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Introducing the Walker Home & Garden Club
Field Guide
Dec 2012
How do you domesticate the institution? The Walker’s very own Home & Garden Club posed this question in honor of Fritz Haeg’s upcoming artist residency At Home in the City. The club hosts Walker staff whose interests span departments and all aspects of the home: baking, gardening, crocheting, saving seeds, drying herbs, and sewing lunchbox […]
How do you domesticate the institution? The Walker’s very own…
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Unfolding Still: A SpeakEasy for Deborah Hay
The Green Room
Dec 2012
A SpeakEasy is an informal audience discussion facilitated by a Walker tour guide and a local performer or choreographer. Today’s edition highlights themes shared during a conversation on Saturday, December 8, about Deborah Hay’s As Holy Sites Go. As Holy Sites Go concluded the Walker’s Deborah Hay Celebration, a week of events recognizing the career […]
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Fully Awake: Olive Bieringa on Deborah Hay
The Green Room
Dec 2012
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews 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, Olive Bieringa shares her perspective on Friday night’s performance of Fire and No […]
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Hang-Over: Art Basel Miami Banners are Cultural Bank Notes
The Gradient
Dec 2012
Here in Miami, Art Basel and related fairs are now far-past, full-swing. Art has been shown. Parties have been thrown. Many flights have departed, and tents will now come down. For now and a little longer we are all hung-over on Art, Basel and our drugs of choice. Mine is graphic design.
A few weeks ago—largely overnight—a sea of printed banners popped up all over Miami. Their function was to announce…
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Deborah Hay: Beauty Through Time and Leaving it Behind
The Green Room
Dec 2012
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews 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, Penelope Freeh shares her perspective on Wednesday night’s Talking Dance: A Lecture on the […]
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Lucy Lippard, the Walker, and Materializing “Six Years”
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Dec 2012
The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s current exhibition, Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, explores the impact of Lucy R. Lippard’s groundbreaking 1973 book Six Years and the development of the era’s highly influential conceptual art scene. In addition to works by 90 artists–including Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, and John Latham–the […]
The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s…