Everyone needs an art friend. Introducing Art Friend from MPR News, a new segment with the MPR News arts team. Art spaces can feel exclusive and art can be confusing, obtuse, even boring. But, ...

Laughter has its place but it can be awkward when it’s out of place. There is, for instance, something decidedly awkward when an audience fails to laugh at the punchline of a joke. Almost as awkward ...

SEQUIM — Peninsula Art Friends, a group of local artists who live and create water-media art in Sequim, invite the public to its inaugural annual Art Faire on Sept. 2-3. The exhibit will be from 10 ...

How do you review a novel when its author has already written a book-length work of criticism on it before it was published? The rise of the Creative Writing PhD in Australia has created this perhaps ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One historical site in Nashville is opening its doors for the first time in over a year this weekend. The Friends of Two Rivers is putting on the 15th annual “Phil the House” ...

I love my friends, and I’ve had some of them for over 20 years — but they aren’t good artists. I feel like I’ve forgotten how to make new friends. I don’t want to be a jerk and ditch them, but I feel ...

In 2021, The New York Times Magazine published a nearly-10,000-word feature titled “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” The piece was about a woman named Dawn Dorland, who donated a kidney to a stranger, ...

The voice of Our Generation, the poet, the critic, the documentarian, the historian, the spokesman, the promotor, the emcee, the writer who kept music alive in this city more than any other person in ...

Art friends make life richer, according to arts community leader Leilani Lewis. She says art friends can help you “deepen your understanding of yourself and the people around you.” If you want to make ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Among the more than 1,100 artist participating in ArtPrize is one whose art helped her cope with and overcome mental illness. Portals: In Nature We Heal by Art Possible, a ...

The trappings of MK Guth’s ‘Instructions for Drinking with a Friend’ (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The first thing I did, after entering the gallery and introducing ...