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Walker Reader

The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, advances new ways of 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 illuminate the art and ideas of today’s world.

Current Series

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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.

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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.

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An exploration into how artists and designers interpret digital systems that influence how we read, write, and make meaning.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Gathering a variety of perspectives to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores art, placemaking, and home.

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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.

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Exploring the relationship between photography, spiritualism, science, art, and belief, this series traces image-making’s relationship with visible and invisible worlds.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

Reader Archive

Publishing

Prefer your publishing on the printed page? How about as an interactive, multimedia experience? Explore the full range of the Walker’s publishing endeavors.

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