As Mia’s new special exhibition, “The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989,” makes clear, the global spread of South Korean pop culture is as intentional as it is relentless. From Gangnam Style to Squid Game to the sudden spike in kimchi consumption, the push to export K-everything has been a  ...

Sokari Douglas Camp, born in Nigeria, moved to Great Britain as a child and trained as an artist in Oakland, California, and London. This dual identity, split between Africa and England, has informed her art. Often, she honors traditional African art forms, though in working with welded steel—a traditionally “male” medium—she is crossing gender boundaries  ...

The Year of the Dragon, in the Chinese zodiac, began on February 10—the same day that Mia opened “Year of the Dragon: Mystical Creatures of the Sky.” In sculpture, paintings, robes, and other objects, the exhibition traces the evolution of Chinese dragons over thousands of years, from a kind of folkloric  ...

Sanford Biggers’ Semaphore sculpture is now on view in Mia’s first-floor lobby. Made in 2019 and acquired by Mia the following year, the installation is part of the museum’s Black History Month celebration honoring the work of artists who interpret Black American stories through creative expression. Biggers, a Los Angeles native who has lived and  ...

Lisa Bergh, whose colorful, abstract sculptures and assemblages are now on view at Mia (“Topography”) as part of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, never intended to be a rural artist. But for close to 20 years, she has made a life, and a living, as a working artist and arts advocate  ...

The last time Robin Hickman-Winfield saw Gordon Parks was in 2006, shortly before his death at 93. They were in New York, in the elegant apartment that Parks bought in 1971 after directing his second film, Shaft. Parks made dinner, as he liked to do. Played the piano. Yet something was  ...

By Tim Gihring American art has not usually encompassed Native American art. Until recently, these collections at Mia were under separate departments and displayed in separate galleries. Now, that relationship is changing. In 2021, the museum created an Arts of the Americas department. This November, museum staff reinstalled four galleries on the third floor with  ...

Mia’s Community Corridor, just off the first-floor lobby, is currently lined with art by museum staff, from security guards to front-of-house folks, educators to exhibition designers. Turns out that spending the day procuring, protecting, or interpreting art goes a long way toward inspiring one’s own, and the dozens of pieces in the show suggest that the  ...

For many of us, this may be the most robust holiday season in years: bigger gatherings, perhaps bigger stockings. Or maybe you came to appreciate a more subdued season, and want to carry on (quietly). Either way, the Store at Mia has you covered with artful objects for celebration and contemplation, festing and nesting. Come  ...

Josie Hoffman grew up on the North Dakota/Minnesota border, but would often visit family in Grand Portage—about a seven-hour drive—on the north shore of Lake Superior. There, at powwows held on the reservation of Grand Portage Anishinaabe, her relatives encouraged her to dance. “They kind of threw me in,” she says.  ...