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More About the Program Contact Information Curatorial Fellowships Provenance Research Project Visual Arts Blog Past Exhibitions 135 Articles 165 All Blogs Video Trailer Rediscover the Garden Jun 2017 Dialogue / Interview teamLab: Graffiti Nature–Still Mountains and Movable Lakes May 2017 Untitled (Blog) Cultivating the Garden for Art: Curatorial and Civic Thinking Behind a Reanimated Green Space May 2017 Trailer Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Fund May 2017 Untitled (Blog) Insistent Presences: Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) Apr 2017 Untitled (Blog) Imagining the Future Before Us: Forward to Sharon Louden’s The Artist as Culture Producer Mar 2017 Artist Talk Artist Talk + Op-Ed Launch: Postcommodity Mar 2017 Untitled (Blog) Aesthetic Portals: A Postcommodity Primer Mar 2017 Untitled (Blog) Cultivating the Garden for Art: Curatorial and Civic Thinking Behind a Reanimated Green Space May 2017 Untitled (Blog) Insistent Presences: Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) Apr 2017 Untitled (Blog) Imagining the Future Before Us: Forward to Sharon Louden’s The Artist as Culture Producer Mar 2017 Untitled (Blog) Aesthetic Portals: A Postcommodity Primer Mar 2017 Untitled (Blog) Strengthening our Cultural Defense: The Walker’s Pledge on Arts Advocacy Day Feb 2017 Untitled (Blog) A Reading List for the New America Jan 2017 Untitled (Blog) 2016: The Year According to Noah Fischer Dec 2016 Untitled (Blog) 2016: The Year According to Decolonize This Place Dec 2016 Trailer Rediscover the Garden Jun 2017 Dialogue / Interview teamLab: Graffiti Nature–Still Mountains and Movable Lakes May 2017 Trailer Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Fund May 2017 Artist Talk Artist Talk + Op-Ed Launch: Postcommodity Mar 2017 Commentary The Six Sides of Merce Cunningham Feb 2017 Trailer Merce Cunningham: Common Time Feb 2017 Commentary Zigzagging Between Public and Private: Tom Burr on Philip Johnson, Sexuality and Architecture Jan 2017 Trailer A New Sculpture Garden Dec 2016 Featured Exhibition Performances Opening Celebration: Common Time __ More Featured Article By Jack Whitten Art in Times of Unspeakable Violence In celebration of Jack Whitten being honored with a National Medal of Arts on September 22, 2016, we revisit the painter’s 2015 Artist Op-Ed, a powerful personal essay on the potential for art in times of violence and injustice. More Gary Simmons Forward Ever, Backward Never Gary Simmons created Everforward —a pair of gleaming white boxing gloves embroidered with the words Everforward” and Neverback”—in response to troubled times: the killing of Yusef Hawkins, recession, the AIDS epidemic, the Crown… More João Enxuto & Erica Love Critical Administration: On Artstrike and Institutions What will the relationship between art museums and their publics look like following recent global events like Brexit and the US elections? Weaving together the January 20 Artstrike and Liberate… More Naeem Mohaiemen (Text) & Hans Haacke (Images) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Campaign Flood a gallery, embalm an animal, smash an object—critics hail these gestures as having the power to ‘shape worlds.’ But when artists sit down with museum administrators and read a list of demands for labor rights, this work… More Gordon Hall Reading Things North Carolina’s discriminatory transgender bathroom bill, the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, police killings of African Americans across the United States, and the soaring murder rate among transgender women of color: artist Gordon Hall responds to… More Doug Benidt & Siri Engberg The Fuse Merged with the Firecracker It was the pen hitting the paper, the fuse merged with the firecracker.” Grant Hart recalls the August night 35 years ago when Hüsker Dü took to the tiny stage at Minneapolis’s 7th St. Entry to record Land Speed Record . Today, as… More Siri Engberg Live Then, Live Now On August 15, 1981, Hüsker Dü ran through a blistering set at downtown Minneapolis’s 7th St Entry, recording 17 songs in 26 minutes to create the punk trio’s debut album Land Speed Record . Thirty-five years later, artist Chris Larson channels that energy in an… More Museum of Capitalism Art for Justice documenta Standouts Plutocracy on Exhibit Out of the Woods In the Studio The Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Mission & History Building & Campus Annual Reports Press Private Events & Rentals Jobs Architecture/Design Education & Public Programs Moving Image New Media Initiatives Performing Arts Visual Arts Minneapolis Sculpture Garden mnartists.org Walker E-mail Newsletter Facebook Twitter Flickr YouTube RSS ©2020 Walker Art Center 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403 612.375.7600 Contact...