Blog
Fresh perspectives on art, life, and current events. From deep dives to quick takes to insightful interviews, it’s the museum in conversation. Beyond the walls. Outside the frame. Around the world.
The Latest
“In The Stacks with Eric Hanson”—Fragments Ready to Use
Last week, Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, took a trip across the atrium to spend some time in the MIA’s Photographs Study Room with our Curator of Photography and New Media, David Little. Read Eric’s reflections below and stay tuned for illustrations inspired by ...
"In the Stacks with Eric Hanson"—Enfilades
Looks like Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has started sharing some of his visual work. Follow along with his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA Stories, or over at CHP In The Stacks. In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Enfilades About ...
“In the Stacks with Eric Hanson”—Enfilades
Looks like Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has started sharing some of his visual work. Follow along with his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA Stories, or over at CHP In The Stacks. In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Enfilades About ...
Art Inspires: A young writer on the mind-stoking mysteries of Magritte and surrealism
Isaac Lowenthal Walsh is the true author of this post. He’s 11, though, a student in Minneapolis, and he doesn’t have a publicity photo or an official bio—yet. What he has is insight beyond his years. (In March, he reviewed Half Pint, the MIA’s new family restaurant.) And when he trained his eyes on two ...
“In The Stacks with Eric Hanson”—Material and Metaphor
He’s been busy: drawing, photographing, taking notes, making unusually specific requests of the MIA librarians. Being Eric Hanson, basically, as Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, a curious kid in a candy store of historic imagery, news clippings, and ephemera. Here’s the latest download from his overstuffed mind. But first, ...
Introducing "In The Stacks with Eric Hanson"—The Wishful Browser
The MIA is hosting author/illustrator Eric Hanson (that’s him in a self-portrait above and his artwork at left) as the Coffee House Press artist-in-residence inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library. And we couldn’t be more excited. Because, well, here’s his first blog entry from CHP In The Stacks (we’ll also be posting ...
Introducing “In The Stacks with Eric Hanson”—The Wishful Browser
The MIA is hosting author/illustrator Eric Hanson (that’s him in a self-portrait above and his artwork at left) as the Coffee House Press artist-in-residence inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library. And we couldn’t be more excited. Because, well, here’s his first blog entry from CHP In The Stacks (we’ll also be posting ...
8 objects from "Finland: Designed Environments" that explain the coolest country on earth
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 ...
8 objects from “Finland: Designed Environments” that explain the coolest country on earth
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 give me this thing." A new acquisition and the art of divine intervention.
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 ...