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The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture. Each year, the Walker Reader presents evolving series of original scholarly essays, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas reshaping us and our world.

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An editorial perspective on contemporary art: news links plus original interviews, essays, and videos.

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Visual Arts
By Walker Art Center

Rose Salane’s Confessions Series

How do fragments reflect desires to hold onto history? Rose Salane discusses her series that explores the relationship between objects taken, and then returned, to archaeological park of Pompeii.

Design
By Kris Paulsen

Is AI Sorry It Took Your Job?

As algorithmic systems increasingly dictate the rhythms of our reality, artist and data scientist Angie Waller delves into the broader human realities of tech and make visible the unseen forces of digital capitalism and authoritarian automation.