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Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art.

The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collection, Risha Lee will explore some of the themes and concepts that tie these objects together, as well as their interwoven and global histories. Collectively, they point to the rich diversity of artistic traditions that comprise India and Southeast Asia.

$10; $5 for MIA members; free for members of the Asian Art Affinity Group. To reserve tickets, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve tickets online »

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Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison

Wells Fargo Community Room

Presenter: W. Jackson Rushing III

Join us for an illustrated lecture that documents, celebrates, and investigates the artistic achievement of George Morrison, the distinguished and beloved Chippewa modernist (1919-2000) whose artwork is held in numerous public and private collections. Morrison's journey from impoverished rural origin to international acclaim is a remarkable Minnesota story about regionalism, expatriation, urbanity, and homecoming, in which the significance of place is embedded in drawings, paintings, collages, prints, and sculptures.

Often inspired by land, water, and sky, Morrison mixed abstraction with representation to produce sensuous works of art that explore form, color, and texture. His award-winning wood collages and monumental totems were remarkable contributions to American modernism and have much to offer viewers in the 21st century.

W. Jackson Rushing III, PhD, is Eugene B. Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair at the University of Oklahoma. He is curator of the traveling retrospective exhibition, "Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison," which opens at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo on June 16.

Admission: $10; $5 for MIA members; free to Native American Art Affinity Group members. To reserve tickets, call (612) 870-6323 or go to tickets.artsmia.org.

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More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness

Ending Soon!

Thursday, March 21, 2013—Sunday, June 9, 2013
Target Gallery (admission charged)
Ticketed Exhibition (FREE for members!)

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