This year, the Walker Art Center’s artist-designed mini-golf course features two eight-hole courses, both of which offer some fiendishly difficult—and entertaining—holes. The course is open every day through Sept. 8, Sun.-Wed, 10 a.m.-8 p.m; Thur.-Sat., 10 a.m.-10 p.m., weather permitting.
Don’t be Fooled, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness is brilliant
Some years ago, in a report that may or may not be credible, it was asserted that young people supposedly get more of their news now from fake news shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from real news shows or newspapers—which the kiddies don’t watch or read, in…
A Must-See: Cindy Sherman @ Walker Art Center
One often hears it said that Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential and important artists working today. But until you see her work en totale—as it is being shown at the Walker Art Center in an extraordinary retrospective spanning 30 years of the artist’s career—it’s difficult to appreciate how much work Sherman…
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s
Ah, the 1980s. With so much going on during this tumultuous decade—dangerously big hair, Rubik’s Cube mania, the Milli Vanilli lip-synching scandal, the Cabbage Patch Doll craze—who knew there were so many serious artists thinking serious things and making art to address the utter artlessness of the 1980s?
Yet there they are, over at the Walker Art Center, more than 100 of them, in…
The Walker Arts Center Announces its 2012-13 Performing Arts Season
The Walker Art Center announced its 2012-13 performing arts season on Thursday, and it looks to be another good one. Highlights include a new solo work by performance artist Laurie Anderson, an experimental multimedia/music piece by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and several of his friends, and a day-long 60th birthday bash for composer/musician/producer John Zorn.
In all there are six commissioned works, three world premieres,…
Review: Lifelike @ Walker Art Center
One of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid was Land of the Giants, a sci-fi series about the crew of a spaceship that crash-lands on an Earth-like planet where everything is 12 times bigger than they are. As shrunken-people stories go, it was much more satisfying than The Borrowers or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, in part because the set was full…
Frank Gaard: Poison & Candy @ Walker Art Center
The much-anticipated 40-year retrospective of local artist/teacher/provocateur/imp Frank Gaard is up and glowing at the Walker Art Center. Said to be the largest collection of Gaard’s work ever assembled (though CO Exhibitions had a nice Gaard show last year), Frank Gaard: Poison & Candy features more than 200 works, including large-scale paintings,…
British Advertising Awards @ Walker Art Center
Every December, the Walker Art Center pays homage to the art of advertising by screening the British Advertising Awards, an entertaining compendium of the year’s best telly ads from across the pond—where, as everyone knows, everything is cleverer, due to the fact that drinking heavily at lunch in England is highly encouraged.
This year the event has been renamed the British Arrows Awards, partly to…
Graphic Design: Now in Production @ Walker Art Center
In
the past 20 years, the art of graphic design has gone from something only a few
well-trained people could do…
Review: 1968 @ Minnesota History Center
The moment you step into the Minnesota History Center’s new
exhibit, 1968, you will be
transported back to that storied year via the sonorous voice of Walter
Kronkite, reporting from the front lines of the Vietnam War. He appears on the
Zenith console TV in the corner of a room decorated to the exact specifications
of the late-1960s middle class—snot-green…
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