While the 2012 Gwangju Biennale may have fallen short in its effort to “hold in balance a multiplicity of contradictory world views, artistic sensibilities, and curatorial approaches,” Walker executive director Olga Viso found an array of strong works in the sprawling Korean survey, from Kim Beom’s video Yellow Scream to Abraham Cruzvillegas’ found-object installations in an abandoned house.

At last week’s Creative Time Summit in New York–an annual conference on the intersections of art and social justice–an array of presenters took to the podium, including artist Steve Lambert, philosopher/cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, filmmaker (and just-named MacArthur “genius”) Laura Poitras, artist and organizer Jeff Chang (who discussed his book Total Chaos: The Art and […] At last week’s Creative…

At last week’s Creative Time Summit in New York–an annual conference on the intersections of art and social justice–an array of presenters took to the podium, including artist Steve Lambert, philosopher/cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, filmmaker (and just-named MacArthur “genius”) Laura Poitras, artist and organizer Jeff Chang (who discussed his book Total Chaos: The Art and […] At last week’s Creative…

In every work of art, there is a hidden set of influences that the audience may never see: conversations the artist had with peers, exhibitions he or she saw while creating the work, expectations for the medium that were established by predecessors. Throughout The Living Years: Art After 1989, you can see the different ways artists bring other artists, both contemporary and historical, into their…

“My work has been about negative space, in some respects: The overlooked, the void, emptiness,” says Mungo Thomson. “I had this idea to take that literally and make negative images of outer space.” The resulting 93-foot-long mural, Negative Space, now installed outside the Walker, reflects Thomson’s interest in what he calls “the dumb idea”—something simple blown up to grand proportions.

“You can excavate my paintings into the parts used to build them,” says LA artist Alex Olson, who opts for transparency over virtuosity in her work.

  It’s unlikely that Vincent Fecteau’s Untitled (2010) sculpture is seen the same way twice. It hangs on a peg in the gallery’s wall so that the two-sided work can be shown as occasionally reversed and rotated. With each adjustment to its display, the viewer’s discovery of the object is slightly different, exposed to new […] It’s unlikely that Vincent Fecteau’s Untitled (2010) sculpture is seen the…

On July 8, we lost a dear friend when Walker Librarian Rosemary Furtak passed away. Dedicating 29 years to the Walker Art Center, Rosemary was a leader in her field, building our library into one of the primary repositories for contemporary art research in the country. She knew that as an institution powered by the […] On July 8, we lost a dear friend when Walker Librarian Rosemary Furtak passed…

In September 2011 a group of Walker staffers convened under the umbrella of the Interdisciplinary Work Group (IWG). Largely drawn from the institution’s various programming departments, the group was charged with examining on both a pragmatic and more theoretical level how the Walker approaches and thinks about the interdisciplinary in its work. The IWG emerged […] In September 2011 a group of…