The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture.
Each year, the Walker Reader presents evolving series of original scholarly essays, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas reshaping us and our world.
Exploring the myriad of ways research is utilized and rejected by artists, this series opens questions about how artists engage with, question, and produce research.
Tracing recent re-examinations of what museums are and can be, this series considers bold re-envisionings for the shape of museums both within their walls as well as throughout communities.
An exploration into how artists and designers interpret digital systems that influence how we read, write, and make meaning.
Exploring today’s artists who make work about and within conflict, this series examines how the clash between opposing viewpoints is shaping art and our world.
Over the past decade, the term “content” has proliferated throughout the public lexicon. But what exactly is content? Media theorists, meme historians, artists, and others explore what content is and who controls the containers.
Exploring the often-fraught relationship between artists and categorization, this series of original articles considers the limits and potentials for rethinking the ways artists and their work are classified.
Gathering a variety of perspectives to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores art, placemaking, and home.
Gathering voices from throughout the US, this series makes visible the collaborative nature of queer nightlife and the continued impact this art form has on individual artists and communities alike.
Exploring the relationship between photography, spiritualism, science, art, and belief, this series traces image-making’s relationship with visible and invisible worlds.
A behind-the-scenes glimpse that celebrates the staff, volunteers, artists, and others whose work forms the life and character of the Walker Art Center.
Pairing designers with thinkers and activists, this series of articles guest edited by David Gissen forms new collaborations that rework what everyday design could be if freed from concepts of a “normal body.”
Exploring artists whose work considers audio and the built environment, this series delves into the ways artists have reexamined the acoustic contours of the sites we inhabit.
Reader Archive
Dive into the nearly 7,000 articles and previous series in our archive. With artists’ reflections, scholarship, explorations of art education, original videos, and more, there is something for everyone.
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How can the inner workings of technology be made more visible? Graphic designer and master paper engineer Kelli Anderson explores using pop-up books to reveal what is often hidden.
How can artificial intelligence's decision-making process be more visible to humans? Founder of the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University, Surya Mattu, discusses their art practice that explores how AI can be made more transparent, evaluated for bias, and the ways your devices are tracking you at home.
What Gifts Do We Already Have?: adrienne maree brown and Speculative Fiction
Writer, activist, and facilitator adrienne maree brown explore hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.
Spells are Called Spells for a Reason: Alex Tatarsky and Sad Boys in Harpy Land
In the lead-up to presenting their work at the Walker, Tatarsky sat down with artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam to discuss the power of language, Anna Karenina, and the role of the artist.
Reflecting on the musicians joining him in Minneapolis as part of Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek explores what these members of Chicago’s improvised music scene bring to his music.
Is a sculpture court the name of the exhibition or an architectural description of the space? At the Walker, it can be both. Archivist Jill Vuchetich explores this deceptively simple concept from the Renaissance through today.
Minneapolis-based painter Kim Benson discusses her work Wall Flower, the materiality of painting, and the medium’s unique ability to connect the past, present, and future.
Minnesota State Fair: 170 Years of Creative Activities
In the lead up to its revamping, Kathy Berdan traces the history of the Minnesota State Fair's Creative Activities Building–from its origins as the Womans' Activities Building to today's bounty of artistic expression we all know and love.
