Uncharted territories, even in a relatively sparsely populated state like Minnesota, are few and far between. But each January, when the average temperature lingers around 7 degrees Fahrenheit, one such place comes into being, briefly, on the frozen surface of Medicine Lake, where artists reimagine ice-fishing shacks as the locus for a vibrant pop-up community. More

For more than four decades, Frank Gaard has forged deeply personal work that draws influences from Dick Tracy comics, philosopher-poets such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, and artists like Piet Mondrian. For his first Walker show since 1980, Gaard has selected a sampling of works from the exhibition and composed a few thoughts on each in his distinctive handwriting.  More

One day last May, five Magnum photographers and a writer piled into an RV dubbed “Uncle Jackson” in Austin, Texas, and embarked on a nearly 2,000-mile road trip to California. Their goal: to document both the Southwest and improvise ways to work collaboratively. Here’s a first look at the result, an editioned series of artworks collectively called Postcards from America. More

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” So reads the inscription on a black stone with gold-leaf engraving that will be installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next spring. A work by Danh Vo, it will reside here until the death of the artist’s father, when it will travel to Copenhagen to mark Phùng Vo’s final resting place.  More

Like some alien organism deep in the core of the machine it controls, Elizabeth Simonson’s biomorphic, bead-based sculptural installation is recessed into the aluminum-clad ceiling just inside the Walker’s Hennepin Avenue entrance. Commissioned for the space, which was dubbed the “oculus” by architects Herzog & de Meuron, the complex and intricate work is intended to suggest biological forms.  More