Visual Arts

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.

Examining artists living with HIV from the 1980s through today, the Walker Art Center and Visual AIDS co-present a series that considers the enduring urgency found at the intersection of art, AIDS, and activism.

Gathering a variety of perspectives from throughout Minnesota and beyond to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores 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.

How can an artwork make its politics legible or illegible? This series explores how art and politics often intertwine, examining dimensions of political engagement as contemporary artists respond to pressing matters of their time.

An examination on how artists of Central Eastern Europe developed various response to living amidst turbulent ideologies, dissolving superpowers, and shifting nationalities that often employed collaboration and group efforts.

Explore the exuberant and wide-ranging work and life of artist Pacita Abad through this series of articles that dives into her materials, techniques, and experiences.

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

Through short interactive narratives, this ongoing series presents behind-the-scenes tours of your favorite outdoor sculptures.

A series of commissioned opinion pieces featuring provocative reactions to the headlines by Ron Athey, Gordon Hall, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Postcommodity, Ana Tijoux, Jack Whitten, and others.

Offering perspectives from those closest to the art, this recurring video series gives voice-of-the-artist perspectives on work on view.

In serial form, a 10-part curatorial essay from the 2014 exhibition <i>9 Artists</i>, which featured Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Hito Steyerl, Danh Vo, and others.

Avant Museology is a two-day symposium exploring the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology.

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.

A memoir series by the late Walker director Martin Friedman, recounting his encounters with artists including Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage.

In interviews with Laurie Anderson, Paul Chan, Trevor Paglen, JoAnn Verburg, and others, this series examines artists’ approaches to small-p politics—issues of power, inequality, and participation.