Performing Arts

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.

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.

This collection of conversations and dialogues among practitioners, scholars, and thinkers explores the current landscape and lasting legacy of Black American Dance.

On the heels of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, climate crisis, and the threats to democracy, this series considers the various ways today’s performing artists create work that serves artistic and therapeutic goals.

Living Collections Catalogues offer media-rich essays on broader themes as well as in-depth investigations of specific works of art.

Exploring the use of humor as a form of resistance across today’s art and design practices.

To celebrate Zorn’s seventh decade, the Walker presents a series of well-wishes from over 70 collaborators, colleagues, and friends who weigh in on the many facets of this versatile artist’s life and work.

On September 28 and 29, 2015 the Walker Art Center hosted an invitational curatorial research convening focused on pressing areas of inquiry facing the field of curating contemporary performance.

Through a single interface, an array of voices are invited to respond to pressing questions that surround the work of making, presenting, understanding, and living with art today.

Straight from the mind of polymath musician/artist Jason Moran comes a new kind of music publication.

UNCOVERED focuses on the relationship between music and design.