Public Tours at the Walker Art Center in October Highlight the Latest Exhibition, Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
Tours in October at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider, on view through February 28. From mundane objects and materials such as venetian blinds, infrared heaters, newspaper, and even a drying rack, Berlin/Seoul-based Haegue Yang creates all-encompassing installations as well as enigmatic photographs, videos, and sculptures. Poetry, politics, and human emotion inform her practice—and its relationship to the everyday. The exhibition surveys the artist’s work from the past decade.
October tours also examine Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (through November 29), featuring work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations. Examining the rich history of clay and showcasing some of the medium’s most important practitioners, Dirt on Delight embodies a wide range of form and scale by contemporary artists as well as historic and outsider figures who have had a sustained engagement with clay and its processes. The exhibition originated at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Sound Bites gallery talks, held on select Thursday evenings at 6:30 and 7 pm, illuminate an artist or work of art from the Walker’s world-class collection or one of its special exhibitions.
Gallery admission is $10 adults; $8 seniors (65+); $6 students/teens (with ID); and free to Walker members and children 12 and under. Admission free with a ticket to a same-day Walker event, $4 with a ticket stub up to six days after an event. Gallery admission is free to all every Thursday evening from 5–9 pm and on the first Saturday of each month.
October Public Tours
Gallery and Architecture Tours
Thursday–Sunday, 2 pm
Free with gallery admission
Check the calendar listing, visit the lobby desk, or call the box office for details and tour topics. To schedule a private group tour, visit learn.walkerart.org or call 612.375.7609.
Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider Gallery Tours
Friday, October 2, 2 pm
Thursday, October 8, 2 pm
Saturday, October 17, 2 pm
Sunday, October 25, 2 pm
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay Gallery Tours
Thursday, October 1, 2 pm
Saturday, October 10, 2 pm
Friday, October 16, 2 pm
Sunday, October 18, 2 pm
Friday, October 23, 2 pm
Walker Collection Tours
Saturday, October 4, 2 pm
Thursday, October 15, 2 pm
Saturday, October 24, 2 pm
Thursday, October 29, 2 pm
Friday, October 30, 2 pm
Architecture Tours
Friday, October 9, 2 pm
Sunday, October 11, 2 pm
Thursday, October 22, 2 pm
Saturday, October 31, 2 pm
Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month Tours
Free with gallery admission
Touch and Verbal Description tours of the Walker collection are open to visitors who are blind or have low vision, as well as to visitors with sight. They are open to the public but limited to eight participants for a more intimate experience.
Saturday, October 10, 11:30 am
Sunday, October 18, 11:30 am
Saturday, October 24, 11:30 am
Sound Bites
Select Thursdays at 6:30 and 7 pm
Free
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each offers an illuminating discussion, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this fresh, energized perspective with you to one of the Target Free Thursday Nights programs.
October 1: Haegue Yang’s installations
October 8: Tour Guide’s Choice: Collection Favorite
October 15: Tour Guide’s Choice: Collection Favorite
October 22: Haegue Yang’s Quasi MB