Brett and Erin Smith are a brother and sister collaborating artist duo, who are working with us for the Where Art Thou? event this upcoming Thursday,  April 25th from 5-9 PM. Both having backgrounds in industrial design, product design and visual arts, they are helping us make our dream of building a giant fort in the Cargill Lounge come true. Gearing up towards this event, we’ve brought up a few…

Museum Mixtape takes current pieces on display at the Walker Art Center and pairs them up with musical accompaniment from the best artists of the past and present. Museum Mixtape’s second addition pairs up Jack Pierson’s “Frankie & Johnny” with “Howl At That Moon” by Bomba De Luz. “Howl At That Moon” is remeniscent of styles lost in time. It posesses an old school acoustic sound as if it were an homage…

Click. Refresh. Click. Refresh. Click. Refresh. Is this it? Nope. It’s another fan made remix that Stereogum jumped on too fast. Second time today I fell for something like this. Oh, there it is! False alarm. Argggh! And that’s how I spent Tax Day 2013. I’m in full-on junkie mode searching for the full version […] Nope. It’s another fan made remix that Stereogum jumped on too fast. Second time today I fell for…

The intriguing, dangling sculpture in the Hennepin Avenue lobby of the Walker is also a conversation piece. “Those are manger sheep,” one passerby told me. “Are those stickers?” asked another, pointing to the new window decals. Evocative and oddly familiar, Andy Messerschmidt’s  Friend Me/Follow Me: Graze Anatomy (2012), the new installation in the Walker’s “oculus,” looks like […] The intriguing, dangling sculpture…