anniversary, Mia has opened “At The Moulin Rouge,” an exhibition built around Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting of the same name.</p>
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The Magic of the Moulin Rouge: A Q&A with Galina Olmsted

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<p>The year 1989 is remembered for many things—the birth of the World Wide Web and Taylor Swift, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the uprising in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Often overlooked is the shift in South Korea from dictatorship to democracy, which has propelled the country’s remarkable rise in economic and cultural power.</p>
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“The Shape of Time” Reveals the Creative Spirit Behind South Korea’s Rapid Rise

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<p>In an essay excerpted from the exhibition catalogue for In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Jaida Grey Eagle talks about her work and impact of Native photographers.</p>
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Jaida Grey Eagle, Co-Curator of “In Our Hands,” Reflects on the Future of Indigenous Photography

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<p>In the fall of 2020, a group of 14 mostly Native artists and writers met online to discuss a potential exhibition of Native photography, and they agreed on some basic guidelines. Honor the work of elder artists, while including contemporary photographers.</p>
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“In Our Hands” Turns the Camera Around, Puts Native Photographers in Control

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<p>In 1854, the word “Pre-Columbian” first came into use, according to Merriam-Webster, bifurcating the history of the Americas into a time before Columbus arrived and a time after. Mia&#8217;s exhibition “ReVisión: Art in the Americas” bridged the divide with a simple but liberating concept: no boundaries.</p>
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How “ReVisión” Challenges the Narrative of American History, and Looks Great Doing It

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Collection and Exhibitions

<p>In the winter of 1975, a couple dozen artists from around Minnesota gathered at a conference center in the Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata, on the frozen shores of Long Lake.</p>
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<p>Hend Al-Mansour is a translator of sorts, working between the realms of feeling and seeing. She conveys experiences, ideas, and emotions through her immersive, room-like installation portraits of Arab American women.</p>
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Minnesota Artist Hend Al-Mansour on the Healing Art of Representation

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<p>Each year, thousands of students around the country participate in National History Day. Working with their teachers, they select a historical topic and strive to gain an in-depth understanding of its significance.</p>
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Young Historians Visit Mia’s Photography Study Room

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<p>Mia prioritizes including community expertise in museum collections and programming, partnering with organizations that promote representational diversity and broaden accessibility. These partnerships ensure that every voice in our diverse community is heard and valued.</p>
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Celebrating the Vibrant Diversity of Our Community

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<p>The new year brings resolutions and an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months. Whether through our programming, partnerships, educational efforts, or events, we love getting out into the community as much as we love welcoming folks in.</p>
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Mia in the Community: A Look Back at 2024

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<p>Hózhǫ́ is a foundational concept in the Navajo world, encompassing ideas of beauty, harmony, balance, order, grace, health, and happiness. It is a state of being, thinking, and acting. Navajo artists embody hózhǫ́ as they weave, and textiles are imbued with and become works of hózhǫ́.</p>
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Exploring the Concept of Hózhǫ́ During Native American Heritage Month

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<p>Two photographs by self-described visual activist Zanele Muholi, taken in 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa, appeared in Mia’s lobby to celebrate Pride Month.</p>
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Celebrating Pride Month with Zanele Muholi’s Photography

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<p>Mia’s collection goes far beyond what you see in the galleries. Of the pieces in storage, the majority are prints and drawings, but these works don’t languish behind the scenes: You can make an appointment to view up to 15 prints and drawings in the Herschel V. Jones Print Study Room.</p>
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Queerness in the Collection: Rarely Seen Portraiture for Pride Month

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<p>For National Hmong Heritage Month, Mia displayed two Paj Ntaub, or Flower Cloth, tapestries in the lobby. As the first Hmong who arrived in the United States during the Vietnam War are beginning to pass away, there has never been a more urgent time to contribute to the preservation of Hmong culture.</p>
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How a Young Conservator Is Helping Preserve Her Hmong Heritage

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<p>For years, Mia had a booth in the cavernous Education Building at the Minnesota State Fair, giving away things like cardboard fans, dubbed “Art on a Stick.” With the flick of a wrist, the eye-catching freebies kept fairgoers cool.</p>
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Mia’s Long, Unlikely History with the Minnesota State Fair

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<p>Casey Riley, Mia’s curator of photography and new media, and Alec Soth, a Minnesota photograph, author, and educator, discuss photo books for kids and Mia’s “Just Kids” exhibition of photographs of, by, and for kids.</p>
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 Picturing Childhood: Alec Soth on the Quirky Delights of Photo Books for Kids

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Teen Perspectives Opening Reception at Mia.

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<p>Scotty Monten wears many hats, often layering them, three or four at a time: A.V. tech, event planner, videographer, photographer, performer, archivist—the list goes on.</p>
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Meet Mia: Q&A with Scotty Monten, Event Media Technician

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<p>Shivani Kamat has taught elementary students and gotten her hands dirty working on an archeological dig at a monastery in Ireland.</p>
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Meet Mia: Q&A with Shivani Kamat, Visitor Experience Representative

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<p>Valéria Piccoli is Mia’s Ken and Linda Cutler Chair of the Art of the Americas and curator of Latin American art. She was formerly the chief curator of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, one of the most esteemed art museums in South America.</p>
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Q&A with Valéria Piccoli, Mia’s Curator of Latin American Art

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<p>Bridget Gallagher-Larkin has been recognized in public, on more than one occasion, as “the Art Adventure lady,” a testament to her rock-star-like status among the elementary school set.</p>
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Meet Mia: Q&A with Bridget Gallagher-Larkin, Student & Teacher Programs Specialist

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