The Visual Arts program illuminates the links between contemporary art and life by presenting, preserving, and commissioning the most compelling art of today. The Walker’s renowned collection and groundbreaking exhibitions engage audiences worldwide. More

Featured Exhibition

Frank Gaard: Poison & Candy

“Monet had his water lilies,” writes Frank Gaard, “and I have my panties.” Known for his brash personality and his idiosyncratic art practice, the Minneapolis-based painter has made an indelible mark on the local visual arts community over the past four decades. Using a vibrant, sometimes acrid palette… More

Tombstone for Phùng Vo

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” So reads the inscription on a black stone with gold-leaf engraving that will be installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next spring. A work by Danh Vo, it will reside here until the death of the artist’s father, when it will travel to Copenhagen to mark Phùng Vo’s final resting place. More

Julie Caniglia

Radical Realism: Lifelike Explores the Mutability of Reality

One long-standing notion in western culture is that an artist’s work should stand out. It should look and be strange somehow—if not bizarre, then at least out of the ordinary. The new Walker… More

Olga Viso

Jim Hodges’ Buoyant Monoliths: The Walker’s Newest Outdoor Commission

What began as a sketch on Jim Hodges’ studio wall—an image of a boulder with a small swatch of pink foil added—will become the newest addition to the Walker campus this spring. The circle of… More

Ginger Strand and Alec Soth

Postcards from America: We Don’t Ask About the Oryx

Postcards from America, the newly published book by a group of five Magnum photographers and writer Ginger Strand, recounts a two-week road trip through the American Southwest in May 2011. Here… More

Warhol 25 Years On
Via guardian.co.uk Andy Warhol “left his mark in many more ways than his actual work,” says Gillian Wearing, from his idea of hiring teams of artists to produce his work to his improvisational filmmaking. He died 25 years ago today.
Sherman Monument
Via moma.org For its Cindy Sherman retrospective, which comes to the Walker in November, MoMA installed a monumental mural featuring self-portraits of the artist as characters who “seem to be on the fringes of society,” according to curator Eva Respini.
“Book Burning” in Berlin
Via berlinbiennale.de A furor has erupted over Czech artist Martin Zet’s plan to make art from donated copies of a book by Thilo Sarrazin. Dubbed polarizing, “xenophobic and racist” by Igor Stokfiszewski, the books’ fate reminds some critics of Nazi-era book-burning.
New Art Lexicon
Via artinfo.com“As much as the theorists have interrogated ideas of beauty and the like, I don’t necessarily think the lexicon we use to discuss art has progressed,” says Nato Thompson in a discussion of his new book, Seeing Power.
Housing by Hirst
Via latimes.com Going from dots to plots, British artist Damien Hirst is reportedly working on a 500-home green development in North Devon. With groundbreaking to occur next year, the project will feature hidden wind turbines, solar panels and high-efficiency insulation.
Fragmented Liberty
Via nytimes.com For the New Museum’s triennial, Danh Vo presents a fragmented view of the Statue of Liberty: Five copper pieces, cast in China, could be assembled as part of a full-size replica of the American icon, but instead they remain un-united.