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Stories from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a world-class museum inspiring wonder through the power of art.

Anne Frank’s Legacy Distorted the Holocaust

Anne Frank’s Legacy Distorted the Holocaust

Ensuring the reckoning, in works like “The Nazi Drawings,” would be as shocking as it was overdue
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Jun 7
I’ll Tell You No Lies

I’ll Tell You No Lies

The uncompromising art and life and Louise Catherine Breslau
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Jun 2
The Thrill of the Chase

The Thrill of the Chase

They spent 30 years hunting forgotten artworks. Now a museum exhibition shares their treasures.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Jun 2
How to Shift Museum Space to Native Place

How to Shift Museum Space to Native Place

Following Indigenous modes of curation, a museum upends the usual narrative of Native art
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Apr 19
“There were beautiful people there”

“There were beautiful people there”

A photographer reflects on portraits of Ukraine
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mar 10
The Psychic Sculptor

The Psychic Sculptor

She was one of the world’s most famous artists. But it was the spirit world that truly called to her.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Feb 24
The Forgotten History of the Holocaust

The Forgotten History of the Holocaust

For years after World War II, the Jewish genocide was ignored, forgotten, or misunderstood. What changed?
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Feb 1
Let It Breathe

Let It Breathe

Can wacky, waving, inflatable tubes help explain climate science?
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Feb 1
How to Save a Book

How to Save a Book

It’s lasted nearly 700 years. Now a Late-Gothic masterwork should last even longer.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Feb 1
The Nazi Drawings Revisited

The Nazi Drawings Revisited

First shown to wide acclaim in the 1960s, the raw depictions of evil still have the power to shock
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Oct 14, 2021
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