William Yang, from Australia, gave a sneak peek of his work Monday to about two dozen people at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Yang, who shared the evening with a half-dozen Native American poets, singers and other performers, presents his full autobiographical slide show, Shadows, 8 pm Wednesday and Thursday in the Walker’s McGuire Theater.
Our exhibitions will blow your doors off (insert reverb here). Well, we took down our doors along Hennepin Avenue Monday to make room for two artworks too large to fit through our loading dock. They’re destined for Richard Prince: Spiritual America.
The Walker shop sells a product called Q-Ba-Maze, a Lego-like system of clear/colored plastic cubes that kids (or you) can fit together to sculpt … well, virtually anything. Drop a marble into any hole, stand back and watch the magic. I bring you this little commission-free plug because the Walker tapped architect-turned-Q-Ba-Maze founder Andrew Comfort to fill the shop display window facing Hennepin Avenue with something colorful, grand and plastic. With the help of University of Minnesota art and architecture students, Comfort spent most of Monday (and likely much of today) installing a giant replica of a red snapper. Eavesdrop dropped in on his process.
This “Eavesdrop” installment takes you to Thursday’s press preview of the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, led by co-curators Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker and Tracy Myers of the Heinz Architectural Center, in Pittsburgh. Installers were still painting, hanging work and gluing pieces together to get ready for tonight’s official opening. If you get the chance, also check out the previous Eavesdrop installment, where Blauvelt shows you the two- and three-dimensional models he used to put the exhibition together.
This installment has Andrew Blauvelt, the Walker’s design director, showing how he organized the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, which opens February 16.
Frida Kahlo drew thousands for its closing weekend, and Walker technicians took the show down Monday and Tuesday without an audience. Take a peek at the final patch of work that went into this exhibition.
After reading this New York Times piece about people taking up their lunch hours (and beyond) by watching online video, it seemed to me life at the Walker would could make for a natural mid-day distraction for the masses. So today we launch Eavesdrop — each Webisode captures moments of time in a single day at the Walker, from the glitz of an exhibition’s opening night to the behind-the-scenes work of our framing and installation technicians to whatever schemes the Walker’s Teen Arts Council are hatching.
This debut, Eavesdrop 01.17.08, begins with the overflow Target Free Thursday Night crowd (it was the final cost-free opportunity to catch Frida Kahlo) and moves on to the after-show party from The TEAM’s Particularly in the Heartland (part of Out There 20). In short order, Eavesdrop will become a daily feature, online by 11 am every Monday through Friday. Let me know your thoughts.
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