The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in November are highlighted by a Drawn Here: Contemporary Design in Conversation/Sneak Preview of the documentary Typeface on Thursday, November 6, 7 pm. Following a screening of the film, which explores the revival and preservation of wood type and letterpress printing, director Justine Nagan engages in a conversation with designer/author Bill Moran and Greg Corrigan, technical director of the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Other Target Free Thursday Nights programs in November include screenings of films by legendary Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, part of the Walker’s monthlong series In the Realm of Oshima: The Films of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshima, and shown in conjunction with the exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis, opening October 18. The screenings include The Sun’s Burial (Taiyo no hakaba), which is preceded by a tour of Tetsumi Kudo at 6:30 pm (November 13, 7:30 pm), and A Town of Love and Hope (Ai to kibo no machi) with Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (Yunbogi no nikki), introduced by Noboru Tomonari, Associate Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Literatures, Carleton College (November 20, 7:30 pm). Also, Sound Bites gallery talks are offered throughout the month on select Thursday evenings at 6:30 and 7 pm. Sound Bites illuminate an artist or work of art from the Walker’s world-class collection or one of its special exhibitions.
Target Free Thursday Nights
November 6, 13, 20 (closed on November 27 for Thanksgiving)
Galleries open 5–9; special events follow.
Free
Thursday, November 6
Sound Bites: Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Step inside the mind of Tetsumi Kudo with a Walker tour guide who will provide an overview of the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of the late Japanese artist’s work.
Design Lecture/Sneak Preview: Typeface, 7 pm
Directed by Justine Nagan
Cinema
$8 ($5 Walker, AIGA, and MCBA members)
Join us for Drawn Here: Contemporary Design in Conversation, featuring a special sneak preview of the documentary Typeface and post-screening discussion with film director Justine Nagan; designer/author Bill Moran; and Hamilton Museum technical director Greg Corrigan. Copresented by AIGA Minnesota and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Thursday, November 13
Sound Bites: What Is Conceptual Art?, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
A tour guide sheds some light on this popular question using specific works of art as a means to provide an answer or two.
Beyond the Gallery: Multidisciplinary Tour, 6:30 pm
Purchase a ticket to The Sun’s Burial and register for a free guided tour of the exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis. Tour is limited to 25 people.
Film: The Sun’s Burial (Taiyo no hakaba), 7:30 pm
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Oshima presents a gritty view of Japan’s underworld with a broad swipe at the image of Japan as the “land of the rising sun.” Two gangs—a young, ragtag crew and an organized older band of yakuza—vie to control the black market, prostitution, and other dirty dealings in an Osaka slum. 1960, new 35mm print, 87 minutes.
Thursday, November 20
Sound Bites: Eero Saarinen’s Modern Furnishings, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Satisfy your inner designer during an engaging talk by a Walker tour guide who will offer insights into Eero Saarinen’s innovative furniture designs.
Films: A Town of Love and Hope (Ai to kibo no machi) and Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (Yunbogi no nikki), 7:30 pm
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Introduced by Noboru Tomonari, Associate Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Literatures, Carleton College
A Town of Love and Hope, one of Oshima’s earliest films, examines the class struggle in Japan. A poor enterprising teen sells homing pigeons to unsuspecting customers as pets—only to have the birds return so he can sell them again—until his rich girlfriend gets wise to his scam. 1959, 35mm, 62 minutes.
Told through a series of still photos shot by the director (similar in style to Chris Marker’s La Jetée), Diary of a Yunbogi Boy combines the writings of a Korean boy abandoned by his family in Japan to show the struggles of the ethnic minority in Japan. 1965, 16mm, 30 minutes.
Thursday, November 27
Thanksgiving – Walker closed
