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March 17, 2021 – September 19, 2021 | G370 | Free Exhibition On March 24, 2020, Minneapolis-based artist Piotr Szyhalski embarked on a daily drawing practice, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded in real time. What began as a way for the artist to share observations of life in lockdown and the pain caused by the pandemic, soon became an exercise in chronicling his thoughts and feelings, reconciling them with the changes being wrought in the world. COVID-19: Labor Camp Report consists of 225 drawings created over eight months, with new drawings posted daily on Instagram, a witness to the unfolding crisis and a record of time both labored and lost. Explore Exhibition Views of Gallery 370 with objects installed for the exhibition „Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp – COVID-19: Labor Camp Report“ at Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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November 23, 2019 – October 18, 2020 | Gallery 255 | Free Exhibition Julie Buffalohead creates visual narratives told by animal characters who have personhood, agency, and individuality. Like all great storytellers, Buffalohead connects the mythical with the ordinary, the imaginary, and the real, and offers a space into which viewers can bring their own experiences
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December 7, 2019 – October 18, 2020 | Gallery 275 | Free Exhibition Showcased here is a selection of fiber artworks acquired over the past five years by Mia’s Department of Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture. The term “fiber art” came into being in the years following World War II (1939–45) to describe the work of artists who employed various methods of textile production traditionally recognized as “craft” or “women’s work”: weaving, knitting, crochet, and other techniques
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September 14, 2024 – September 14, 2025 | Gallery 256 | Free Exhibition „Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection“ includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s
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April 23, 2022 – December 11, 2022 | Perlman Gallery | Free Exhibition In this striking series of images, visual artist Yee I-Lann creates graphically distinctive photographic assemblages to address the legacies of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. By appropriating historical photographs sourced from colonial archives in the Netherlands, and arranging them with her own photography, the artist provides new grounds for interpreting the visual record of imperialism in Southeast Asia
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November 14, 2015 – January 3, 2016 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition A pair of two silver statues by Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720–93), donated to the museum by long-time trustees Al and Mary Agnes McQuinn, marks one of the most important additions to Mia’s silver collection. Executed with amazing detail, the statues testify to a devotion to the two Archangels, an act that goes back to the Early Christian period and continues to flourish in Southern Italy (as well as in the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches) to the present day
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September 24, 2016 – June 11, 2017 | Galleries 315, 316 | Free Exhibition Die Neuen Wilden (The New Wild Ones) was an informal group of young Neo-Expressionist artists active in Germany from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Taking a cue from German Expressionist art of the early 20th century, Neo-Expressionism was bold, raw, brutish, spontaneous, messy, vital, emotional, sensual, antimodern, antiprogressive, and at times nihilistic, denying any meaning in life
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