Unlike Naked, presented in the Walker galleries in 2010, Eiko and Koma’s Fragile will be performed to a live soundtrack by Kronos Quartet at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend.

Last week the Minnesota State Arts Board announced recipients of $1.2 million in arts funding. The 140 grantees include choreographer Penelope Freeh, poet Bao Phi, artist Liz Miller, and painter (and former Walker Teen Arts Council member) Luke Tromiczak.

Becca Blackwell has performed nude before, but it “feels different” doing it in Untitled Feminist Show, which debuted at the Walker before heading to NYC. “I have no props or words to draw attention away from the loadedness of my junk while I’m trying to be myself.”

“The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist—that it’s a godlike thing,” says Laurie Anderson. “You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.”

Activist, artist, and performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph can add another title to his CV: director of performing arts at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Bamuthi brings his red, black and GREEN: a blues to the Walker in March.

It’s interesting “to think that still, in this country, one can slip through cracks, one can vanish. For me it was a kind of sign in a positive way,” says Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué, who presents Looking for a Missing Employee at the Walker next weekend.

“Approachable and avant-garde,” performing artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of the year’s best artists, writes hip hop artist Guante, who praises Bamuthi’s skill in using “art as an entry point to engage in real, sustainable community activism.”