Living Collections Catalogue
The Living Collections Catalogue is an on-going serial publication that presents unique documents, original interpretation, and rich media resources about select artworks from Walker Collections.
From left: Douglas Dunn, Nancy Lewis, and David Gordon, members of Grand Union performing at the Guthrie Theater as part of the Grand Union residency at the Walker Art Center, October 5, 1975. Walker Art Center Archives.
In 2009, the Getty Foundation invited the Walker Art Center and eight other museums to participate in an initiative to create new models for the future of scholarly collection catalogues. The Living Collections Catalogue (LCC) is an online serial publication that features new scholarship for newly digitized Walker Collections materials that have largely been unpublished and previously accessible only via onsite visits. Each volume offers media-rich essays on broader themes, as well as in-depth investigations of specific works of art. Implicit in the concept of a “living catalogue” is the dynamic and hybrid reading platform each volume offers, at the intersection of a collections database, printed catalogue, and digital reading environment.
Volume I: On Performativity
Volume II: Art Expanded, 1958–1978
Volume III: Collaborative Artistic Practices, 1960s–1980s
