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2021 tempted us to "get back to normal," but the Twin Cities arts scene largely resisted and innovated by staging events outside, charging bouncers with the task of checking vaccination statuses, producing virtual art exhibits and fusing art forms to continue healing. Through it all, MinneCulture producers brought you timely arts stories as well as Minnesota history stories, told with modern and progressive voices. Here are some of the most memorable stories from 2021, as selected by the MinneCuture editorial team.

*** Leif Brush was a pioneering sound artist based in Duluth, Minnesota since the 1970s. His Terrain Instruments were just some of the audible sculptures that isolated and emphasised the sounds of otherwise natural phenomena. In the forest outside Leif’s home in Duluth, he built a unique method of recording natural phenomena. The installation was called Terrain Instruments. Long ribbons of gleaming wire slashed overhead. Flat metal discs were suspended from thick cable. Both were connected with transducers running to a preamplifier, and then to an audio mixer. “The inherent dynamics of...