Combined Walker Blogs http://blogs.walkerart.org/ Apparently once the Telluride festival and the accompanying student symposium start, they unfold at mind-crushing speed. All of a sudden I’m back in the Twin Cities with four days behind me that permitted hardly a moment to eat a meal or navigate the bears roaming the nighttime streets. Well, better late than never, I suppose: As [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/09/04/telluride-waltz-bashir/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/09/04/telluride-waltz-bashir/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:28:55 +0000 This may be a bit inside baseball, but Taylor Carik links up Minnesota Monthly’s amusing chart of just how cool you are (or aren’t) in the local art scene: I am, apparently, not very cool. I must take issue with the mnartists.org dig, but would hope anyone setting up their own site would keep their mnartists.org [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/09/04/cool-local-art-scene/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/09/04/cool-local-art-scene/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:49:47 +0000 Maybe it’s all the dogs moseying in and out of restaurants absorbing affection from strangers, or maybe it’s the crates of fresh Colorado peaches sold at every corner, or maybe it’s just these humbling pine-covered mountains, but I think I’m finally understanding why everybody kept telling me Telluride Colorado is a special place. I come [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/29/telluride/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/29/telluride/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:05:56 +0000 There are murmurings of summer being over. Well, let's make it clear that summer is NOT over. We've got at least 3 weeks of warmth left, right? To prove that summer is still with us I took a walk through the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden this afternoon. The late August sun blanketed the sculptures and many [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/28/advantage-garden-wac-packs-summer/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/28/advantage-garden-wac-packs-summer/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:14:31 +0000 The UnConvention is kicking into high gear this week and next. A lot of things have been happening and coming together. Here’s an update: Minneapolis-based ad agency Campbell Mithun put together an ad campaign for The UnConvention called “Make An Effort” (see video above). It’s a tongue in cheek effort, poking fun at Republican and Minnesotan [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/28/unconvention-update-fruit-freedom/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/28/unconvention-update-fruit-freedom/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:12:56 +0000 Our friend Byran Kennedy posted some documentation of a project he’s been working on called Rain Table: Eventually the table will be part of an exhibit called Water: H20 = Life, which the Science Museum is working on with the American Museum of Natural History. Unlike some other tables we’ve profiled that seem to exist just [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/08/21/science-museum-minnesotas-rain/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/08/21/science-museum-minnesotas-rain/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:23:24 +0000 I’m pretty excited to announce that out of the plethora of answers to the game I posted, nobody got all the answers right. I’m happy to report that this black and white interior picture (fig. 1) stumped everybody. I’m lucky to have found it; there aren’t many pictures available online of the interior [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/20/answers-eeros-interiors/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/20/answers-eeros-interiors/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:28:19 +0000 Tuesday, September 2, 6:30PM, Free Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2501 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404 (map) Artist Sharon Hayes stages protests, delivers speeches and organizes demonstrations as ongoing artistic investigations into the relations of history, politics and space. At both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions Hayes is mounting large-scale public performances titled Revolutionary Love [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/20/sharon-hayes-give-artist-talk/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/20/sharon-hayes-give-artist-talk/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:07 +0000 Anna Shogren - LA BREA "...the animals might become trapped like a fly caught on flypaper...not likely to pass on a free meal, a pack of dire wolves or a sabertoothed cat would attack the mired animal... After an intense struggle over the helpless prey, some of the attacking predators would become trapped as well. [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/08/15/momentum-weekend-2-2/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/08/15/momentum-weekend-2-2/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:48 +0000 When the Walker hired Herzog & de Meuron to design the expansion in 2000, the Swiss architectural firm wasn’t exactly anonymous. Having just finished the masterful Tate Modern makeover, they were then promptly awarded the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture. Several high profile projects followed, but on August 8, 2008, their highest profile [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/13/herzog-de-meuron-progress-update/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/13/herzog-de-meuron-progress-update/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:35:48 +0000 Musician, artist, former garden rocker, and avid cyclist David Byrne, was not only a juror for a recent bike rack design competition in New York, but an entrant as well. The City has gone ahead and produced some of his site specific designs. You can read about them in the New York Times or take [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/12/david-byrnes-bike-racks/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/12/david-byrnes-bike-racks/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:39:00 +0000 On a recent weekend afternoon Kyle Blue (former Walker Design Fellow) and I had a nice little iChat conversation about Dwell’s (somewhat) recent redesign. Here are the highlights: Chad: How many people are on the design team, and how did you become design director? Kyle: There are four designers including myself. I worked at Dwell for [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/11/redesigning-dwell/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/11/redesigning-dwell/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:27 +0000 Anna Marie Shogren, like Eric Clapton, is God. And so inevitably in time, she’ll be — just like the Beatles — bigger than Jesus. 1. La Brea. Tar Pits: “home to over three million fossils from the last Ice Age.” 2. Death. Death. Death. 3. Living (or Trying To) In This Pisspot 4. I Am A Jerk It was killing me [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/08/10/momentum-2-anna-marie-shogren/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/08/10/momentum-2-anna-marie-shogren/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:21:11 +0000 Transcribed below from an old-fashioned audiocassette, presumably without the knowledge of Vice President Dick Cheney (though one can never be sure these days), my recent marathon phone chat with Robb Moss–Boston-based co-director of Secrecy, screening four times at the Walker as part of the “Cinema of Urgency” series–began, in the interests of narrowing an almost [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/08/secrecy-shhhdont-spoil-movie/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/08/secrecy-shhhdont-spoil-movie/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:35:11 +0000 Sharon Hayes, ‘In the Near Future, London, 2008′, Multiple-slide-projection installation, 3 actions, 3 projections; 243 slides, Courtesy Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin As some of you might know, the Walker Art Center is a local partner, with the Unconvention, in Creative Time's presentation of Sharon Hayes' participatory performance project, Revolutionary Love 2: I am your best [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/08/08/rally-band-queers/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/08/08/rally-band-queers/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:01:00 +0000 With its tattered and sad looking manila envelope marked only by a hastily written exhibition description, this exhibition catalogue has a very unassuming appearance in the context of an entire shelf of fine, hardbound art catalogues. Expecting to open the envelope to find a fits-in-your-palm-sized catalogue, I was instead delighted to find the unexpected: 138 [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/05/friday-finds-955000-unconventional/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/05/friday-finds-955000-unconventional/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:44:08 +0000 Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/04/nasa-internet-archive-profit/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/08/04/nasa-internet-archive-profit/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:00:50 +0000 I try to keep my regurgutations of other blogs and news items relegated to my (ir)regular Shorts posts, but after reading this Observations on film art and FILM ART post, I find it necessary to give it a post of its own. In it, David Bordwell applies his mind’s analytical eye to an in depth [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/04/jules-jim-david-bordwells-art/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/08/04/jules-jim-david-bordwells-art/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:52:01 +0000 Our final day began with an exciting talk by Dr. Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises and D-Rev. Dr. Polak is also the author of Out of Poverty, a book that inspired the exhibition Design for the Other 90%. After his talk, Dr. Polak was kind enough to sign copies of his [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/01/summer-design-institute-day-5/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/08/01/summer-design-institute-day-5/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:01:21 +0000 Day 4 started off with an inspiring talk from Bryan Bell, the founder of Design Corps. Bryan describes himself as a “design advocate,” helping bring architectural services to under represented populations, such as migrant workers. The day continued with the teachers working hard on their Design for Necessity projects. Teachers are looking to find [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/31/summer-design-institute-day-4/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/31/summer-design-institute-day-4/ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:50:22 +0000 We’ve tabulated the results for My Yard Our Message and the 50 winning signs are posted. The wisdom of crowds looks like it has paid off, too: the winning designs really are the cream of the crop. The top vote-getter is “peace,” by teri_kwant, with 130 people saying they would put the sign in [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/31/yard-message-winning-yard-signs/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/31/yard-message-winning-yard-signs/ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:11:38 +0000 Where can you view all 50 winning My Yard Our Message signs together in the great outdoors where nature intended? The Twin Cities of course! We are very excited to announce that our My Yard Our Message gallery neighborhoods will be Dayton’s Bluff and the West Side in St. Paul, and Seward in [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/31/yard-message-encourages/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/31/yard-message-encourages/ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:51:52 +0000 · R.I.P. Youssef Chahine: One of the most prominent filmmakers of the Arab world passed away at his home on Sunday. Walker presented his Silence… We’re Rolling in April 2002. The New York Times reports. · Minneapolis rooted River Road Entertainment (Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild) has signed on to produce a [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/29/shorts-39/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/29/shorts-39/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:27:59 +0000 Time is running out to cast votes for your favorite yard signs in My Yard Our Message. Voting will officially close on Sunday the 27th. But in reality, it probably won’t actually be closed until the morning of Monday the 28th, since that’s when I’ll update the code and turn voting off. Once the voting is [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/25/voting-closed-yard-message/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/25/voting-closed-yard-message/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:41:23 +0000 Anna Marie Shogren The beginning of what couldn't be a more contrasting evening. We saw Anna working with silence and stripped down movement. There were several simple and isolated scenic elements, and the action that occurred was equally so. It was dark, spare, and uninviting. Some silliness at the three quarter mark emphasized the emptiness of the [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/25/momentum-2008-2nd-weekend-leash/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/25/momentum-2008-2nd-weekend-leash/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:23:19 +0000 Eddie Oroyan: Brown Rocket "I'm getting eaten by the same beast I'm trying to kill." Wangechi Mutu, visual artist The tiger is symbolic of passion, power, devotion and sensuality. They are territorial and solitary, coming together only to mate. Most hunt slowly and silently at night. In Hindu ideology, the tiger is kin to the goddess [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/25/momentum-2008-eddie-oroyan/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/25/momentum-2008-eddie-oroyan/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:26:49 +0000 Anna Marie Shogren: La Brea I see a tapestry of an ink drawing of elephants- a mother and her calf are safe on dry land as the father is drowning in a tar pit, his trunk extended to the heavens and his mouth open as he roars defiantly to his death…….. Elephants are symbolic of ancient power, [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/momentum-2008-anna-marie-shogren/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/momentum-2008-anna-marie-shogren/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:34:17 +0000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 While working [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/15/rosemary-furtak-artist-books/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/15/rosemary-furtak-artist-books/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:31:02 +0000 I recently stumbled upon this amazing Flick’r set of archival photography from the Library of Congress and felt compelled to share … it’s a nice change from the knee-deep waters of riff-raff I typically find myself wading through. Outside of the aesthetic beauty, images are also meticulously captioned and the collection frequently updated. You can [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/15/locs-pilot-project-flickr/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/15/locs-pilot-project-flickr/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:54:29 +0000 As someone who’s mildly interested in new media art, I’ve always felt like I’ve been watching from afar as cool work is created and tinkered with, usually in Europe, New York, or the Bay Area. Since the demise of New Media Initiatives as a curatorial department in the Walker, the Twin Cities has seemed lacking [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/08/artists-verge-media-grants/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/08/artists-verge-media-grants/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:59:20 +0000 There isn’t a decent web developer alive that doesn’t harbor a deep-seated hatred for Internet Explorer. For years we have dreamed about the day when we could cast off the shackles of developing for the users who are struck with a browser that predates web 2.0. We developers don’t know anyone who still uses IE6; [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/03/death-ie6-browser-independence-day/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/03/death-ie6-browser-independence-day/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:49:39 +0000 The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., calls Eero Saarinen “the least-known famous architect of the 20th Century.” This illuminating, illustrated primer at Slate does something to change that. So does Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, which moves at summer’s end from the National to Minneapolis, where the Walker and Minneapolis Institute of Art are [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/02/slate-saarinen/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/07/02/slate-saarinen/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:50:06 +0000 by Betsy Carpenter, Doryun Chong, Peter Eleey, Siri Engberg, and Yasmil Raymond, visual arts curators Philippe Vergne is a brilliant curator and that rare combination of sparkling intellect, humor, and grace. He has an infectious love of art and an incredible, innate gift for working with artists--understanding them, connecting with their creative process, and communicating that [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/06/26/philippe-vergne-tribute/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/06/26/philippe-vergne-tribute/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:04:49 +0000 — The 1999 Design Insights Lecture Series poster for the Walker Art Center (co-presented by AIGA Minnesota) is simply the most thorough and exhaustively produced poster I have seen in my day. Thus the poster is a deserving addition to our Flat Files collection. With the informational side of the poster designed by Daniel Eatock and [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/26/flat-files-8-1999-design-insights/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/26/flat-files-8-1999-design-insights/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:30:32 +0000 Recently, after receiving the latest issue of Z/X, designer and Walker alumni Layla Tweedie-Cullen was kind enough to answer a few of my questions regarding the publication: What is Z/X? What is its history and mission? Z/X is a visual arts publication established in 2004 at Manukau School of Visual Arts, a South Auckland art school [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/23/zx/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/23/zx/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:33:12 +0000 As Minneapolis inaugurates the third largest annual Pride Festival in the country this weekend, New York based artist Sharon Hayes is visiting the Twin Cities to launch Revolutionary Love 2: I Am Your Best Fantasy, a public performance that will involve 70-100 local participants coming together to publicly demonstrate the relationship between love and politics [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/06/20/army-lovers-fail/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/06/20/army-lovers-fail/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:30:41 +0000 Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/13/dymaxion-man/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/13/dymaxion-man/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:15:22 +0000 Besides running his own firm, teaching at Parsons, and writing for BusinessWeek Online, designer Rob Giampietro maintains Lined & Unlined, his “filing cabinet on the internet.” In an effort to connect with his readers (and in his general spirit of gift-giving) Rob put his blog on hold for a week in May and instead mailed [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/06/rob-giampietros-posts-post/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/06/rob-giampietros-posts-post/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:13:48 +0000 In the dawn of the Walker blogs, I had the privilege of writing the first post on the Visual Arts site. Some of you, our faithful readers, may remember my little adventure in the Mojave Desert in search of a used airplane part. You may also remember the very slow march of the elephant [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/16/chinese-homecoming/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/16/chinese-homecoming/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:51:46 +0000 Last week I met someone who, upon learning I’m a curator, asked me what I do at work every day--a reasonable question. Right now, I'm currently finishing up installing the exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing with our esteemed crew. (The show opens Thursday night with [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/14/spatial-voodoo/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/14/spatial-voodoo/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:05:04 +0000