We devote an entire half-hour to exploring the Twin Cities’ two major studio tours of local visual artists — the St. Paul Art Crawl and Minneapolis’ Art-a-Whirl. Tune into the MN Channel of Twin Cities Public Television 9 pm Saturday or 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday.
Archive for June, 2009
19 Jun
Episode #3 on TPT
This weekend’s televised episode of 3-Minute Egg features dance duets Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting, master’s thesis projects from art students at University of Minnesota, jazz from the Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis, prose from a collective of black writers and neighborhood-based theater from Charles Campbell. Tune into or TiVo the MN Channel of TPT [...]
18 Jun
Hijacking Mad King Thomas
Veteran dance duo Hijack asked emerging dance trio Mad King Thomas to choreograph pieces on each other for the Red Eye’s Isolated Acts series of new work. The results have become Maybe — on stage this weekend, and on screen here in this experimental Egg from 3-Minute Egg, which interviewed the groups separately and taped [...]
17 Jun
McKnight Photography Fellows
The 2007 McKnight Artist Fellows in Photography are showing off the fruits of their opportunities at Franklin Art Works. 3-Minute Egg met with three of the four artists — Peter Latner, Paula McCartney and Anthony Marchetti — at the opening reception. The fourth artist is Tom Wik, who didn’t want to be interviewed. The exhibition [...]
16 Jun
Maria Isa’s Street Politics
Maria Isa grew up in a household on St. Paul’s West Side steeped in Puerto Rican culture, music and activism, yet Isa hasn’t lost sight of her Minnesota surroundings. Her music reflects that hybrid — a bilingual dose of soul, hip-hop and Latin rhythms supporting Isa’s uplifting lyrics and addictive delivery. 3-Minute Egg went to [...]
12 Jun
Episode #2 on TPT
Don’t forget to watch or TiVo the next episode of 3-Minute Egg on the MN Channel of TPT: 9 pm Saturday, with repeats 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday. We take you behind the buzz of the local sci-fi film Phasma Ex Machina, into a rehearsal with Shapiro & Smith Dance, a morning [...]
11 Jun
New Works at the Red Eye
For 25 years, the Red Eye Theater has encouraged local creativity and exploration through its New Works festival. A handful of works-in-progress launched the latest rendition of the festival, as caught by the lens of 3-Minute Egg. New Works continues the next three weekends with work by Dominic Orlando, collaborative dance by Hijack and Mad [...]
9 Jun
The Screen / The Thing
Justin Jones moved from New York to the Twin Cities only five years ago — he came here with Tere O’Connor on his dance resume — but he’s already carved a home for himself in the local avant garde movement scene (he was a 2007 McKnight Fellow, and City Pages named him Artist of the [...]
