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Edward Larrabee Barnes
Andrew Blauvelt
Apr 2005
The Walker Art Center project was the first of many museum commissions that New York–based architect Edward Larrabee Barnes would receive during his long and distinguished career. In May 1971, the new building opened to great critical acclaim and quickly became a national model for museum design. Art critic Hilton Kramer declared, “In meeting its obligation to provide contemporary works of art with…
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New Spaces for Moving Images
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Apr 2005
Now open are two new areas for screenings of rare film prints, videos, and media installations. The Best Buy Film/Video Bay and the Lecture Room offer visitors a chance to see new acquisitions from the Walker’s Edmond R. Ruben Film and Video Study Collection, classic movies, and projects by artists-in-residence each day during regular gallery hours.
In the Lecture Room through August 20…
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Wide Open Jazz
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Apr 2005
Jazz probably hasn’t seen a more compelling or contentious figure than Ornette Coleman. Expanding the boundaries of “free jazz” with radical inventiveness, a polyglot infusion of musical traditions and techniques, and an impossible-to-define musical philosophy called “harmolodics,” he has sparked furious opposition during his half century of performing and composing. An angry musician once punched him…
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Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections
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Walker Style: A Discussion on the Job of Curating
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Apr 2005
How do curators design exhibitions? And how is a permanent collection developed? On the unprecedented installation of 11 galleries of Walker holdings, Curatorial Fellow Doryun Chong and Chief Curator Richard Flood discuss the collecting strategies behind the seven new exhibitions on view and the principles that guide the Walker’s Visual Arts program.
Doryun Chong:
This is the first time in Walker…
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8-Ball: Bill Frisell
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Apr 2005
Throughout a career spanning two decades and some 150 recordings, Grammy-winning guitarist/composer Bill Frisell has shared a long history with the Walker. Commissioned in 1999 to create his ambitious Blues Dream (Nonesuch), he has performed here numerous times and is a highlight of the Members’ Preview Party on April 16. Frisell recently took time from his busy schedule to answer some life’s most…
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Recent Acquisition: James Turrell, Sky Pesher, 2005
Yasmil Raymond
Jan 2005
Nestled into the new garden on the Walker’s expanded campus is an underground pathway that leads visitors into a modest square chamber. Sky Pesher, 2005 (2005) by American artist James Turrell is a freestanding room-size structure with a 16-square-foot aperture at the apex of its curving white ceiling. Influenced by his studies in perceptual psychology and optical illusion, Turrell is known for…
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The McGuire Theater: A New Home for Tomorrow’s Performance
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Jan 2005
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In one sense, a theater is to a performing arts curator what a white gallery is to his counterpart in the visual arts—an empty volume created to be animated by today’s most innovative minds and bodies. But in discussing the new William and Nadine McGuire Theater in the Walker expansion, design consultant Josh Dachs offers a different analogy. “These spaces are for telling stories, and the idea of…
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Riding the (New) Wave: An Interview with Avant-Garde Film Curator Sally Dixon
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Jan 2005
Working with American avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s and ’70s was thrilling, says Sally Dixon. A creator of “film poems” in the 1960s and later one of the country’s first curators of avant-garde film, Dixon recalls her days of deep personal and professional connection with luminaries such as Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Bruce Baillie, Carolee Schneeman, Paul Sharits, Kenneth Anger, James Broughton…