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.
Did you know that the Walker Art Center has a library and archive that is free and open to the public? The amazing team of librarians, archivists, and dedicated volunteers who steward this treasure trove share their favorite items found in the Walker’s library.
Meet this amazing team of Walker Art Center staff and learn more about the unique life of the works on view in our permanent collection.
A warm welcome to the Walker’s new Head of Public Engagement, Learning, and Impact (PELI) Amanda Hunt.
Chuck Close, an artist who had a long history with the Walker Art Center, passed away this week at the age of 81. Considered one of contemporary art’s most influential figurative painters, Close was committed to rigorous experimentation within his rigidly defined practice, remaining a vital presence through his decades-long career by focusing exclusively on portraiture.
Chuck Close, an artist who had a long history with the Walker Art Center, passed away this week at the age of 81. Considered one of contemporary art’s most influential figurative painters, Close was committed to rigorous experimentation within his rigidly defined practice, remaining a vital presence through his decades-long career by focusing exclusively on portraiture.
Several weeks ago, a group of Walker Art Center employees informed us of their intention to organize a union for Walker staff. From the outset of this process, the Walker has affirmed the right of employees to unionize and indicated a willingness to working with union leadership should a majority of the staff indicate an interest in being represented by a union.
The Walker Art Center is taking every precaution for the safety and care of all visitors, staff, and artists. To proactively protect the entire community, the museum will remain temporarily closed. We hope to resume our activities and welcome you back soon.
Just launched, the third volume of the Walker’s Living Collections Catalogue traces a rich period of artistic experimentation with forms of radical collectivity, aesthetic production, and political mobilization. Presenting newly commissioned texts and surfacing unique archival materials, the publication explores the work of artists active in the United States between the 1960s and the 1980s—including Asco, Haus-Rucker-Co, Studio Z, Grand Union, and Mabou Mines—whose practices were highly collaborative, interdisciplinary, and often aligned with social movements.
In 1987, a New York gallery contacted the Walker with an extraordinary offer: an opportunity to purchase 317 prints by Jasper Johns—everything the artist had produced up to that point. No public institution in the world owned a complete collection of graphic work by Johns—who, it turns out, was the unnamed seller behind the collection. As we open An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018, curator Joan Rothfuss looks at this distinctive body of work by an American icon.
The Walker’s world-renowned collections feature diverse artists whose works continually question the possibilities of art. Over the course of the last 15 months, the newest additions—by artists from Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, and Christian Marclay to Trisha Baga, Tetsuya Yamada, and Martine Syms—were guided by a strong focus on two key areas: interdisciplinary practices and collecting works by emerging artists.
“Where did we see innovation in how we approach online discourse about art today? Where were we brave, or creative, or unexpected in our publishing? What just felt right?” Walker Reader’s editor shares the magazine’s top moments of 2019—from a reconsideration of a 1940 Edward Hopper masterpiece to incisive discussion of topics from museum neutrality to queer design pedagogy to Indigenous fashion.
The Walker Art Center is seeking actors, dancers, musicians, and members of the public to activate 10 artworks testing the boundaries between stillness and aliveness as part of the 2020 exhibition The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance.
Founded by Juan Fried in 2014 after a lifetime of interest in sculpture, Metalarchill is a neologism that combines “metal” and “Larchill,” the historic name of the larch-lined, hilltop homestead where the Venezuela-born architect and designer lives and works.
Founded by husband and wife Jeanju Choi-Johnson and Joe Johnson in 2007, the jewelry designs of ITSNONAME—an anagram for Minnesota where they were both born and raised—are meant to tell a story and create a statement of self-awareness.
With a background in strategic communications, marketing, and advertising, Jordyn Diorio founded MEND in 2017 as a business that connects jewelry with customers in a meaningful way.
The Walker Art Center announced today that Henriette Huldisch will be its next Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Huldisch is currently Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has worked since 2014.
