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Circle Opening Dinner and Reception: Multiple Realities

Two adults at a party look at the viewer as they raise glasses of wine towards them.
Opening Event for Pacita Abad, 2023. Photo by Carina Lofgren. Courtesy Walker Art Center.

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Join Patron’s, Advocate’s, and Director’s Circle members and special guests for the opening celebration of Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s. Enjoy an in-depth look at a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s.

$120 per person includes reception drinks and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a three-course dinner ($50 per person for reception only).

RSVP by November 2.

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For information about accessibility, or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564, or email access@walkerart.org.

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Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is organized by the Walker Art Center. Major support is provided by Martha and Bruce Atwater. Additional support is provided by Carlo Bronzini Vender, James Cahn and Jeremiah Collatz, Charlotte Feng Ford, Martha Gabbert, Karen and Ken Heithoff, John L. Thomson, the Weiser Family Foundation, and Anonymous. Exhibition research was supported by a curatorial fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Media partner Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

The exhibition catalogue is generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Walker Art Center publications.

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