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The Nine Lives of the Internet Cat Video Festival
Paul Schmelzer & Scott Stulen
Mar 1
The world’s first Internet Cat Video Festival brought 10,000 people—some in costumes, others cradling kitty companions—to the Walker’s lawn last August. Since then, the event has spawned other lives: a national tour, more media interest, and the just-announced 2013 edition. Festival producer Scott Stulen discusses cat culture, viral trends, and how the Internet is the cat lover’s version of the dog park.
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Meet the Minnesota Artists of This Clement World
The Green Room
Mar 1
Cynthia Hopkins has invited a slew of talented Twin Cities musicians to perform beside her in next week’s Midwest debut of This Clement World. This part-music, part-theater performance investigates expansive issues of climate change and more personal struggles with addiction. Pulled from various music scenes of the Twin Cities, Cynthia brings these twelve musicians to […]
Cynthia Hopkins has invited a…
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Headline Rewind: WikiLeaks and All the President’s Men
Crosscuts
Mar 1
On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to other films pulled from a headline in the week’s news in a series called Headline Rewind. News Event: Pfc. Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks Appearing before a military judge yesterday for more than an hour, Pfc. Bradley Manning confessed to supplying a […]
On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to…
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Applied Design
Via colbertnation.com
Feb 28
Come for the jokes, stay for the applied design: MoMA curator Paola Antonelli matched wits with Stephen Colbert Wednesday, highlighting objects from a vase made by bees (through “slow prototyping”) to Massoud Hassani’s landmine-exploding “dandelion.”
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Video: Molley Zuckerman-Hartung on “Deconstructed Painting”
Walker Channel
Feb 28
“It’s hard to stay within the rectangle,” says Molly Zuckerman-Hartung of her art, which she describes as deconstructed painting. “I had to unlearn everything I was doing to get to riskiness or spilling or pouring or mistakes or accidents or any of the stuff that looks so naturalized in the work now.”