June 24, 2012 – September 16, 2012 | Target Gallery (admission charged) | Ticketed Exhibition – SOLD OUT Presented by: Experience a nation’s passion for paintings by Rembrandt and his followers. And witness the trajectory of this 17th-century Dutch master, from brash young artist to timeless observer of humanity
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March 20, 2014 – June 15, 2014 | Target Wing | Free Exhibition Aberration, a new site-specific installation by Jamie Owens and Claire Victoria, is the fourth installment of the annual MCAD@MIA program. The color geometric abstraction compositions—printed onto cling film and applied directly onto the museum windows—mirror the architecture of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Whittier neighborhood
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November 25, 2017 – December 31, 2017 | Purcell-Cutts House | $5 for adults; free to Mia members, K-12 students, and children under 6. Designed by William Purcell and George Elmslie in 1913, the Prairie School–style Purcell-Cutts House will be decorated for the holidays to reflect the upper-middle-class, “progressive” lifestyle of the Purcells around 1915. Forty-five–minute tours led by costumed docents will emphasize the gifts, toys, food, and social traditions of the period that the Purcells might have enjoyed
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January 22, 2022 – October 16, 2022 | The Winton Jones Gallery for Prints and Drawings (Gallery 344) | Free Exhibition By the 1700s, the once mighty seafaring republic of Venice had been in decline for 300 years. Yet the island city still had one undiminished power—magic
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August 1, 2015 – March 27, 2016 | Gallery 353 | Free exhibition Like a tree pruned one too many times, some of the museum’s finest artworks have been forced to stay quiet. These are watercolors, pastels, gouaches, charcoals, and ink drawings that are rarely exhibited out of concern for their light-sensitive materials
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December 22, 2012 – November 10, 2013 | Galleries 315 and 316 | Free Exhibition For centuries, artists have explored the world of work and workers, creating enduring impressions of the challenges, triumphs, and life-affirming dignity of human labor. From romanticized visions of agrarian life, to sobering depictions of beleaguered manual laborers and miners, to scenes of worksites, factories, and industrial landscapes, these images reveal strikingly diverse interpretations of what it means to work
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June 24, 2017 – March 11, 2018 | Gallery 315 and 316 | Free Exhibition „A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves—strong, powerful, beautiful—and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.“—Pam Brown For more than 500 years, horses have been favorite subjects for artists and their patrons. In the prints, drawings, and artists’ books featured in this exhibition, horses take on many roles
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July 1, 2018 – September 27, 2018 | Community Commons | Free Over the past months, Juxtaposition Arts’ teaching artists Sayge Carroll and Jordan Hamilton worked with apprentices to create the face jugs displayed here. As Folk art, face jugs have become a significant feature in the history of African-American art
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May 21, 2017 – July 30, 2017 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition “I had only to open my window, and blue air, love and flowers entered with her. She seemed to float over my canvases, guiding my art.” — Marc Chagall Amid the hardships of World War I, Marc Chagall eagerly married the beautiful and well-educated Bella Rosenfeld in 1914, after mutual “love at first sight.” Wedding portraits are common in the history of art, but Chagall’s Double Portrait with Wine Glass defies typicality
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May 21, 2017 – July 30, 2017 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition “I had only to open my window, and blue air, love and flowers entered with her. She seemed to float over my canvases, guiding my art.” — Marc Chagall Amid the hardships of World War I, Marc Chagall eagerly married the beautiful and well-educated Bella Rosenfeld in 1914, after mutual “love at first sight.” Wedding portraits are common in the history of art, but Chagall’s Double Portrait with Wine Glass defies typicality
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