foot rail

In the gallery’s viewing room, as part of Aki Sasamoto’s concurrent show “Past in a future tense,” the Japanese-born performance and installation artist has built a long, narrow bar, complete with brass foot rail and a lone pocket umbrella hanging bravely from its coat hook, and two high bar tables with heavy iron feet.

But at several new restaurants, the richly glowing golden metal is on the surface of the bar, not just the foot rail.

The foot board is new, but Shaut measured the height and depth of the foot rail at McKeever’s so it could be replicated and regulars would feel right at home.

The trip is made by boat, foot, rail and bus — and over the more than 1,000 miles between jumping off points in Turkey and the safety of Germany, smugglers are almost always involved in at least part of the journey, law enforcement officials say.

The foot rail at the bar is a nod to the train tracks across the parking lot; a collection of the wildlife art series of Schmidt beer cans is a hat tip to another former Minneapolis brew.