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Art Blogs
If you haven’t noticed, the Walker has been blogging for a while now, with individual blogs for Film/Video, New Media, Performing Arts, and Education and Community. While their attempts are noble and...
View ArticleCherry, Photoshopped & Remixed
Fark photoshops are usually fun experiments in remix culture, but the recent photoshopping of the Walker cherry didn’t seem to produce any interesting combinations. Just imagining it hovering there was...
View ArticleThat British Humor
The British Advertising Awards Show begins its month-long run tonight at The Walker. Not to give away the ending, but an anti-hate epic for Honda voiced by Garrison Keillor (who we’ve already seen...
View ArticleNew Weisman Expansion?
Ya gotta love those Sunday articles from big city dailies that look at Minneapolis with envy. Today we have the lusciously long story from the Boston Globe about what Minneapolis could teach Boston...
View ArticleDo You Really Love The New Walker?
Nine months after its opening, is the Walker more about frustration than attention? That’s Linda Mack’s theory, which takes aim at the parking situation, the confusing entry process, and the hidden art.
View ArticleHerpetology Gone Awry
A small comments fracas has broken out on a post from the Walker’s Visual Arts blog about the potential inhumane treatment of snakes in the Huang Yong Ping exhibit.
View ArticleWalker Backlash Turns Around
Several people have opined here about the demise of The Walker’s After Hours events, but Tom Horgen (whose Nightwatch features I’ve been jiving too lately) makes the case for the Free Thursdays: “It’s...
View ArticleNew In The Perm Collection
ArtsJournal: Modern Art Notes has an interesting little post about the 2005 acquisitions made by The Walker. In addition to a bunch of new Jasper Johns prints, the most purchases of a single artist...
View ArticleIs the Walker a boy or a girl?
As the Walker Art Center gets its very first MySpace account, a commenter challenges the Center’s gender selection. Is the Walker male or female? In other news, Craigslist posts a good query: what are...
View ArticleIf Lileks Were a Computer…
“The Bleat” has previously commented on the acoustics of the Walker’s Skyline Lounge and has been covered by MnSpeak. His recent post about the Control Data Cyber 70 Bosom-Goggler (circa 1971) has been...
View ArticleBlog Stars in Service of Art
All-star bloggers Xeni Jardin (of Boingboing) and Bruce Sterling (of Wired, Viridian Design, and cyberpunk lit fame) are guest-blogging at Off-Center in anticipation of Sterling’s (free) discussion...
View ArticleAnyone seen the Whitney Biennial?
I just got an email from the Walker saying that the curators of the Whitney Biennial are going to be here next Monday (April 3) to “address some of the published criticism of their exhibition.” They...
View ArticleHow Much is Too Much Art?
According to a Strib story today, the new Walker’s attendance is barely above what it was before the expansion. It’s feared the Guthrie opening will suck up support from smaller theaters. The expanded...
View ArticleIs there a Mpls art underground?
As a Walker blogger highlights the scene at the Belfry Center for Social and Cultural Activities in South Minneapolis, I’m prompted to ask: Is there an arts underground in the Twin Cities? If so, where...
View ArticleScary cherry.
Lots of MNSpeakers seem to loathe that Miracle Gro marvel in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Spoonbridge & Cherry. But if you’ve been to the garden lately you’ll notice it’s not looking so hot....
View ArticleWalker Redesigns Website
In an attempt to integrate the locally-produced typography/iconography, the Walker has redesigned its website. The blog compares it to the old design.
View ArticleMade in Minneapolis
Factotum, the movie made last year in Minneapolis and screened last Februrary at the Walker as part of the Lili Taylor retrospective, just opened in New York and got a good review in the NY Times....
View ArticleGreat Scott
So, as of tomorrow, St. Paul’s favorite son, the man who documented the Jazz age, the man whose wife was seen as the prototypical flapper, will be 100. You could spend six hours listening to the...
View ArticleWalker Cancels Movies & Music in the Park
Whaaaaa?!!! No more music and movies in the park? Walker Art Center has canceled Movies & Music in the Park, the longtime Monday-night outdoor series that paired live bands with cult and classic...
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