Twin Cities statues: ubiquitous but ‘not at the forefront’ of public art
“Public art has really moved away from that,” says Colleen Sheehy, executive director of Public Art Saint Paul.
Public art
St. Paul house is a folk-art stucco fantasia; Defiant Martin Luther statue watches over Concordia University
Two little known Twin Cities gems, a private residence and a singular Lutheran statue, are separated by centuries and a 15-minute walk.
Since Prince’s death, several sites are imbued with elevated meaning
So complete was his connection with the city that even physical sites with no obvious external association with Prince now seem intimately connected to him.
The flowering of utility boxes: Turning mysterious infrastructure into public art
What first appear to be the epitome of boring infrastructural blight can become one of the small ways that people begin to make meaning in their neighborhood.
Exploring Swede Hollow, once a neighborhood carved out of the wild
Within this secluded world there was a shantytown immigrant community from the 1850s through the 1950s — first Swedes and Poles, then Italians, then Mexicans.
Checking out Loring Park’s Ole Bull and other Twin Cities statues of cultural figures
The statue of Ole Bull was erected in Loring Park in 1897. Bull stands atop a pedestal, playing a violin, with a little line of music carved into the granite below him.
