The Minneapolis Institute of Arts puts the "fun" back into fundraising on September 28, with Art Perchance, the museum's annual evening of food, games, and drawings for unique works of art. The event is sponsored by The Friends of the Institute.

Actress and entertainer Debbie Reynolds opens this season’s Friend of the Institute lecture series at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Ms. Reynolds will speak about her remarkable collection of film costumes.

One of Japan’s most highly regarded lacquer artists is the subject of the exhibition “The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection.” Opening October 13 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), this exhibition features fifty-seven of Zeshin’s works from the largest and finest privately held collection in the United States.

An exhibition in two parts will highlight an extraordinary gift of fine photographs from Frederick B. Scheel to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Collected over a period of nearly forty years, this gift of more than six hundred prints comprises work by 106 masters of photography from the late nineteenth century until the 1960s.

Dazzling Central Asian textiles from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are on display in a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). Sixty dynamic and intricately patterned embroideries from the nomadic and rural peoples living along the fabled Silk Road are on view through August 26, 2007.

Human interaction with the environment is the focus of an exhibition featuring new work by two Minnesota artists. Drawings in Light: Jantje Visscher and Anastylosis: Drawings by Mary Griep are two exhibitions presented by the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, an artist-run curatorial department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.