Target Free Thursday Nights at the Walker Art Center offer visitors a chance to enjoy an exhibition, take in a lecture, watch a film, take part in a workshop, and ask questions every Thursday night from 5–9 pm.

The Minnesota Orchestra’s three-week Percussion Festival concludes with a bang on June 5 and 6 as Scottish percussion virtuoso Colin Currie joins the Orchestra for performances of Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, a concerto by Currie’s countryman James MacMillan. Music Director Osmo Vänskä conducts the program, which opens with Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us—a work featured at the Orchestra’s December 2006 Future Classics concert—and concludes with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 6.

The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in June are highlighted by the finals of the teen artists competition 20 Under 20, presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC).

This October the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) will present its 25th annual Antiques Show and Sale. This sale is the leading antiques show of its kind in the upper Midwest. Featuring forty nationally renowned dealers, the exhibition offers a broad array of objects for purchase ranging from eighteenth-century English silver and nineteenth-century American folk art to twentieth-century Modernist design and everything in-between.

Seventy-five years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, America was gripped by staggering unemployment, farm drought, and a floundering manufacturing industry. In response, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal—a massive federal relief and reform effort—in 1933. Of the millions of Americans employed by New Deal programs, thousands were artists.

America's first movement of creative photography and its revolutionary founder, Peter Henry Emerson, are the subjects of a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA.) Nearly one hundred naturalistic photographs by Emerson and twenty other photographers will be on view through September 7, 2008.

The Walker Art Center presents the area premiere of Carlos Brooks' Quid Pro Quo, Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm, the latest film in the series Premieres: First Look, an ongoing presentation of area premieres that gives audiences an early look at tomorrow's critically acclaimed classics. Producer Sarah Pillsbury (Desperately Seeking Susan, River's Edge, Eight Men Out, And the Band Played On) will introduce the film and participate in a post-screening conversation.

June tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to get outside and explore the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden during Walker Inside Out: Art goes outdoors, a summerlong celebration honoring the Garden's 20th anniversary.

Hendrick Ter Brugghen's seventeenth-century Dutch masterpiece The Gamblers will be on view for the first time at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) after an extended stay at the Getty Conservation Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Calling a Bluff: Hendrick Ter Brugghen's The Gamblers" presents the painting with its new, dramatic look, which captures the work as the artist originally intended.

In their own words, the directors of Australia's Back to Back Theatre create "locally devised, globally relevant and significant theater." This ambition plays out in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in a show where two men who normally escape notice—seemingly mentally disabled and possibly homeless—play inadvertent but pivotal roles in the lives of two ambitious executives.

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis, the late Japanese artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, premieres at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 18, 2008–January 11, 2009.

In a new Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) exhibition, Minnesota photographer Vance Gellert examines the nature of healing in his photographs of medicinal practices in South America. Gellert’s vibrant, large-scale photographs of native healers, rituals, and plants convey the beauty and mystery of the land and its people, as well as illustrate how art can contribute to scientific understanding.