For this year’s Artist-Designed Mini Golf course we invited the University of Minnesota Art Department to design and build two of the holes. The course, led by professor Chris Larson, was tasked with developing several designs to present  to a panel of Walker curators.  The class was asked to document their process leading up to the opening […] For this year’s Artist-Designed Mini Golf course we invited…

Spotted in the Performing Arts office today: Assistant Curator Michèle Steinwald wearing her passion for dance on her chest. The LIFE/DEATH/DANCE Venn diagram was screenprinted on a sweater from home she says, during the Movement Research Festival. Spotted in the Performing Arts office today: Assistant Curator Michèle Steinwald wearing her passion for dance on her chest. The LIFE/DEATH/DANCE Venn…

In anticipation of summertime mini-golfing, Nicola, Suzanne, and Bryan Carpenter have been preparing their fearless troop of gnomes for the battle ahead. These gnomes are central to the Carpenter family’s artistic vision: their mini-golf hole is also a foosball course in which garden gnome strikers will block the participant’s way to the hole. There are 13 […] In anticipation of summertime mini-golfing…

Painter, Painter, now on view at the Walker Art Center through October 27, 2013, includes a selection of living artists responding to the materiality and open-endedness of the medium of painting, as well as the fluidity of the role of artist as painter. Operating as painters creating new work in a time of unlimited ontologies, we […] Painter, Painter, now on view at the Walker Art Center through October 27…

I really like this Joann Verburg piece. The overall tone is very pastel. I like the subtle and dreary greys and greens and then the little pops of pink. The fact that the newspaper is in the middle of the picture and is less colorful than anything else draws our attention to it and we notice the “twin towers” on the front. The solemn tone in the picture can also be brought about by acid washed denim…