The daily digest of Twin Cities culture | Secrets of the City

BENEFIT EVENT
Franconia Benefit/Chris Larson Artist Talk

PERFORMANCE
Lula Washington Dance Theater + Vusi Mahlasela

It is not unusual for me to feel like an outsider. I am never sure if this is just a function of being a shy person, the remnants of the experience of being a young immigrant, or if I simply revel in an oppositional stance. Perhaps it is a mixture of all these things, or maybe one thing just leads to another.

The melancholy in the eyes of the gorilla imprisoned in the zoo, I think it is real. He is confounded by the loss of his freedom. He sorrows at what his captors have evolved into.

Minneapolis has two life-size bronze sculptures of gorillas by the late British artist Angus Fairhurst, who this past March committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a forest in England at the age of 41. One of them is in the courtyard of the Chambers Hotel at Ninth and Hennepin; the other is sited on the green outside the west window of the Walker Art Center.