What is art?

Just kidding. Rather than quibble all day over such unanswerable questions, why not just find stuff you like and look at it?

That plan is easily fulfilled right now -- at an impromptu art show in the raw space formerly known as Shinders.

Just a few weeks before opening, artist Matthew Bakkom, who is staging a solo show a few blocks away at the Chambers, called up some of his friends -- such as Jay Heikes, Aaron Spangler and Alec Soth -- and pulled together a pop-up exhibition.

Much of the art reflects the theme of money -- there's a make-your-own credit card station (they might really work!) by Morgan Adamson and a graphic "Monopoly" wallpaper design featuring nearly life-size trees that are actually made of rendered dollar bill bark by Gudrun Lock. There are also site-specific pieces such as a pillar covered with rubbings of the building's various textures by Janet Lobberecht and a graphic interpretation of what used to be the bathroom by Luisa Fda Garcia G. And others that just look at home, much like the gold-plated bronze rabbit and silver logs of Still Life with Hare (pictured) by Alexa Horochowski.

It's not curated so much as a motley collection of contemporary pieces, but yet, somehow, under a ragged and slightly drippy ceiling, everything came together and something magical happened.

In other words, art.

So there.

Shinders Show, 733 Hennepin Av., Mpls., through Oct. 30. Hours: Thur. 2 to 8 p.m., Fri. 2 to 10 p.m. and Sat., noon to 5 p.m. as well as by appointment by calling Jennifer Phelps at 612-767-6824. Most artwork is for sale with prices from $200 to $24,000.

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