What is it with Minneapolis and hand-drawn typography? Something in the water? The new book Hand Job: A Catalog of Typeby Mike Perry (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), is a fascinating 250-page tome in its own right, with clever, cute and sometimes bizarre examples of custom-penned letterforms by the likes of Kate “Obsessive Consumption” Bingaman and design great Stefan Sagmeister. But it also…

Just a quick note about the MPR story that woke me up this morning (love my clock-radio). The new owner of Linden Hills’ first weeHouse, which dropped into the neighborhood today, first learned about his prefab house from the Walker’s own exhibition Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses.

Verburg the Voyager: “Like a voyager returning from distant lands, the photographer JoAnn Verburg brings us evidence of private life’s continued existence,” writes Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice of the St. Paul artist’s mid-career survey on view at MoMA (and opening at the Walker in January 2008). For more, check out mnartists.org recent interview with Susan Kismaric, who curated the MoMA show, Present…

Readers of this blog are no doubt aware that the Republican National Convention is taking place in St. Paul next September. Given this unique opportunity, The Walker and many other arts and education institutions in the Twin Cities are teaming up to create an entity called The UnConvention. Over the next year and a half, The Walker, along with these institutions, will be presenting lectures, workshops…

As a Philadelphia native, I have been following the fight over the Barnes Foundation for a few years now, mostly with the help of the newspaper clippings my mom mails me. Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes posted a flurry of posts last week about the legal battle that appears to be heating up again with another move by the Friends of the Barnes Foundation to keep the institution in Merion, PA. I’ve…