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Mike Kelley, the LA-based artist known for his riffs on American popular culture, died in South Pasadena last week in an apparent suicide at the age of 57. We at the Walker Art Center are deeply saddened to lose such a unique and uncompromising artist—a true champion of independent thinking—and extend our deep sympathy to his friends, colleagues, and studio staff who feel his loss keenly. More

“3-D is the greatest revolution ever since the talkies, only most people [don’t] realize it because we [think it is] just a gimmick for national blockbusters,” says Wim Wenders, whose new film, Pina, reflects the technology’s newest wave. “Now some movies come out that show the true potential of 3-D, which is really a whole different way of seeing the world.” More

Postcards from America, the newly published book by a group of five Magnum photographers and writer Ginger Strand, recounts a two-week road trip through the American Southwest in May 2011. Here, published online for the first time, is “Treasure: A True Story,” a collaborative project from the book featuring Strand’s writing and photos by Minnesota’s Alec Soth. 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
Frank Gaard: Poison & Candy is on view January 26–May 6, 2012.

In Bill T. Jones’ Story/Time, the MacArthur “Genius” and Tony-winning choreographer takes inspiration from John Cage’s 1959 work Indeterminacy, sharing a series of poetic reflections, organized by chance and punctuated by dance and music. In the spirit of the performance, we offer a series of short reflections by Jones from a recent interview with performing arts curator Philip Bither. More
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performs Story/Time at the Walker February 16–19, 2012.

Christophe Szpajdel, who has created some 10,000 brand marks since the 1980s, may be among the more prolific logo designers anywhere. He may also be one of the most unusual: he creates identities for bands such as Pyre, Vomit of Torture, and Godrot. When he visited Minneapolis for the opening of Graphic Design: Now in Production, Szpajdel added one more name to the list: the Walker Art Center. More
Co-curated by the Walker’s Andrew Blauvelt, Graphic Design: Now in Production will be on view at Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum May 26-September 3, 2012.

“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

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

Through his photos—which address topics like the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Trail or World War II re-enactors in the Midwest—Justin Newhall explores “the nature in which we tell or sell our historic past.”

Yayoi Kusama loves fellow dot-maker Damien Hirst, but she appeared to ding his prices and use of assistants. “You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price but you’ve got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.”

“When we really act up, we have a big impact and we get what we’re demanding. When we’re silent we don’t,” says an ACT UP activist in the new documentary premiering at MoMA February 16 that chronicles the birth of the HIV/AIDS activist movement.
Top School of Visual Arts design profs look at presidential campaign logos and find little to love: Obama’s could be used more creatively, Gingrich’s looks like an identity for a bank, and Romney’s is “like a fake Louis Vuitton handbag.”
Tyler Green pairs a Robert Heinecken piece in the Met collection with Sasha Frere-Jones’ opinion that MIA’s flipped-bird gesture in the halftime show is far less profane than the images of violence and misogyny in Super Bowl ads.
A new survey finds that a majority of Americans—75 percent of us—cite walkable communities as a top factor in deciding where to live. Six in 10 would sacrifice house size for a neighborhood with parks and shops nearby.

JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, I HAVE AN AVERSION TO SUBURBS — a strong one. I try not to make a big thing about it, and I don’t want to offend anyone (learned that one the hard way!), but I do find myself going to great lengths to avoid them. Maybe it’s little silly, but the… More

TALKING TO MARIUSZ OLSZEWSKI IS LIKE opening the door to a very crammed closet. Ask one question and everything comes tumbling out: ballroom dance, cultural anthropology, anecdotes about Martha Graham, philosophy, quick references to this and that (Target, TV… More
WHERE TO BEGIN? With a body in space. The body breathes; it’s flexible, beautiful. But it has a thorn or splinter, an abscess or excess, that makes it rise and writhe in light. What should be in the air and buoyant clings to the ground, secret; what should be vertical… More
IF THE NEW YEAR’S FESTIVITIES ARE OVER, THE CHAMPAGNE IS FLAT and the chill has set in, then it must be time for Out There, the Walker Art Center’s twenty-three-year old January festival of the emerging, the risky, and bizarre in… More

Christophe Szpajdel discusses his Walker Art Center black metal logo (2011), part of the Walker Art Center’s exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production. More

Daniel Eatock discusses his work Felt-Tip Prints (2011), part of the Walker Art Center’s exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production. More

Jürg Lehni discusses his robotic chalk-drawing machine Viktor (2011), part of the Walker Art Center’s exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production. More

Playwright and director Young Jean Lee joins Walker performing arts assistant curator Michèle Steinwald for a discussion about the background of her Walker-commissioned performance Untitled… More

This ambitious survey of cutting-edge ideas and breaking cultural revolutions in graphic design charts the rise of entrepreneurial, designer-produced goods and the renaissance in digital font design, among other developments… More

Members of the Twin Cities dance community share stories about the impact Merce Cunningham and his company have had on dance and their lives. More

John Waters, in conversation with Walker curator Betsy Carpenter, 2011
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It’s taken 32 years, but Frank Gaard’s Walker solo show marks a homecoming of sorts for the Minneapolis-based artist: Poison & Candy is the painter’s first solo show here since 1980. More

With the recent passing of Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928–December 27, 2011), the Walker commemorates the 60 years her paintings and prints enriched our exhibitions. More

Curated by then-director Martin Friedman, the 1971 exhibition Works for New Spaces inaugurated the Walker’s new building designed by Edward Larabee Barnes. More