Alicia Eler

6 days ago | startribune.com | Alicia Eler

Yankton Dakota artist Mary Sully opened a solo exhibition at the Met Museum in New York last summer, and right now she has a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Not bad for a reclusive artist who died in relative obscurity more than 60 years ago. Harvard professor Philip Deloria, who is also her great-nephew, brought her work back, but it wasn't an easy road.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Alicia Eler

A slab of gray clay with various pulsating lines, pokes and deep cuts carved into it wraps around the corner of a gallery wall. Elsewhere, a smooth yet jagged piece of blue hand-crafted glass, covered with similar carvings, hangs from the ceiling. In the middle of the gallery is an aluminum tray filled with ocean salt created through the process of desalination. It's been transformed into solid slabs and loose chunks.

1 week ago | telegraphherald.com | Alicia Eler

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1 week ago | telegraphherald.com | Alicia Eler

To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start. As a visual art critic and arts reporter, here’s what caught my eye when I was in Paris — and what I suggest doing when you go next. Time: 6-8 hours. Cost: About $23. What is it? The Louvre is one of the most famous art museums in the world.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Alicia Eler

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has hired higher education leader, professor and musician Gwendolyn Freed as its 20th president of the college following a national search. Freed, currently the interim chief development officer at Brookln Park-based Second Harvest Heartland, will lead the 800-student private nonprofit art college in Minneapolis known for drawing students from across the nation and internationally. She starts June 1.