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How Warhol Did Not Murder Painting but Masterminded the Killing of Content
Francesco Bonami
Aug 2012
“Warhol’s bulimic capacity to swallow the moment and spit it out as another image helped [his Race Riot works] transform themselves into pagan icons, devoid of moral weight.”
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A Ribbon of Dreams: Dreams and Cinema
Matt Levine
Aug 2012
The experience of watching films, wrote critic Jules Romains in 1912, is a “group dream.” Inspired by the theme of the 2012 edition of Summer Music and Movies, In Dreams, Walker Film/Video intern Matt Levine examines the dreamlike nature of film and the notion of dreams in cinematic history, from the Lumière Brothers and Méliès through film noir to Stalker, The Matrix and Inception.
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Time Immemorial: A Tribute to Chris Marker (1921-2012)
Sheryl Mousley
Aug 2012
Chris Marker has always had perfect timing: Born on July 29, 1921, he passed away on July 29, 2012, exactly 91 years later. Dubbed “the prototype of the twenty-first-century man” by Alain Resnais, he seemed to be everywhere at the right time, hitting every political hot spot of the later 20th century and creating innovative films wherever he went.
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Identity and Institutionalization: Dorit Cypis on Minneapolis in the ’80s
Dorit Cypis & Yesomi Umolu
Jul 2012
For Israel-born, California-based artist Dorit Cypis, the Twin Cities was home for much of the 1980s and 1990s, decades when she says the arts became institutionalized, identity politics became entrenched, and her own art more deeply embraced both politics and performance. For our ongoing series Then and Now: The Twin Cities in the 1980s, she shares her memories of a turbulent decade.
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Oddities and Wonder: Remembering Franz West
Darsie Alexander
Jul 2012
“How people walk, interact, make love, snore in public, and do other intimately human and occasionally embarrassing things was a theme in much of his art,” writes Walker chief curator Darsie Alexander of Franz West, who passed away July 25, 2012, at age 65. She remembers the Austrian artist as a man engrossed in the “oddities and wonder of the physical realm.”
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Marcel Duchamp at 125
Joan Rothfuss
Jul 2012
In celebration of the 125th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s birth—he was born in Normandy on July 28, 1887—we look back at curator Joan Rothfuss’ essay on the Dadaist provocateur from our collections catalogue, Bits & Pieces.
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The Place We Call Attention: ROLU on the Open Field
Matt Olson & Paul Schmelzer
Jul 2012
From the earthy to the ethereal, the work of Minneapolis experimental design studio ROLU spans from landscape design to conceptual art, fashion to esoteric online explorations. Given this range, the Walker’s grassy hillside seems a fitting site for ROLU’s residency: where better to host activities by this genre-hopping trio—a group engaged in an open field of endeavors—than Open Field?
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WARM in the ’80s
Yesomi Umolu
Jul 2012
As executive director of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM), the renowned feminist art collective, and a health educator during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, Catherine Jordan had clear views of two of the 1980s most pivotal concerns. Continuing our series of reflections on the Twin Cities during a turbulent decade, Jordan shares her recollections with the Walker’s Yesomi Umolu.