Artists Have to Keep Pushing Forward: Eve Fowler on Artist Curated Projects
How do artists support one another? Known for championing emerging queer artists, Los Angeles based artist Eve Fowler discuses her ongoing project Artist Curator Projects (ACP) that has presented exhibitions of local artists for over 15 years.
How do fragments reflect desires to hold onto history? Rose Salane discusses her series that explores the relationship between objects taken, and then returned, to archaeological park of Pompeii.
How can coral be multilingual? Artist Chang Yuchen discusses their inspirations and exploration of language in their work Coral Dictionary.
Current series
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.
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.
Intersection: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg, Glacial Decoy (1979)
What led to the first theatrical dance collaboration between Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg? We dive into the history of this unique creative partnership.
I Didn’t Go to Art School: Seth Bogart on Queer Punx, Music, and Art
As he gears up to embark on a North American tour with Hunx and His Punx, multidisciplinary artist and musician Seth Bogart sat down to chat about queercore, working with John Waters, and why he is glad he didn’t go to art school.
Artists Have to Keep Pushing Forward: Eve Fowler on Artist Curated Projects
How do artists support one another? Known for championing emerging queer artists, Los Angeles based artist Eve Fowler discuses her ongoing project Artist Curator Projects (ACP) that has presented exhibitions of local artists for over 15 years.
Inside Edward Hopper’s Office at Night: A look back at the Andersen Window Gallery Installation
An office for artworks? Explore the relationship between Edward Hopper‘s painting Office at Night and a unique approach to exhibition display at the Walker.
How do fragments reflect desires to hold onto history? Rose Salane discusses her series that explores the relationship between objects taken, and then returned, to archaeological park of Pompeii.
Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros's Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.
In the lead up to their first major museum survey, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Christine Sun Kim sat down with the exhibition curators to discuss how musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English– impact her wide-ranging approach to art-making.
In the lead up to opening of the exhibition, Ways of Knowing, Walker curator Rosario Güiraldes sat down with art critic Claire Bishop, artist and writer Nicolás Guagnini, and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina for a roundtable discussion around the themes of artists, research, and knowledge.
We’re People: Darryl DeAngelo Terrell and D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell and D’Angelo Lovell Williams discuss how Black queer culture, HIV, and the artists who came before them have shaped their work and lives.
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.
