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

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

“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