After making sure that all the artworks from Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers are safely crated and transported back to their respective (and far-flung) homes, registrar Gwen Bitz brings her own career to a close at the Walker at the end of the month. Recognized globally as a leading registrar, her receipt last year of the Dudley Wilkinson Award of Distinction was only the cap on an amazing…

In the late ’70s, Sol LeWitt was invited by choreographer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass to collaborate on what would become a landmark work,Dance(presented at the Walker April 7 – 9). In “Sol LeWitt’s Expanding Grid,” critic Ann-Sargent Wooster wrote about how the artist’s film-as-set design forDancewas “a radical and innovative departure from his previous work”; her essay — excerpted here – was…

Embracing the rustic and the humbly homemade as well as the clash of street spectacle and commercial culture, the new exhibitionThe Spectacular of Vernacularexplores the role of vernacular forms in works by more than two dozen artists. It focuses primarily on pieces made since the 1970s that incorporate—and at times revel in—craft, folklore, roadside kitsch, and other, often-overlooked relics of…

Yves Klein reveled in provocation throughout his short artistic career—his 1960 “leap into the void” and his use of nude women as “human paintbrushes” being only two of the more notorious examples. What has been explored less often is the devout Catholicism that compelled him to create a contemporary votive offering, which he quietly donated to an Italian monastery. In this interview, originally…

At a graduate student in art history, I was excited to be working at the Walker as a public relations and marketing intern when the Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers exhibition arrived here last October, after its presentation at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C. Its challenge to viewers to experience the art of pure color as envisioned by Klein is alluring, but while taking a course last fall…

With the annnouncement of a winner for his fourth group photo project on Flickr, Alec Soth winds up a series that has been running in conjunction with From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, the Walker survey closing January 2. He writes:  “Thanks to everyone who participated in the 4th and final Flickr assignment. I’ve learned so much from these assignments and love the way they relate to my…