It’s a special episode of Minnesota Now — the MPR News Arts team is taking over with a full hour of arts coverage.

They took a look at the story of a set of theater seats the arts team purchased at the beginning of the year, and the rabbit hole it sent them down to track the seats’ decades-long journey.

Senior arts reporter and critic Alex V. Cipolle took a trip down to Winona with her latest installment of Art Friend, as she examined old landscape paintings in a new way.

Minnesota band Red Thread stopped by with some insights into what inspires their performance of folk music and original songs. The band also performed a few of their latest songs.

Celebrity Chef Katie Chin, daughter of restaurateur Leeann Chin joined the show to talk about growing up in Minnesota and the play she wrote about her mom.