Current Exhibitions

	Exhibition Benches & Binoculars Linda and Lawrence Perlman Gallery, November 21, 2009 - August 15, 2010 A reminder that all art was at one time contemporary, this exhibition is inspired both by the Walker's history and the serendipity with which works come together in its storage vaults. More than 75 masterpieces, new discoveries, and notable oddities from the Walker collection crowd the gallery... read more »

	Exhibition Event Horizon Galleries 1, 2, 3, November 21, 2009 - August 26, 2012 Highlights and hidden secrets of the Walker’s contemporary art collections are presented in a lively sequence of rotations that unfold throughout the exhibition’s run. Inspired by the idea of the event horizon, a term that describes the edge of observable space,... read more »

	Exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond Galleries 4, 5, 6, October 31, 2009 - January 24, 2010 One of contemporary art's most innovative figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of numerous artistic developments since the 1960s, from the rise of conceptualism and minimalism to video and performance to explorations of architecture and the culture of rock and roll. His rejection of the... read more »

	Exhibition Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider Medtronic Gallery, September 24, 2009 - February 28, 2010 From mundane objects and materials such as venetian blinds, theatrical and decorative lights, infrared heaters, scent emitters, and fans, Haegue Yang creates complex and nuanced installations that are informed by poetry, politics, and human emotions. This solo exhibition, Yang’s first in a U.S.... read more »

	Exhibition Robert Irwin: Slant/Light/Volume Friedman Gallery, August 6, 2009 - November 21, 2010 Throughout his long career, Robert Irwin has pondered whether we ever have an absolutely pure or direct moment in front of a work of art. This installation, last on view 20 years ago, represents his effort to foster such an experience. Part of a series of powerful—and temporary—works the artist... read more »

	Exhibition Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay Target Gallery, July 11 - November 29, 2009 This exhibition presents significant work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations. Ranging from modestly scaled pots to figurines to large sculptures, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations among fine art, craft, and outsider practices. Collectively they suggest that... read more »

	Exhibition Elemental Peggy and Ralph Burnet Gallery, April 17, 2005 - January 24, 2010 By the mid-1960s, critics and artists heralded the arrival of Minimalism, an idea-based sensibility that seemed more in keeping with America’s embrace of its burgeoning space program and new technologies than the Abstract Expressionists’ mining or the subjective and the Pop artists’ adoption of... read more »