Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections

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Towards a New Digital Landscape
Kimberly Drew
May 11
With dismal representation by women and people of color in tech and art fields, it’s time to imagine a new landscape of digital art, one that’s as diverse and equitable as possible, writes Black Contemporary Art founder Kimberly Drew. In hopes of sparking conversation about representation, erasure, and the future of digital art, she highlights—in their own words—18 artists shaping this new terrain.
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Future Perfect: The Walker’s One-Campus Vision
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Mar 30
In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we announce a new plan to unify the Walker and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden into a more welcoming and environmentally sustainable campus for the next generation. Key features of the 19-acre campus include a new entry pavilion for the Walker, reconstruction of the 26-year-old garden, the greening of Hennepin Avenue, the addition of hundreds of new trees, and more.
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A Culture Wars Chronicle
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Mar 25
As identity politics made their way into galleries and museums in the ’80s and ’90s, social conservatives took note, lashing out at artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley, and Ron Athey for work that addressed sexuality, multiculturalism, and LGBT rights. Featuring many of these artists, the Walker found itself at the center of the conversation—and the controversies—that marked the Culture Wars.
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Rock the Garden: 30 Facts about the 2015 Lineup
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Mar 10
Modest Mouse’s UFO encounter. Belle & Sebastian’s children’s-hospital cover of “Don’t Stop Believing.” Babes in Toyland’s friendship with Cindy Sherman. thestand4rd’s Kanye connection. In announcing the Rock the Garden lineup we embraced the festival’s garden locale and did some digging. Here’s the full roster for 2015’s two-day festival, along with all the weird, wonderful facts we’ve unearthed.
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Collecting Forward
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Dec 2014
With an eye toward the future, and across disciplines and geography, the Walker’s collecting practices have long sought to support artists early in their careers. Looking at works in Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, the exhibition’s curators tell the stories behind well-timed purchases of favorite works by artists including Chuck Close, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, and Za Wou-Ki.
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A Timeline of Design History
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Oct 2014
For nearly fifty years, the Walker’s Design Quarterly chronicled the changing terrains of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and product and graphic design. Featuring provocative thinkers—including Muriel Cooper, Martin Filler, and Armin Hofmann—DQ charted design’s history, from a form-follows-function modernism of the ’40s to the affectations of postmodernism in the ’80s and ’90s.
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Introducing the Walker People’s Archive
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Oct 2014
From John Cage’s birthday party to “Babies at the Walker,” the newly launched Walker People’s Archive surveys the museum’s rich 75-year history through an array of visitor-submitted photos and anecdotes. Among the stories shared: At the opening of Ellsworth Kelly’s 1975 retrospective at the Walker, the artist is said to have liked the show… before saying that “only one of [his] images was upside down.”
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Avant Garden 2014 Auction Items
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Sep 2014
Matt Connors Untitled, 2014 acrylic on canvas 36 x 26 in. Value: $17,000 Courtesy the artist and CANADA New York–based painter Matt Connors received his BFA from Bennington College and his MFA from Yale University. For Connors, painting is a visual means of relating to the world and his canvases absorb influences from a disparate and evolving roster of artists as well as writers, poets, filmmakers, and…
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Projecting the City
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Jun 2014
What can a city be? This year’s Northern Spark festival activates downtown Minneapolis, the riverfront, and the greenway around the theme “Projecting the City.” Dozens of artists will fill the night with performances, interactive art, and playful interventions that imagine new futures for the city or celebrate the best of what we’ve got. Here are some of the projects we’re most excited to see.

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View of the exhibition Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, 2014
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With an eye toward the future, and across disciplines and geography, the Walker’s collecting practices have long sought to provide support to artists early in their careers. Looking at works in Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, exhibition curators Joan Rothfuss and Olga Viso tell the stories behind well-timed purchases of favorite, not to mention important, works from artists including Chuck Close, Maya Deren, Nam Jun Paik, Cindy Sherman, and Za Wou-Ki.
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Marsden Hartley, Cleophas, Master of the “Gilda Grey”, 1938–1939

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Part of Walktoberfest: Celebrating the Walker’s 75th Anniversary

In 2015, the Walker will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding as a public art center dedicated to presenting and collecting the art of our times. Curated by the Walker’s executive director Olga Viso and guest curator Joan Rothfuss, the exhibition looks at 75 years of collecting at the Walker—a history distinguished not only by bold and often risk-taking choices but also acquisitions that have consistently breached the boundaries of media or disciplines. The exhibition foregrounds many of these prescient choices.

On view for a two-year period will be many iconic works from the collection, including Edward Hopper’s Office at Night (1940), Franz Marc’s The Large Blue Horses (1911), Chuck Close’s Big Self-Portrait (1967–1968), Yves Klein’s Mondo Cane Shroud (1961), and others.

Curators: Olga Viso and Joan Rothfuss, with Andrew Blauvelt, Jill Vuchetich, and Mia Lopez
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Major support for the exhibition is provided by Elizabeth Redleaf. Additional support provided by Ann Birks and Miriam and Erwin Kelen. Media partner Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.
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