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…

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…

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…

With the opening of  Lifelike just a week away, more and more works are arriving. Assistant registrar Jessica Rolland caught this juxtaposition in Receiving the other day: Ron Mueck’s Crouching Boy in Mirror (1999-2000) adjacent the (suddenly nervous-looking) man in Evan Penny’s Old (No One – in Particular #6, Series 2 (2005).

Monday saw the arrival of what surely must be one of the world’s largest card tables. In anticipation of the February 24 preview of the exhibition Lifelike, Robert Therrien’s sculptural table — measuring just under nine feet in height — arrived via semi-trailer with four folding chairs, all crated. Made from metal and fabric, the 2007 work was loaded in through the Walker’s Hennepin entrance and…

If you don’t have a Valentine this year, we’re here to help you out so that by this time next year, you won’t have to pay any attention to our ideas. The only requirement for this self-guided tour is that you need to go with another person. That is the entire point of this. By the end of this short guide, you will be able to know whether or not you are totally compatible. Ready? Group 8 by…

Mike Kelley, the LA-based artist known for his riffs on American popular culture, died in South Pasadena last week in an apparent suicide at the age of 57. We at the Walker Art Center are deeply saddened to lose such a unique and uncompromising artist—a true champion of independent thinking—and extend our deep sympathy to his friends, colleagues, and studio staff who feel his loss keenly.

With the theme of “Look Again” in mind, I arrived in great anticipation to Park City, Utah at the reputable haven for independent filmmaking for the2012 Sundance Film Festival. Droves of eager visitors—programmers like myself and Walker curator Sheryl Mousley, industry folks from Hollywood and Europe, actors, directors, and aspiring filmmakers—made for a motley group that traveled in waves from…

Walker chief curator Darsie Alexander is in New Delhi for the India Art Fair. Read her earlier dispatch, on her visit to the studios of Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta. The India Art Fair is now in day three, and the crowds have hardly subsided. While the clientele is not entirely what one might find at other global fairs like Frieze, there was a lively energy in the booths and passageways (there…