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Maria Hassabi Discusses STAGING

Occupying a space between performance and visual art, Maria Hassabi’s work explores stillness and sustained motion. In Minneapolis to present STAGING in the Walker galleries, she discussed how her sculptural movement installations examine the tension between the human form and the artistic object.

Ericka Beckman’s You The Better

Visiting a casino in the early 1980s, Ericka Beckman was struck by the “use of human value” on display: white gamblers in elevated seats placing bets on a jai-alai game played by Mexicans in a pit below. In a new interview Beckman discusses You The Better (1983/2015), a video informed by that visit that explores chance and capitalism through game play.

Jack Whitten on Mapping the Soul

“As an abstract painter, I work with things that I cannot see. Google has mapped the whole earth. We have maps of Mars. We do not have a map of the soul, and that intrigues me.” To commemorate Whitten’s passing on January 20, 2018 at age 78, we revisit his reflection on Soul Map (2015), a large-scale acrylic collage that offers a poignant cartography of the invisible.