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Featured Exhibition
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
March 22 - September 14 Nobody cannibalizes an image like Richard Prince, who has carved his place in contemporary art by recycling, reflecting, and reframing photographs, cartoons, advertisements, and other images already existing in the public sphere. It’s a practice cut from 1970s and ’80s SoHo—Cindy Sherman, Jenny... read more » |
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Collecting Energy
Museo aero solar meets the Twin Cities September 2008 In the view of artist Tomás Saraceno, there’s nowhere for society to go but up. His floating sculptures employ principles from engineering, aeronautics, and architecture that rethink the way we experience space and relate to forms and to one another. Indebted to the ideas championed by... read more » |
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Walker Channel
 Trisha Brown Drawing/Performance Thursday, April 17  In conjunction with an exhibition of her drawings, modern dance legend Trisha Brown improvises movements across a large piece of paper placed on the Medtronic Gallery floor. Part of Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing. read more » Related Visual Arts Links
Department Information Since the Walker Art Center's founding in 1940, special exhibitions have been a cornerstone of its program, and they are, along with stewardship of the collections and management of commissions and artists' residencies, the principal responsibilities of the Visual Arts Department. These three... read more » |
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How to Rally a Band of QueersAndria Hickey Fri, 08 Aug 2008 Sharon Hayes, ‘In the Near Future, London, 2008′, Multiple-slide-projection installation, 3 actions, 3 projections; 243 slides, Courtesy Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin As some of you might know, the Walker Art Center is a local partner, with the Unconvention, in Creative Time's presentation of Sharon Hayes' participatory performance project, Revolutionary Love 2: I am your best [...] read more » Acquisitions
 DeLuxe Ellen Gallagher 2004/2005 aquatint, dry-point, photogravure, spit-bite, lithography, screenprint, embossing, tattoo machine engraving, laser-cutting, collage, crystals, cut paper, enamel, glitter, gold leaf, gouache, graphite, oil, plasticine, polymer medium, pomade, toy eyeballs, watercolor, velvet on paper; edition 11/20 Published by Two Palms Press, New York Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965) is known for employing potent visual symbols to reveal sly musings on the history of racial identity in America. She gained attention in the 1990s with paintings that initially appeared abstract and minimal, with a subtle palette and geometry. The delicate grids... read more » In The Shop
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