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Jim Hodges’ Buoyant Monoliths: The Walker’s Newest Outdoor Commission
Olga Viso
Feb 2012
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.
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Beyond Real: Wim Wenders and 3-D Film’s New Day
Matt Levine and Jeremy Meckler
Feb 2012
“3-D is the greatest revolution ever since the talkies, only most people [don’t] realize it because we [think it is] just a gimmick for national blockbusters,” says Wim Wenders, whose new film, Pina, reflects the technology’s newest wave. “Now some movies come out that show the true potential of 3-D, which is really a whole different way of seeing the world.”
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Postcards from America: We Don’t Ask About the Oryx
Ginger Strand and Alec Soth
Feb 2012
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.
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Ice Land
Paul Schmelzer
Jan 2012
Uncharted territories, even in a relatively sparsely populated state like Minnesota, are few and far between. But each January, when the average temperature lingers around 7 degrees Fahrenheit, one such place comes into being, briefly, on the frozen surface of Medicine Lake, where artists reimagine ice-fishing shacks as the locus for a vibrant pop-up community.
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Design’s “Dark Lord” Discusses the Walker Art Center Black Metal Logo
Paul Schmelzer
Jan 2012
Christophe Szpajdel, who has created some 10,000 brand marks since the 1980s, may be among the more prolific logo designers anywhere. He may also be one of the most unusual: he creates identities for bands such as Pyre, Vomit of Torture, and Godrot. When he visited Minneapolis for the opening of Graphic Design: Now in Production, Szpajdel added one more name to the list: the Walker Art Center.
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Frank Gaard on Dionysus and Dualism
Paul Schmelzer
Jan 2012
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.
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Chance Ruminations
Julie Caniglia
Jan 2012
In Bill T. Jones’ Story/Time, the MacArthur “Genius” and Tony-winning choreographer takes inspiration from John Cage’s 1959 work Indeterminacy, sharing a series of poetic reflections, organized by chance and punctuated by dance and music. In the spirit of the performance, we offer a series of short reflections by Jones from a recent interview with performing arts curator Philip Bither.
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Internal Revolution
Philip Bither
Jan 2012
Given the tumult in the Middle East, it’s no surprise that Lebanese theater-maker and visual artist Rabih Mroué is interested in revolution. But he doesn’t see his work as activism. Eschewing the term “political theater,” he says, “If there’s a revolution, it’s revolution against myself, to provoke myself.”