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Walker Art Center Acquires Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection

Walker Art Center Acquires Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection

Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate at the Walker Art Center

Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate at the Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center Presents Julian Schnabel: Artist Director Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective March 4-19

Walker Art Center Presents Julian Schnabel: Artist Director Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective March 4-19

Going to the Movies, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in March, is a Stop-Motion Sensation for the Entire Family Curated by Childish Films

Going to the Movies, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in March, is a Stop-Motion Sensation for the Entire Family Curated by Childish Films

Target Free Thursday Nights in March Feature Music Looping Workshop with Dosh, an Artist Talk by Michelle Grabner, and Screening of the Videotect Awards

Target Free Thursday Nights in March Feature Music Looping Workshop with Dosh, an Artist Talk by Michelle Grabner, and Screening of the Videotect Awards

Walker Art Center Presents World Premiere of Tyondai Braxton/Wordless Music Orchestra's Central Market
Tyondai Braxton, Opening Bell

Walker Art Center Presents World Premiere of Tyondai Braxton/Wordless Music Orchestra's Central Market

World's Top Designers Come to Twin Cities for Insights 2011 Design Lecture Series

World's Top Designers Come to Twin Cities for Insights 2011 Design Lecture Series

Walker Art Center Presents Choreographer Sarah Michelson's Devotion, a New Dance Piece for New York City Players, Inspired by the Text of Playwright/Director Richard Maxwell

Walker Art Center Presents Choreographer Sarah Michelson's Devotion, a New Dance Piece for New York City Players, Inspired by the Text of Playwright/Director Richard Maxwell

Taking Apart the Rules, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in February, Features Art-Making, Film, and Gallery Activity for the Entire Family Inspired by Sol Lewitt

Taking Apart the Rules, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in February, Features Art-Making, Film, and Gallery Activity for the Entire Family Inspired by Sol Lewitt

Walker Art Center Presents Kronos Quartet X 2: Two Distinctly Different Programs Showcasing Fearless Musical Exploration

Walker Art Center Presents Kronos Quartet X 2: Two Distinctly Different Programs Showcasing Fearless Musical Exploration

Target Free Thursday Nights in February Feature David Harrington of Kronos Quartet, WAC ATTACK: TASK Party, Film Screenings, and the Logic of LeWitt Gallery Talk

Target Free Thursday Nights in February Feature David Harrington of Kronos Quartet, WAC ATTACK: TASK Party, Film Screenings, and the Logic of LeWitt Gallery Talk

Shake Off Your Cabin Fever at Walker After Hours: On Ice

Shake Off Your Cabin Fever at Walker After Hours: On Ice

Clara Kim to Join Walker Art Center as Senior Curator of Visual Arts

Clara Kim to Join Walker Art Center as Senior Curator of Visual Arts

Walker Exhibition The Spectacular of Vernacular Features Artists Who Utilize Craft, Incorporate Folklore, and Revel in Roadside Kitsch
Lari Pittman, Untitled #30 (A Decorated Chronology of Insistence and Resignation), 1994

Walker Exhibition The Spectacular of Vernacular Features Artists Who Utilize Craft, Incorporate Folklore, and Revel in Roadside Kitsch

Walker Art Center's January/February Film/Video Programming Includes Expanding the Frame: Cinema on Stage, Visiting Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt, and Two Premieres by Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Walker Art Center's January/February Film/Video Programming Includes Expanding the Frame: Cinema on Stage, Visiting Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt, and Two Premieres by Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Walker Art Center Presents Out There 2011: New European Performance

Walker Art Center Presents Out There 2011: New European Performance

More than Two Dozen Artists Revise, Critique, and Upend Vernacular Forms in The Spectacular Of Vernacular Opening January 29 at Walker Art Center
Marc Swanson, Untitled (Looking Back Buck), 2004

More than Two Dozen Artists Revise, Critique, and Upend Vernacular Forms in The Spectacular Of Vernacular Opening January 29 at Walker Art Center

50/50 Exhibition Features Works Selected by Both the Public and the Walker

50/50 Exhibition Features Works Selected by Both the Public and the Walker

New Film Installation by Tacita Dean Explores the Legacy of Choreographer Merce Cunningham and Composer John Cage
Production still from Tacita Dean’s Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS… (six performances, six films), 2008

New Film Installation by Tacita Dean Explores the Legacy of Choreographer Merce Cunningham and Composer John Cage

Wall-to-Wall Walker: Day-into-Night Celebration of All Things Walker on Saturday, December 4

Wall-to-Wall Walker: Day-into-Night Celebration of All Things Walker on Saturday, December 4

Target Free Thursday Nights in December Feature École de Klein

Target Free Thursday Nights in December Feature École de Klein

Next Generation of Parks Series Features Walter Hood on Urban Landscapes

Next Generation of Parks Series Features Walter Hood on Urban Landscapes

Walker Art Center Presents a Global Program of Local Dance at Choreographers' Evening 2010 Curated by Susana di Palma

Walker Art Center Presents a Global Program of Local Dance at Choreographers' Evening 2010 Curated by Susana di Palma

The Votes Are In--50/50 Exhibition Features Works on Paper Selected by Both the Public and the Walker

The Votes Are In--50/50 Exhibition Features Works on Paper Selected by Both the Public and the Walker

Walker Art Center's Sol LeWitt: 2D+3D Features Groundbreaking Sculptural and Two-Dimensional Works
Sol LeWitt, Loopy Doopy, Blue/Red, 2000

Walker Art Center's Sol LeWitt: 2D+3D Features Groundbreaking Sculptural and Two-Dimensional Works

Alec Soth to Sign Copies of his Exhibition Catalogue From Here to There: Alec Soth's America November 11 in the Walker Shop
Alec Soth, Misty, 2005

Alec Soth to Sign Copies of his Exhibition Catalogue From Here to There: Alec Soth's America November 11 in the Walker Shop

Walker Art Center's Local-to-Global Jewelry Artist Mart Features Unique Gifts in Time for the Holidays

Walker Art Center's Local-to-Global Jewelry Artist Mart Features Unique Gifts in Time for the Holidays

Imagination and Innovation, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in November, Features Performance and Family Sing-Along with Elizabeth Mitchell

Imagination and Innovation, Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in November, Features Performance and Family Sing-Along with Elizabeth Mitchell

Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota Present Ousmane Sembene: African Stories November 5-20

Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota Present Ousmane Sembene: African Stories November 5-20

Walker Art Center and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Present World Premiere of Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider

Walker Art Center and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Present World Premiere of Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider

Japanese American Movement Artists Eiko & Koma to Perform Living Dance/Visual Art Installation in Walker Art Center's Collection Exhibition Event Horizon

Japanese American Movement Artists Eiko & Koma to Perform Living Dance/Visual Art Installation in Walker Art Center's Collection Exhibition Event Horizon

Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota Present a Premieres Screening of The Robber Introduced by Director Benjamin Heisenberg

Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota Present a Premieres Screening of The Robber Introduced by Director Benjamin Heisenberg

Acclaimed Exhibition Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers Makes Final Stop at Walker Art Center

Acclaimed Exhibition Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers Makes Final Stop at Walker Art Center

Yves Klein After Hours Preview Party October 22
Yves Klein, Yves Klein and a model during an Anthropometry performance at the Galerie internationale d'art contemporain, March 9, 1960, 1960

Yves Klein After Hours Preview Party October 22

Walker Art Center Presents Adventures in New Puppetry, Chapter 1: Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM's Dark Matters

Walker Art Center Presents Adventures in New Puppetry, Chapter 1: Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM's Dark Matters

Target Free Thursday Nights in October Feature Student Open House, Talking Dance with Eiko & Koma, and the Films of Olivier Assayas

Target Free Thursday Nights in October Feature Student Open House, Talking Dance with Eiko & Koma, and the Films of Olivier Assayas

Walker Art Center Presents Olivier Assayas: Between Love and Terror Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective October 1-31

Walker Art Center Presents Olivier Assayas: Between Love and Terror Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective October 1-31

Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in October Features Performance of Eiko & Koma's Raven

Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday Program in October Features Performance of Eiko & Koma's Raven

Walker Art Center Presents Twin Cities Film Premier of Howl Introduced by Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

Walker Art Center Presents Twin Cities Film Premier of Howl Introduced by Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

Walker Art Center Presents Dave Douglas & Keystone/Bill Morrison's Spark of Being

Walker Art Center Presents Dave Douglas & Keystone/Bill Morrison's Spark of Being

Walker Art Center Presents Choreographer Ralph Lemon's Walker-Commissioned New Work, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
Man in space suit on a dirt road in woods.

Walker Art Center Presents Choreographer Ralph Lemon's Walker-Commissioned New Work, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

Target Free Thursday Nights in September Feature Cultural Critic Lewis Hyde, Preview of 2010–2011 Performing Arts Season, and Talk on New Exhibition

Target Free Thursday Nights in September Feature Cultural Critic Lewis Hyde, Preview of 2010–2011 Performing Arts Season, and Talk on New Exhibition

Newly Acquired and Rarely Seen Works from the Walker Collection Featured in A Shot in the Dark
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Le rayon vert (The Green Light), 1993

Newly Acquired and Rarely Seen Works from the Walker Collection Featured in A Shot in the Dark

mnartists.org and Springboard for the Arts Celebrate Minnesota-based Artists with Second Annual Field Day

mnartists.org and Springboard for the Arts Celebrate Minnesota-based Artists with Second Annual Field Day

The Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum's Yves Klein Exhibition Showcases One of the Most Influential Artists of the Twentieth Century
Yves Klein, Untitled Fire-Color Painting, 1961

The Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum's Yves Klein Exhibition Showcases One of the Most Influential Artists of the Twentieth Century

Walker Art Center Launches Innovative Digital Scavenger Hunt

Walker Art Center Launches Innovative Digital Scavenger Hunt

Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 examines three decades of work by this Buenos Aires-based artist
Guillermo Kuitca, Trauerspiel, 2001

Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 examines three decades of work by this Buenos Aires-based artist

Walker Art Center Announces 2010-2011 Performing Arts Season
Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio: L'Effet de Serge

Walker Art Center Announces 2010-2011 Performing Arts Season

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