At this, the annual juncture of new and old, our small-but-mighty crew at mnartists.org is taking stock of the year just passed and peering ahead with our wishes for 2013.  All this week, look for idiosyncratic, entirely subjective and by-no-means-exhaustive lists from each of us, with our favorite moments from 2012 – things we saw […] At this, the annual juncture of new and old, our small-but-mighty crew at…

Twenty-Twelve was a big year for our blogs: we redesigned them, renamed them, and added a few new ones–including Centerpoints and Walker Seen. We also grew traffic. Here’s a look at some of the posts that best took hold across the interwebs.  1. Cats! Cats! Cats! This just in: folks on the Internet like them. […] Twenty-Twelve was a big year for our blogs: we redesigned them, renamed them, and added a few new…

Since relaunching last December as a hub for sharing original ideas about art and contemporary culture, the Walker homepage has published more than 100 original pieces, from articles and interviews to slideshows and visual essays. Here’s the work that our readers responded to most over the last 12 months.  1. Buoyant Boulders: The addition of […] Since relaunchinglast December as a hub for sharing…

Minnesota Funk at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery functions like a show within a show.  The perimeter of the gallery is filled with a mix of work by Minnesota artists that range widely in form and material—painting on canvas, ceramics, lithographs, cartoony maps, mixed media on paper, video, steel and found material/altered sculpture. These pieces […] Minnesota Funkat the Katherine E. Nash Galleryfunctions…

Todd Balthazor is a satirical, often anthropomorphic illustrator, fine artist, muralist and children’s art instructor from St.Paul, MN, with a BFA in illustration from the College of Visual Arts (CVA).  He has done artist residencies at Jackson Elementary and the St. Paul University Club, and his work has been displayed in venues both locally and abroad, […] Todd Balthazor is a satirical, often…

Minneapolis-based artist Steven Lang’s idiosyncratic and hard-to-pin-down artistic practice ranges from collage and photography to social media and performance. The artist is comfortable with his own quirks – like an inside joke he shares with himself – and slyly indulges his deadpan humor, multiple personae and obsessive perfectionism in each project. In this conversation with […] Minneapolis-based…

Is fashion art? Or perhaps art is fashion. What do the two really have in common? I have toured the wonderful galleries of the Walker Art Center in search of fashion inspiration. With the pieces I have found I will attempt to personally answer the question connecting these two worlds of fashion and art. The image of these two young men dancing reminds me of a school dance or prom, especially since…

Jeanine Durning’s inging is the cri de coeur of a dancer, choreographer and actor struggling, with every cell of her being, to smash any distinctions between those three identities while, more importantly, refuting any notions that body and mind, spirit and sensation, voice and physicality, emotion and intellect are separate. During most of the hour-long […] Jeanine Durning’s inging is the cri de…