Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in August Include The Artist's Bookshelf Book Club and Gallery Tours

The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in August are highlighted by another edition of the Walker book club discussion group The Artist’s Bookshelf, featuring The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (August 9, 7 pm). Set in mid-1980s India on the eve of the movement for Nepalese independence, this novel examines the epic issues of globalization, fundamentalism, and exile through the personal stories of several characters. Other highlights in August include gallery tours of ongoing exhibitions, including Picasso and American Art (through September 9), a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art that juxtaposes Picasso’s art with that of luminaries such as Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Weber, Louise Bourgeois, and Jasper Johns; and Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions (through September 23), which addresses the means by which artists today are exploring notions of time, place, and narrative through the intimacy of paper.

Target Free Thursday Nights sponsored by Target.

Target Free Thursday Nights

August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Galleries open 5–9 pm; special events follow.
Free

Thursday, August 2

Picasso and American Art Gallery Tour, 6 pm

Thursday, August 9
Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions Gallery Tour, 6 pm

Book Club Discussion

The Artist’s Bookshelf: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, 7 pm

Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab
Free, but reservations required; call 612.375.7600
Set in mid-1980s India on the eve of the movement for Nepalese independence, this novel examines the epic issues of globalization, fundamentalism, and exile through the personal stories of several characters. Refreshments included. Come early for a gallery tour at 6 pm. For discussion questions, visit blogs.walkerart.org/ecp and look for posts marked Artist’s Bookshelf. Books are available at the Walker Shop and the Minneapolis Public Library (mplib.org). Presented in partnership with the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library.

The Artist’s Bookshelf is a book discussion group focusing on shared themes between contemporary literature and contemporary art. This summer’s series examines contemporary mythologies through novels and art.

Note: Author is not present.

Thursday, August 16

Gallery Tour, 6 pm

Thursday, August 23
Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need Gallery Tour, 6 pm

Thursday, August 30
Picasso and American Art Gallery Tour, 6 pm