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The Walker Art Center's artist-in-residence program is a dynamic framework that broadens the definition of artistic process and civic engagement. It is a collaboration among five partners: the artist, community connectors, project participants, general audience, and the cross-departmental resources of the Walker. The residency program allows the artist to explore his/her creative process while serving as a catalyst for the examination of vital issues that animate contemporary life.
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Darsie Alexander is the new chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, replacing Philippe Vergne, who is now director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Alexander had been senior curator and department head of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2005.
In June, the Dia Art Foundation announced that it had chosen Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2005, as its new director
In June, the Dia Art Foundation announced that it had chosen Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2005, as its new director. Dia's last director, Jeffrey Weiss, former head of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, resigned...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Olga Viso was named director of the Walker Art Center. She had been head of the Hirshhorn Museum since 2005.
"Brave New Worlds": Walker Art Center.
The Walker Art Center's "Brave New Worlds," curated by Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond, features twenty-four artists from around the globe and presents artistic practice as a means of exploring place and time in a world flattened by digital technologies, spectacle, and "free trade." Like Jorge...
Nam June on the Mississippi: near the start of his career, and again a decade later, Nam June Paik participated in major shows at the Walker Art Center. Here, the museum's then director recalls both the personal pleasures and high-tech perils of working t
The video artist and avant-garde musician Nam June Paik moved slowly in the restaurant line at the Walker Art Center on a warm spring day in 1975, scrutinizing each dish carefully and precariously piling those that looked most appealing on his tray. I followed, a few steps behind. Paik, a...
Film noir: on the occasion of Kara Walker's traveling midcareer survey, currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Carroll Dunham explores the artist's recent—and unexpected—turn to a new medium
Kara Walker's work seems to have always brought out the worst in her. Sadomasochistic, drunken, sexist, child-molesting racial profiles from some dawn time of rococo premodernism mingle and cavort, locked in unaffirmative action. One wonders if even she initially grasped the range of pictorial and associative possibilities in her signature...
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Peter Eleey, curator and producer at the New York-based public art organization Creative Time since 2002, has been named visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He is replaced by the curatorial team of Nato Thompson, curator at MASS MoCA, and Mark Beasley, a London-based independent curator,...
Bilbao in Minneapolis.(Walker Art Center and Children's Theatre Company expansion plans)(Brief Article)
MINNEAPOLIS: With the physical expansions of the Walker Art Center last spring and the Children's Theatre Company this fall, Minneapolis is certifiably ushering in a new era of its cultural history, if we are to believe Twin Cities scenesters like Guthrie Theater artistic director Joe Dowling....
Precious metal: a new era of bespoke systems of structure and cladding is testing metals and architectural imagination to their limits
The Machine Age was the golden age of metals. Constituting both the means and end to production, machine tools and the goods they produced during the past 150 years fundamentally changed the way we live. Consumer society, for better or worse, was nourished on a diet of metal products ranging...
Extending eclecticism: Herzog & de Meuron bring a new sense of animation and dynamism to a historic Midwest cultural institution
Faced with the task of expanding the Walker Art Center, designed by Edward Larabee Barnes and completed in 1971, Herzog & de Meuron have both respected the old and flamboyantly identified the new. Established in the late nineteenth century and housed in a number of buildings during its life, the...
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