Looks like Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has started sharing some of his visual work. Follow along with his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA Stories, or over at CHP In The Stacks. In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Enfilades     About  ...

Isaac Lowenthal Walsh is the true author of this post. He’s 11, though, a student in Minneapolis, and he doesn’t have a publicity photo or an official bio—yet. What he has is insight beyond his years. (In March, he reviewed Half Pint, the MIA’s new family restaurant.) And when he trained his eyes on two  ...

He’s been busy: drawing, photographing, taking notes, making unusually specific requests of the MIA librarians. Being Eric Hanson, basically, as Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, a curious kid in a candy store of historic imagery, news clippings, and ephemera. Here’s the latest download from his overstuffed mind. But first,  ...

The MIA is hosting author/illustrator Eric Hanson (that’s him in a self-portrait above and his artwork at left) as the Coffee House Press artist-in-residence inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library. And we couldn’t be more excited. Because, well, here’s his first blog entry from CHP In The Stacks (we’ll also be posting  ...

The MIA is hosting author/illustrator Eric Hanson (that’s him in a self-portrait above and his artwork at left) as the Coffee House Press artist-in-residence inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library. And we couldn’t be more excited. Because, well, here’s his first blog entry from CHP In The Stacks (we’ll also be posting  ...

I’m not going to tell you where to live. And even if I did, I’m afraid I couldn’t help you get there. Because it’d be Finland, a nation of five million frequently frozen souls (only slightly more than live in Minnesota) a long way from America, and not just physically. In the MIA’s sharp new  ...

I’m not going to tell you where to live. And even if I did, I’m afraid I couldn’t help you get there. Because it’d be Finland, a nation of five million frequently frozen souls (only slightly more than live in Minnesota) a long way from America, and not just physically. In the MIA’s sharp new  ...

God gives you a gift, you’ve got no right to neglect it*—a single-minded philosophy that’s driven many a man and woman, for better or worse, to great heights. Moses on Mount Sinai, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Michelle Bachmann on the steps of the Capitol. But how  ...

God gives you a gift, you’ve got no right to neglect it*—a single-minded philosophy that’s driven many a man and woman, for better or worse, to great heights. Moses on Mount Sinai, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Michelle Bachmann on the steps of the Capitol. But how  ...

Would you recognize a loved one’s eye—singular—without any other context? No hair, no mouth, no decolletage? More importantly, would anyone else—like her spouse? Opening May 16 at the MIA is “The Look of Love,” a fascinating and quirky exhibition that reveals a forgotten trend among the royals and upper class of England in the late  ...