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“Unmediatized” Architecture: VJAA Wins AIA’s Top Prize for Firms
Andrew Blauvelt
Dec 2011
What makes the work of Minneapolis-based VJAA’s architects so receptive for recognition? We can can safely rule out a few of the more obvious possibilities: they do not project the celebrity aura of the “starchitect,” nor do they dutifully reproduce a particularly recognizable style. In other words, despite all the awards, they do not intentionally cultivate a mediatized persona about their practice.
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Metahaven’s Facestate
Andrea Hyde
Dec 2011
“We are interested in the ways in which Facebook and government, Facebook and employers, Facebook and friends, Facebook and enemies constitute a power arrangement, and the way in which this constellation might influence politics, currency, and the social contract.” So says Metahaven of Facestate, their installation in the Walker’s design show.
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The Persistence of Posters
Andrew Blauvelt
Dec 2011
Technology did not render the poster obsolete as a means of communication. Instead, it expanded the tools, methods, and systems of production and distribution, freeing the poster from its typical burden of representation while sentencing it to a different kind of future.
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The Kids Are Alright: Teen Engagement and the Walker
Paul Schmelzer
Dec 2011
The impact of the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) on the lives of its participants can be profound. Former members now work in museums, galleries, or their own art studios, although some past members laud the program for its effects on their lives outside the realm of art.
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Anthony Burrill’s Advice for Living
Paul Schmelzer
Dec 2011
British designer Anthony Burrill is known for using older technology, namely Victorian wood type, to create posters bearing upbeat, quirky mantras like “Work Hard and Be Kind to People” and “Clear Your Head.” But he’s well aware how social media is changing design—and propelling his ideas around the globe.
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Idea Hub
Olga Viso
Dec 2011
As the Walker’s name signals, we’re a center, bringing together pursuits from commissioning performances and collecting art to convening discussions about culture. Acknowledging our mission to investigate the questions that shape us as individuals, cultures, and communities, I’m excited to introduce our new website, an online hub for ideas about art, both inside the Walker and beyond.
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The Muscle of Art: How Cunningham and Rauschenberg Inspire Us to Flex
Abigail Sebaly
Dec 2011
“Activity and open curiosity support the muscle of art,” Robert Rauschenberg once said. His work with choreographer Merce Cunningham actively embodied this idea, spanning more than 20 collaborations, five decades, and countless creative and pragmatic challenges.
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The Problem of Paint
Paul Schmelzer
Dec 2011
The Walker registrar faces myriad challenges — from “weeping Barbie syndrome,” which plagues art made from PVC, to cold storage for a famed choreographer’s fur coat — but none is more prevalent than the problem of paint: protecting and preserving outdoor sculptures ravaged by sun, time and water.
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Brand New Worlds: Corporate Makeovers and Dead Logos
Andrew Blauvelt
Dec 2011
Born in the offices of Mad Men–era ad execs, modern-day branding’s long strange trip into the American psyche has run some five decades from iconic corporate marks for the likes of IBM and UPS to MTV’s ever-changing logo, military heraldry, black metal graphics and beyond.