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Lifelike: Installing Jonathan Seliger’s Giant Milk Carton
Visual Arts Blog
Feb 22
Tuesday saw the arrival of an enormous partner to Robert Therrien’s gigantic folding table and chairs: Jonathan Seliger’s sculpture of an 8-1/2-foot-tall quart carton of America’s Choice Vitamin D milk. After being uncrated in Cargill Lounge, the bronze-and-enamel piece made its way to the Hennepin Avenue side of the building, where it’ll mark an entrance to the exhibitionLifelike, which opens…
PA
Blogs
Teen Programs and WACTAC Blog Archive Call for artists and performers age 14-21!
Teens Blog
Feb 22
Since 1994, the Walker Art Center has been the innovative leader in teen programming, providing cultural institutions around the world with a successful model for engaging teenagers. The mission of Teen Programs is to connect teenagers to contemporary art and artists. The Walker was the first art museum in the country to devote full-time staff to working with and building teen audiences…
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Continuous Deployment with Fabric
New Media Blog
Feb 22
We have been using Fabric to deploy changes to walkerart.org. Fabric is a library that enables a string of commands to be run on multiple servers. Though similar things could be done with shell scripts, we enjoy staying in one language as mush as possible. In Fabric, strings are composed and sent to remote servers as commands over an SSH connection. Our Fabric scripts have been evolving over…
FV
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Still Dots #21
Film/Video Blog
Feb 21
The Anna Schmidt we see before us now is one in transition; the dolled-up blonde fluttering her false eyelashes at the camera is all but gone. Her relatively seamless blonde wig is left as a crumpled rodent-like mass on her vanity and in seconds a closer shot will show Anna removing her large eyelashes, the last vestige of the character she has been performing. But this is of course not only…
PA
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Bill T. Jones, Gay Marriage and the Public Imagination
Performing Arts Blog
Feb 17
In April 2011, Bill T. Jones made a video for the Human Rights Campaign’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Initiative. The HRC’s campaign found success in New York, with same-sex marriage approved there in June and ratified in July. Gay marriage currently finds itself in a peculiar position in Minnesota, with a proposed constitutional amendment banning it before voters this November. The…
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Lifelike: Casebere, Hanson, Hay, Ray
Visual Arts Blog
Feb 17
With only a week to go until Lifelike opens, more works are heading into a galleries. A look at the newest additions as they go into place:
Alex Hay’s fiberglass Paper Bag (1968) stands nearly five feet tall, with Chuck Close’s Big Self Portrait (1967-1968) in the background. Photo: Gene Pittman
A detail shot of the ever-fascinating(Old) No One – in Particular #6, Series 2, a sculpture by Evan Penny…
PA
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Penelope Freeh Re-Views Bill T. Jones’ Story/Time
Performing Arts Blog
Feb 17
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnightreviews of our performances. The ongoing Re:View series shares a diverse array of independent voices and opinions; it doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of the Walker or its curators. Today, dancer-choreographer Penelope Freeh shares her perspective on Thursday night’s performance ofStory/Timeby the Bill T…
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Still Dots #20
Film/Video Blog
Feb 16
Today’s still has captured Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli), former lover of Harry Lime, at her most bewitching: meeting Holly Martins in her dressing room after a show at the Josefstadt Theater, Anna is both skeptical and intrigued, guarded yet increasingly frank. In other words, she’s somewhere between the role that she plays in the German-language comedy that Holly has just walked out of—we only see…
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Death Metal Film T-Shirts
Film/Video Blog
Feb 16
In the spirit of the Walker’s new Death Metal Logo T-shirt, we’d like to introduce you to your new rock ‘n’ roll wardrobe:
Hungarian filmmaking legend, Béla Tarr is known for his extremely long takes and slow-moving camera, but Black Flag made short fast songs. This punk legend made a huge impact, and was even covered by indie-rock wunderkinds Dirty Projectors for an entire album. Tarr has a long…