Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros’s Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.

In the lead up to their first major museum survey, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Christine Sun Kim sat down with the exhibition curators to discuss how musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English– impact her wide-ranging approach to art-making.

In conjunction with Kandis Williams’s first museum survey at the Walker, curator Taylor Jasper explores Williams’ deeply researched practice and its emerging visions of liberation.

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell and D’Angelo Lovell Williams discuss how Black queer culture, HIV, and the artists who came before them have shaped their work and lives.

How do we listen to the public spaces that we inhabit? Artist Max Neuhaus’s explores this question through the ring of a church bell that no longer exists, a silence in time square, and sound forms made for plants.

San Francisco-based artist Nancer LeMoins discusses the impact of HIV on her practice, climate change, and making work about women unseen by much of society.

A group of artists looks back on the evolution of one East Village apartment building where they worked, lived, and collaborated to reflect on embracing opportunities, cheap rent, and the impact HIV on the lives of artists.

Molly M. Pearson, member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD), speaks with artist Connor Dolan about complexities of materials, making the invisible visible, and the evolution of artwork about HIV and AIDS.

Through an original photo essay, artist Benjamin Fredrickson reflects on a formative period in Minneapolis that changed his own life, artwork, and relationship to HIV.

Reflecting on the history of Visual AIDS and its continued commitment today, Kyle Croft and Jake Yuzna consider the unique power that archives and artist programs can have on individuals, communities, and society.

An exploration into how the handmade is a source of power and radical change.

Move an elephant? Frame 200 drawings? Construct an indoor orchard? Nothing is impossible for the incredible exhibitions team at the Walker. Taking time out from their busy schedules, this talented team shares stories of their favorite projects and exhibitions.

For over 80 years, Franz Marc’s painting Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses) has called the Walker home. Jill Vuchetich, the Walker’s archivist, explores the history of this artwork at the Walker.

Denizen of the limelight, Juanita MORE! traces queer the evolution of nightlife in San Francisco from the 1970s until today.

Desperate drag queens, Debbie Harry, and boredom, oh my! Over late night email exchanges, two mainstays reflect on how the last fifty years of parties have informed today’s NYC nightlife landscape.

Raised in a country that no longer exists, Slovenian curator and writer Zdenka Badovinac discusses commandership, the potential of minority positions, and how rethinking socialism might help tackle life in today’s unraveling worlds.

How do museums collect and care for works of art that lack traditional physical forms, like VR, video, and works made of light? Joe King, the director of Collections and Exhibition Management at the Walker, discusses the unique and joyful challenges registrars have in the preservation and presentation of digital and durational artworks.

From the 1950s through the end of the 1980s, the film and TV schools in Prague and Poland attracted hundreds of students from countries including Syria, Algeria, Iran, India, Colombia, and Cuba. Looking back at this history, a group of scholars reconsider the successes and failures of this attempt by authorities to promote global socialist solidarity.

How does Acid Communism lead to a book? Exhibition catalogue designer Žiga Testen explains.

Exhibition curator Pavel S. Pyś explores experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s and their relationships between art and politics as well as the roles that institutions play in society.

40 years after the groundbreaking work of Howardena Pindell and Guerrilla Girls, Laurel Rand-Lewis, the Walker’s Curatorial Fellow for Collections, explores how the data of Museum collections continues to be a tool for change.

How does living in a sea of information shift the ways artworks can be political? Curator William Hernández Luege explores this question through Allan Sekula’s Fish Story.

In this previously unpublished interview from 2004, artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge discusses their most ambitious project, pandrogyny, wherein they merged two individuals into a single being.

Discover the exuberant and wide-ranging works and life of Pacita Abad, an artist who refused to back down and spoke truth to power via unapologetic expression in artwork and style.

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) curator Clarissa M. Esguerra explores the global textile materials and techniques that Pacita Abad utilized to create her work 100 Years of Freedom: From Batanes to Jolo.

Designer of the exhibition catalogue for Pacita Abad, Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn explores how the artist’s woven trapunto paintings, maximalism, and Philippine pre-colonial scripts influenced the creation of this unique book.

A exploration of humor’s history at the Walker by way of Marcel Duchamp, urinals, and bumper stickers.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pacita Abad this chronology traces the life of this exuberant and wide-ranging artist.

A glimpse into the Walker’s Rosemary Furtak Collection of over 2,000 artists’ books from the 1940s to today.