Lui Medina was at an artist’s residency in the medieval hilltop village of Caylus, a little bastide in the Midi-Pyrennes of France that appears frozen in time.  “It has only one café, one deli, a market that pops up once a week, and only one bus that comes to town in the morning. There wasn’t

If Korea doesn’t work, target overseas fans! The shameless formula for a comeback… Could Jung Joon Young be the next in line for release in March? Park Yoo Chun, involved in a drug scandal and owing 400 million in taxes, Kim Jung Hoon, embroiled in a drunk driving and pregnancy controversy, and Choi Jong-hoon, a

Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• When I moved to Minneapolis, my first week in the city, I went to a concert at the Lake Harriet Band Shell. I had relocated from Kansas after college seeking

An unsung master of movie magic, Solon Luigi Colani has worked on some of the biggest Hollywood movies ever shot in Germany and beyond, among them works by Quentin Tarantino, Ron Howard, George Clooney, Denis Villeneuve, Paul W.S. Anderson, Gore Verbinski and the Wachowskis. His enormous range of practical visual effects have also become regular

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Mural Arts Philadelphia is celebrating its fourth annual Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists with a new exhibition, open this month, featuring the work of 15 young Philadelphia artists. More than 35 works of art are on display at the Ubuntu Fine Arts Gallery in Germantown.Mural Arts’ fellowship was designed in 2020

St. Louis artists often struggle to gain exposure for their work. Many have found some by landing space in a gallery of sorts that’s visited by millions of people a year: St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The airport’s Art and Culture program includes 12 exhibition spaces for local artists throughout its spaces. Some work is

It was just 10 days after the Oct. 7 attack in Israel when the artist Zoya Cherkassky posted a drawing on her Instagram account. The drawing, “7 Oct. 2023,” depicts three generations of a family seemingly in hiding, the mother covering her baby’s mouth to keep it quiet; all stare desperately at the viewer, their

Wonderful fan creations that you can’t find anywhere else. We recently stopped by Wonder Festival, Japan’s biggest exhibition of anime and video game character models and figures, and shared a huge batch of photos covering the newest offerings from the industry’s most prominent companies. Wonder Festival isn’t only for the big fish of the figure

The decades-old tradition of radical printmaking at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts is still going strong, with two exhibitions featuring bold colors and designs — and even bolder political statements — open through Friday. Arte para el pueblo The first, called “Arte para el pueblo” or “Art for the people,” features some 40

Inside his home studio in New Orleans, artist Michael Deas can spend months working on a single oil painting. But collectors need only spend a few cents to own a print of his most popular works. His portraits sell for pennies. Deas has created 25 stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. “I have a friend