Profile: Andy Sturdevant
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Five highlights from 2008.
The death of Senator Jesse Helms.
“A Day Without Art” in Minnesota, two decades later.
On December 1, 1989, about six hundred galleries, museums and arts organizations across America, concentrated primarily in New York but including some here in the Twin Cities, observed the first "A Day Without Art." Coordinated by a New York-based group called Visual AIDS, the idea was for these institutions to mark the impact that the AIDS epidemic had made in the art world by shutting dow
Oh No! Elitists on the Horizon!
I was recently in Oakland, California, spending the afternoon watching some hipster bands play a house show in a sort of art-school punk-rock party compound, complete with barbed wire fencing all around the perimeter of the backyard (this is the sort of exotic jet-setting one does when one is an art blogger). I was having a good time, but after an hour or so, all the skinny kids thrashing away on their instruments were becoming less and less distinguishable, so I decided to wander elsewhere in the house to see what things I could find there.
One Day, One Night, Saturday's Alright
AMONG THE GREAT unanswerable questions that haunt our city is this one: Why is there a giant, crappy K-Mart superstore sitting in the middle of Nicollet Avenue?
Yes We Can!
Bad design is all around us, but there's no bad design like bad election year design. Let's take a moment here to catalog some notable atrocities from recent election cycles, and then hang our heads in bipartisan shame. Offender number one is Bush/Cheney's militantly mindless logo from 2004; you can almost hear the designer making phlegmatic war movie sound effects to himself as he drafted it.
