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“My Africa is Always in the Becoming:” Outside the Box with Faustin Linyekula
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Sep 2007
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“If there’s any politics about my work, it’s to put individuals at the center of the discussion rather than treating them like sheep.”
Talking one-on-one with Faustin Linyekula makes you realize how much we are led by appearances, and how misleading appearances can be. As is probably the case with so many people he meets (black, white, brown—on whatever continent he may be), this powerful man…
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Super Night Shot
Robin Arthur
Aug 2007
OK, it goes something like this: there are four of them and one is Hero (although later on he decides to be the Villain), one is the Location Scout, one is the Publicity Agent, and one is the Casting Director, and it all starts at the end, when you’re in the bar before the show has really started and you get given these sparklers and streamers and you’re asked to welcome the performers back into the…
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Partnering for Picasso
Rachel Hooper
Jul 2007
In 1942, artist John Graham organized an exhibition in New York that was in many ways the precursor to Picasso and American Art. Just as the Walker’s show pairs works by important American artists with the Picasso pieces that inspired them, Graham’s juxtaposed paintings by New York artists of the day with those by their Parisian contemporaries. A few works by Picasso were shipped across the…
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Allianz Life’s Woman with a Vision
Sheryl Mousley
Feb 2007
A driving force behind cultural awareness and diversity programs inside one of the world’s largest corporations, Cecilia Stanton, assistant vice president of diversity at Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, sat down with Walker film/video curator Sheryl Mousley to discuss Allianz Life’s support of the Women with Vision festival.
Sheryl Mousley:
Given the size of your organization, you…
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Silhouettes and Stereotypes
Kathy Halbreich
Feb 2007
Kara Walker’s purposefully provocative and seductively graphic work is difficult. It confounds, and sometimes offends. In addressing the concerns of some viewers, I’ve tried to convey that part of our mission as a cultural institution is to represent many different value systems, to give space, alongside more familiar or palatable expressions, to the unfamiliar, the invisible, the unspeakable, and the…
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Recent Acquisition: Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe, 2004/2005
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Dec 2006
Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965) is known for employing potent visual symbols to reveal sly musings on the history of racial identity in America. She gained attention in the 1990s with paintings that initially appeared abstract and minimal, with a subtle palette and geometry. The delicate grids were formed by sheets of penmanship exercises adhered to the canvas, onto which the artist rendered…
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A Conversation with Ushio Amagatsu, Artistic Director of Sankai Juku
Kyoko Yoshida
Nov 2006
An interview conducted in Japanese and translated into English by Kyoko Yoshida, Director, U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network of Arts Midwest on behalf of Pomegranate Arts for the 12-City North American tour of __Kagemi. © Yoshida: All rights reserved
Yoshida:
Sankai Juku was founded in 1975, more than 30 years ago. For all these years, you have consistently created new works and toured extensively…
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Uncommon Ground
Shane Coen
Sep 2006
In October, Minneapolis will host one of the largest gatherings of landscape architects. The Twin Cities is an appropriate place for such an event—in addition to its renowned parks system, it is also home to two of the nation’s most acclaimed landscape architecture firms, Coen+Partners and oslund.and.assoc. Coen’s environmental design has been central to the creation of two remarkable residential…
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Celluloid, Magnetic Tape, and Pixels
Paul Schmelzer
Sep 2006
When the Walker founded its film department 33 years ago, curatorial decision-making revolved around expanding its new Edmond R. Ruben Film and Video Study Collection and programming a series of screenings that balanced contemporary movies with experimental films. Today, the job of Walker curators is decidedly more complex. A rich collection of experimental works is inherently tied to the classic…