I’m not going to tell you where to live. And even if I did, I’m afraid I couldn’t help you get there. Because it’d be Finland, a nation of five million frequently frozen souls (only slightly more than live in Minnesota) a long way from America, and not just physically. In the MIA’s sharp new  ...

I’m not going to tell you where to live. And even if I did, I’m afraid I couldn’t help you get there. Because it’d be Finland, a nation of five million frequently frozen souls (only slightly more than live in Minnesota) a long way from America, and not just physically. In the MIA’s sharp new  ...

God gives you a gift, you’ve got no right to neglect it*—a single-minded philosophy that’s driven many a man and woman, for better or worse, to great heights. Moses on Mount Sinai, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Michelle Bachmann on the steps of the Capitol. But how  ...

God gives you a gift, you’ve got no right to neglect it*—a single-minded philosophy that’s driven many a man and woman, for better or worse, to great heights. Moses on Mount Sinai, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Michelle Bachmann on the steps of the Capitol. But how  ...

Would you recognize a loved one’s eye—singular—without any other context? No hair, no mouth, no decolletage? More importantly, would anyone else—like her spouse? Opening May 16 at the MIA is “The Look of Love,” a fascinating and quirky exhibition that reveals a forgotten trend among the royals and upper class of England in the late  ...

Would you recognize a loved one’s eye—singular—without any other context? No hair, no mouth, no decolletage? More importantly, would anyone else—like her spouse? Opening May 16 at the MIA is “The Look of Love,” a fascinating and quirky exhibition that reveals a forgotten trend among the royals and upper class of England in the late  ...

Washburn-Fair Oaks Park, across 24th Street from the MIA, was once the estate of William Washburn, a flour magnate. He dubbed it Fair Oaks after the grove he cleared to build an incredible castle of a home on the 10 acres, transforming the remaining grounds into a lush park of ponds, fountains, and a lagoon.  ...

Etta and Claribel Cone, the Baltimore sisters whose Matisse collection is on view at the MIA for just a couple more weeks, weren’t exclusively Matisse fans, of course. Though that collection, some 500 of his paintings, drawings, illustrated books, and more, would have been enough to fill their shared apartments. They also had 17 paintings,  ...

Etta and Claribel Cone, the Baltimore sisters whose Matisse collection is on view at the MIA for just a couple more weeks, weren’t exclusively Matisse fans, of course. Though that collection, some 500 of his paintings, drawings, illustrated books, and more, would have been enough to fill their shared apartments. They also had 17 paintings,  ...

Art in Bloom, the MIA’s preeminent event for patrons, pairing fresh floral displays with art in the galleries, runs May 1 to 4. But there are thousands of floral-related artworks in the MIA collection, the great majority of which are not currently on view. So here’s a quick tour, an armchair Art in Bloom of  ...