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Kiki Smith: ‘Constellation’ at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1996)

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Kim Jongsook ‘김종숙’ (b. 1968, South Korea) - from Artificial Landscape series, Mixed Media on Canvas, made with Swarovski’s Cut Crystals (2012)

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Midnight Weirdness at the Uptown Theater, Minneapolis, 1978

Minneapolis’s Uptown Theater introduced midnight showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on May 19, 1978. It was the beginning an impressive 18-year run.

Photo via Minnesota Historical Society

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Screen Shot of Early-Generation “Oregon Trail”

Don Rawitsch, a student teacher in North Minneapolis, was struggling to find a way to make the concept of westward expansion interesting to the kids in his history class. Then he hit on a radical idea: why not create a computer game in which the students could assume the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers through the American West? (Remember, this was way back when computers were the size of Ford Pintos.) With help from a pair of fellow Carleton College students, he developed a game called “Oregon Trail,” and on December 3, 1971, he introduced it to his class. It was an instant hit. A couple years later, Rawitsch took a job with Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), a state-funded developer of educational software. He uploaded “Oregon Trail” to MECC’s time-sharing network, and the game won a slew of new fans. When MECC made the jump to Apple II computers in 1978, “Oregon Trail” migrated to the new platform. It soon established itself as the premiere educational computer game, played by millions of kids worldwide.

More at Minnesota in the 70s

Image via ENGL 278W