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Contributing Member Tour and Luncheon: Multiple Realities

Two adult woman with light skin, one wearing white with flowers in their hair and one wearing black, sit next to one another in a bar booth with two bottles of beer and glasses in front of them.
Věra Chytilová, Excerpt from Sedmikrásky (Daisies), 1966, 4K restoration from a 35mm film print (color/black and white, sound). Courtesy Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archiv, Prague; image courtesy National Film Archiv, Prague; © Czech Film Fund.

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Join Visual Arts curators Pavel Pyś for a private luncheon and daytime tour of Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s. This Walker-curated exhibition offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Available to Contributing members and special guests, tickets include both an exhibition tour and luncheon. Luncheon will be served at 12 noon with tour options available at 11 am and 1 pm. Complimentary for Walker Legacy Circle members and exhibition funders.

RSVP by December 5. Register online below or by calling 612-375-7641. Learn more about Contributing member events and benefits at walkerart.org/membership.

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We are happy to arrange accessible seating or other accommodations for this event. Please contact donors@walkerart.org to request accommodations or more information on accessibility.

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.

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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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