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Trisha Brown Draws on Her Muse—on Paper and Onstage Matt Peiken March 2008 In the 1970s, Trisha Brown created notational drawings as road maps for her dancers. Today, one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance draws with abandon, largely as a personal, impulsive expression unto itself. That is, of course, when she can muster the time. If she isn't steering the... read more » |
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JoAnn Verburg St. Paul photographer’s work invites immersion Matt Peiken January 2008 JoAnn Verburg holds two St. Paul zip codes--one for the apartment she shares with her husband, poet Jim Moore, and one for her studio, just south of the Wabasha Street bridge. But Verburg's photography has always had a trajectory far beyond the Twin Cities. Many subjects of the portraits,... read more » |
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Partnering for Picasso MIA lends key paintings to Walker show Rachel Hooper July 2007 In 1942, artist John Graham organized an exhibition in New York that was in many ways the precursor to Picasso and American Art. Just as the Walker’s show pairs works by important American artists with the Picasso pieces that inspired them, Graham’s juxtaposed... read more » |
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Silhouettes and Stereotypes Kathy Halbreich March 2007 Kara Walker’s purposefully provocative and seductively graphic work is difficult. It confounds, and sometimes offends. In addressing the concerns of some viewers, I’ve tried to convey that part of our mission as a cultural institution is to represent many different value systems, to give space,... read more » |
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Conceptual Café The story behind Gallery 8’s masterful mural September 2006 Senior registration technician Dave Bartley bristles, just a little, when he sees people ignoring the bold geometric patterns that illuminate the walls of Gallery 8 Café by Wolfgang Puck. And pity the hapless soul who, not realizing the mural is an artwork in the Walker collection, leans against... read more » |
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An Ordinary Interview Jay Heikes/Adam Helms/Rodney McMillian September 2006 Linoleum, masks, and punchlines: the everyday materials and themes in the work on view in Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian live up to the exhibition’s title, but the interplay between elements in each work—and between works by other artists—makes this... read more » |
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Backyard Anthropology Curator Ralph Rugoff on Cameron Jamie’s “amateur ethnography” Ralph Rugoff September 2006 Like the work of a growing number of contemporary artists, Cameron Jamie’s art at times seems to overlap with the concerns and methodologies of visual anthropology. A number of his major projects, after all, have documented the rites, rituals, and artifacts of specific subcultures in Europe as... read more » |
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8-Ball: Sharon Lockhart Sharon Lockhart is known for making formally rigorous films and still photographs in staged settings. Represented in the Walker collection by a multimedia work, photos, and multiples, the artist recently took a moment to answer some of life’s most—and possibly least—pressing questions. ... read more » |
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Kiki Smith: Keeping the Faith Kiki Smith/Lynne Tillman March 2006 By calling Lynne Tillman’s work “so striking and original that it transforms the way you see the world, the way you think about and interact with your surroundings,” the Los Angeles Reader might as easily be describing Kiki Smith’s powerful yet vulnerable art as... read more » |
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Pondering “America” Two European transplants discuss curating the country’s top survey of art Chrissie Iles/Philippe Vergne March 2006 “It’s impossible to be bound by national borders when one talks about aesthetics. Nationality is not an aesthetic category, and I truly hope it never will be.” —Philippe Vergne This year’s edition of the... read more » |