Bad at Sports’ Eric Asboe’s visits to the Twin Cities included looks at two exhibitions that represent “spare, quiet returns to formalism,” the Walker’s Painter Painter and the Soap Factory’s group show R.U.R.

Pope Francis’ stance on contemporary art? Not good, if his actions in 2004 are any indicator. As a cardinal in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio dubbed an exhibition of works by León Ferrari “blasphemous” and successfully lobbied for its censorship.

Confused by all the twists and turns in the recent history of LA MOCA? Carolina Miranda translates the story in gif format, using pop-culture references from Jon Stewart and King Kong to Monty Python and Star Wars.

In anticipation of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s 25th anniversary this summer, a new winter-themed work has just been installed, Gary Hume’s Front of Snowwoman (2002). On loan until this fall from the collection of Peggy and Ralph Burnet, the cast-bronze snow-being temporarily replaces Jacques Lipchitz’s Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II (1944/1953), which has been on […] In anticipation of the…

An oil trader paid $100M by Citigroup the year the government bailed the company out now owns a private art museum in Vermont. In its collection: photos by Edward Burtynsky, who documents environmental damage from extraction industries.

Continuing #OpenCurating, its series of interviews and events exploring the ways Web 2.0 and social media technologies are informing new practices in art, the curatorial office Latitudes hosted an event in Barcelona recently with Dia Art Foundation curator (and former Walker curator) Yasmil Raymond. As #OpenCurating’s content partner, the Walker has participated in these conversations, both through an…

“Metal, often derided and dismissed, is a rich resource for anyone who wants to transgress repressive norms,” writes Keith Kahn-Harris on news Ai Weiwei is releasing a metal-influenced album with musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou (featuring cover art by Ai).

“I’ve never trusted art,” says Llyn Foulkes, whose “unfiltered and so unpretentious” art caught the attention of Hammer Museum curator Ali Subotnick. The Los Angeles museum is hosting a career retrospective of the artist and musician through May.