It would be unpatriotic of me to suggest an art tour that wasn't the Art Crawl — a tour you make yourself of 250 artists' studios and galleries in more than two-dozen buildings.

When photographer Carroll T. Hartwell died last year he left 10,000 ghosts in the galleries and storage rooms of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Every Friday, MinnPost arts writer Jeff Severns Guntzel designs a custom weekend tour based on a theme of Twin Cities galleries, museums, public art and performance spaces.

It's a strange thing, but John Vogt seems to be intimate with battleships and mountains. What's stranger still is the way that intimacy is contagious through his art. His battleships — whether on paper or sculpted of paper — are lonely and vulnerable things. His mountains, too. Maybe that's because they are more about loneliness and vulnerability than they are about steel and rock.

Editor's note: Every Friday, MinnPost arts writer Jeff Severns Guntzel designs a custom weekend tour based on a theme of Twin Cities galleries, museums, public art and performance spaces.

St. Paul photographer Karolina Karlic was 23 and working in the photo studio of the Marshall Field's ad department in 2006. She hated it there. She was an artist, but that didn't matter between the hours of 9 and 5. Whenever she could swing it — at lunch breaks and during photo shoots — she was online and poring over the "Missed Connections" section of the omnipotent want-ad website Craigslist, a space reserved for the desperate and often poetic efforts of men and women hoping against hope for an alternative to lonely.

Hail to the Chief! -- and other farewell art for our 43rd president

It's amazing the things artists, galleries, and museums will place in front of us expecting us not to touch. You don't touch the art — and mostly you don't need to be reminded.