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Review: ‘Giants’ at the Minneapolis Institute of Art delivers bold, big, colorful works

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1 year ago

March 6, 2025

Review: ‘Giants’ at the Minneapolis Institute of Art delivers bold, big, colorful works

Two effervescent paintings of Baltimore-based guys riding colorful dirt bikes, popping wheelies against a bright blue background, show “Black people doing stuff,” in the words of artist Amy Sherald. Giant paintings by Meleko Mokgosi cleverly use an 18th-century European history painting style to discuss gender politics, colonialism, class and power in Botswana. Jamel Shabazz’s candid street photographs of Black people in New York from the 1980s to the mid-2010s show youth on the subway, a mother wearing a gold chain, holding her child, who’s clad in a blue puffy coat.

The 2022 painting “Deliverance” by Amy Sherald is in the exhibition “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. (Carlos Gonzalez)

These are just a few of nearly 100 works in “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,” a show that originated at the Brooklyn Museum and opens Saturday at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The timing of this show is charged. It just missed Black History Month, but arrives shortly before the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. It speaks loudly to the current moment of the Trump administration’s withholding institutional and grant-based funding for exhibitions and projects by artists — including artists of color and queer people.

Photographs by Gordon Parks are in the last gallery of “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. (Carlos Gonzalez)

The show ends with Gordon Parks’ pictures of racism, segregation and the long road to the Civil Rights-era giants, bringing it all back to Minnesota. The show also features artists of the global Black diaspora from South Africa, Mali, Botswana, Morocco, Jamaica, and Burkina Faso, among other countries.

There’s much to like in this beautiful show, but there are a few quirks. The Deans mostly collect figurative work — portraying figures and objects from real life. So, that’s the majority of work in the exhibit.

Brooklyn Museum Curator Kimberli Gant didn’t want people to assume that Black diaspora artists made only large figurative work, because they don’t, so she was sure to include abstract works, sculpture and more.

“I tried to look at ‘Giants’ as a thesis, look at ways of how could we play with that title,” Gant said. “When you say ‘giants,’ what could people understand of that?”

She organized the show into four sections: “Becoming Giants,” “Giant Presence,” “Giant Conversation” and “On the Shoulders of Giants.”

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Child seriously injured after being struck by car while playing in alley

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June 21, 2026

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Child seriously injured after being struck by car while playing in alley

A child was seriously injured after a car hit them in an alley in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

Minneapolis police say a child was playing in an alley near 29th Avenue North and Lyndale Avenue North around 11:30 a.m. when a car hit them. The child was brought to the hospital with potentially-life-threatening injuries, police added.

The child’s age was not released by law enforcement.

The driver of the car stayed at the scene and is cooperating with law enforcement, Minneapolis police said.

There have been no arrests at this time.

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Minneapolis man jailed after allegedly stabbing a woman on Pillsbury Avenue

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10 hours ago

June 20, 2026

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Minneapolis man jailed after allegedly stabbing a woman on Pillsbury Avenue

A Minneapolis man is behind bars after stabbing a woman early Saturday morning.

According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers responded to a stabbing around 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of W 24th St. and Pillsbury Avenue. Officers found an adult woman with a non-life-threatening injury consistent with an edged blade.

Authorities said a man known to the woman stabbed her after a verbal argument escalated.

Police arrested a 49-year-old man and is currently at the Hennepin County Jail, pending a second-degree domestic assault charge.

Police said no one else was hurt. The case remains under investigation.

If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, several resources are available to offer help. For immediate help, contact:

More than 12 million people just in the U.S. are affected by domestic violence every year, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

The organizations listed above can help connect victims to resources like safe shelter, advocacy, legal help and support groups.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline also offers tips for identifying abuse and supporting victims of abuse. CLICK HERE to see those.

Other organizations that can help include:

Minnesota also has a list of many other resources for victims of crimes that can be found HERE.

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MERAUDER, JUDGE, ARKANGEL and many more announced for Minneapolis’ Snow and Flurry 2026

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21 hours ago

June 20, 2026

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MERAUDER, JUDGE, ARKANGEL and many more announced for Minneapolis’ Snow and Flurry 2026

The lineup has been announced for the 2026 edition of Snow & Flurry, set for October 10th and 11th at Underground Music Cafe in Minneapolis, MN. Judge, Merauder, and Arkangel will headline the two-day event also featuring 25+ more acts in total.

Weekend passes are available now, with single-day tickets and daily lineups to be announced later.

Passes are available here.

Line up in order of flyer:

Judge
Merauder
Arkangel
The Killer
Nehemiah
Another Enemy
Awaiting Eschiel
Basic Needs
Blistered Spirit
Blood Stained Concrete
Cudgel
Direct Order
Dose
Enemy Of Man
Enervate
Ethic
Eyes Of Sorrow
Fleshless Body
Lead Spirit
Madman
Meantime
Neolithic
Passion
Self Interest
Shits Creek
Sin Sufrir
Skewed
What Counts
Withdrawal
Wrath Of Sanity
Velocity