What began as a sketch on Jim Hodges’ studio wall—an image of a boulder with a small swatch of pink foil added—will become the newest addition to the Walker campus this spring. The circle of massive stones, collectively weighing 90,000 pounds and skinned with striking sheaths of reflective steel, will be the first major public work to join the Walker’s green space since the 2005 expansion.

Postcards from America, the newly published book by a group of five Magnum photographers and writer Ginger Strand, recounts a two-week road trip through the American Southwest in May 2011. Here, published online for the first time, is “Treasure: A True Story,” a collaborative project from the book featuring Strand’s writing and photos by Minnesota’s Alec Soth.

It’s taken 32 years, but Frank Gaard’s Walker solo show marks a homecoming of sorts for the Minneapolis-based artist: Poison & Candy is the painter’s first solo show here since 1980.

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” So reads the inscription on a black stone with gold-leaf engraving that will be installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next spring. A work by Danh Vo, it will reside here until the death of the artist’s father, when it will travel to Copenhagen to mark Phùng Vo’s final resting place.