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Benches & Binoculars: A Closer Look at Old Favorites and New Acquisitions Darsie Alexander November 2009 The way that exhibitions originate often plays a determining role in their final execution, and the kernels of inspiration are frequently the most enduring. The idea for Benches & Binoculars began about a year ago with a photograph from an early moment in Walker... read more » |
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Shared Discovery of What We Have and Know Already Haegue Yang’s Artist-in-Residence Project November 2009 Over the years, the Walker has invited more than 200 artists from different disciplines to spend time at the institution working on various projects. This fall, in conjunction with her solo exhibition, Haegue Yang arrived with several new twists on the artist-in-residence concept, which, as she... read more » |
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Dan Graham: Beyond An American original—inside and out November 2009 Dan Graham’s Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth has been on permanent display in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden since 1996. Visiting the Walker on a sunny morning last August, the artist and a few curators strolled down to look at the work. They were... read more » |
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Event Horizon: Postwar Art from the Walker's Holdings Darsie Alexander November 2009 Event Horizon. Bringing to mind deep space and gravitational pulls, this suggestive phrase, repurposed from the world of science, here serves the more creative aim of framing the Walker’s newly installed permanent collection exhibition—a cross-disciplinary blend of... read more » |
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Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider Doryun Chong September 2009 Poetry, politics, and human emotion inform Haegue Yang’s practice—and its relationship to the everyday. Over the past few years, working with nontraditional materials such as customized venetian blinds and electrical devices, the Berlin/Seoul–based artist has created a... read more » |
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Ceramics Appeal: Three Views on Contemporary Clay August 2009 As the curators of Dirt on Delight predicted, presenting an exhibition about dirt will bring the clay artists out of the studio. While researching the show last winter, Walker coordinating curator Andria Hickey, quickly found out that a number of Minneapolis’ best... read more » |
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Painting the Essence of an Era Laura Hoptman March 2009 One of the extraordinary things about Elizabeth Peyton’s oeuvre is that it can serve as a chronicle of a particular period—at a certain moment in the history of culture in certain places among a few people who were enthusiastically making it. Sometimes they knew each other; sometimes they were... 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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Composing the Contemporary Collection July 2008 In a Walker exhibition of the not-too-distant future, you’ll see a piece by San Francisco–based artist Trisha Donnelly. In 2005 the Walker acquired its first work by Donnelly—a drawing entitled Bend Sinister (2004)—and over the past two years has added two... read more » |
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Trailer Made Philippe Vergne May 2008 ... read more » |