Combined Walker Blogs http://blogs.walkerart.org/ Here’s a fun game I came up with as an introduction to the upcoming Eero Saarinen exhibition. To play: Guess if each image shows a) something designed by Saarinen or b) something in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. A little bit of introductory information: Eero Saarinen, known as a key modernist designer and architect in the 20th century. He often collaborated with [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/06/eero-saarinen-disneyland/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/06/eero-saarinen-disneyland/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:56:30 +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 The Minnesota Independent has a video about the F30 Pedal Cloud, a bike powered by 11 people, part of The UnConvention: While the bike had made appearances at events from the May Day Parade to Pride, its inspiration is less… summery: Last winter, out on the ice of Medicine Lake, Forecast director Jack Becker encountered [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/05/video-f30-pedal-cloud-11-person/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/08/05/video-f30-pedal-cloud-11-person/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:12:10 +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 Today is "hump day" for the SDI. We worked to sustain energy through play, conversation, reflection, and sharing as we began to apply new concepts to the classroom and teaching. Wendy Friedmeyer, James Johansen, and Kim Robledo-Diga kept us on track. As we toured the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, we applied Design Thinking [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/30/summer-design-institute-day-3/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/30/summer-design-institute-day-3/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:08:07 +0000 We’re all about interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, corporal-disciplinary art at the Walker, and that ethos stretches to the individual programming departments. When we crafted our Year of Trisha, folks in our visual arts and performing arts departments, otherwise separated by off-white walls, colored chiffon curtains and preferences in footwear, joined flavors in a melange of dance and [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/30/ingenious-clever-marketing/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/30/ingenious-clever-marketing/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:19 +0000 Sandy Speicher from IDEO works with teachers on design as a process for learning. She states: “Design thinking is the way we approach the world when we imagine and create new solutions for the future.” “Build to think” and “Fail early to succeed sooner”- teachers make prototype models out of found materials to solve design [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/29/summer-design-institute-day-2/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/07/29/summer-design-institute-day-2/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:25:38 +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 Anna Marie Shogren and Eddie Oroyan’s work is so clearly made through their eyes. I feel like each of them cut a very very thin slice of each of their experiences in the world, put them on a slide and let me examine them under a microscope for 45 minutes. Sometimes they were [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/momentum-weekend-2/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/momentum-weekend-2/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:55:18 +0000 As a member of the arts community I am lucky to know, what I think, are some of the most talented and versatile artists in Minneapolis. One of these artists is my good pal Danny Sigelman. Mr. Sigelman is a jack of all trades. He is a musician, a painter, a DJ, an event organizer, [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/brown-rocket-dancin/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2008/07/24/brown-rocket-dancin/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:16:46 +0000 Two weeks after the foofarah (I can now cross that word off my “to use” list) stirred by The New Yorker’s Barack Obama cover, bloggers are now blogoplectic over a poster advertising Obama’s speech tonight in Berlin. One conservative gasket-blower has compared it to a poster of Adolph Hitler, though a blogger at Mother Jones [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/24/poster-worth-thousand-blogs/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/24/poster-worth-thousand-blogs/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:50:28 +0000 One of the slicker events The UnConvention is participating in is the Liberty Parade. The Liberty Parade is organized to be a counterpoint to the protests that are happening in the Twin Cities during the RNC: The central purpose of the Liberty Parade is to create a large scale parade through the heart of Minneapolis that [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/21/float-freedom-liberty-parade/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/21/float-freedom-liberty-parade/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:41:05 +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         rest in peace   Art Forum San Francisco Gate New York Times Walker Art Center Collections and Resources (portraits by Larry Keenan)     Permalink | 16 comments | Add to del.icio.us http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/08/bruce-conner-1933-2008/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/08/bruce-conner-1933-2008/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:01:56 +0000 · One of the biggest bits of film archive news I can remember hit this week. A print of the orginal version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, thought lost since 1927, has been found in Argentina. This is incredibly exciting. It’s apparent by the images that have been released that the print [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/03/shorts-38/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/03/shorts-38/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:38 +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 Judge and the General http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBL8R1icxCo Flow: For Love of Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyCHdM5h0y4 Interview with Peter Galison & Rob Moss, directors of Secrecy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hiK2vdlHM The Listening project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Bn7avbqRA Permalink | No comments yet | Add to del.icio.us http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/02/clips-trailers-cinema-urgency/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/07/02/clips-trailers-cinema-urgency/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:36:21 +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 Yesterday was the deadline for submitting sign designs to My Yard Our Message. We got a ton of signs over the last few days, putting us just shy of 300 signs total. We’re very happy with that number, and the quality of some of the submissions. This morning I turned the site off for a little [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/01/myom-open-voting/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/07/01/myom-open-voting/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:58:55 +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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Fig. 1: Insights 2008, designed by Ryan Nelson and Vance Wellenstein; Fig. 2: Insights 2007, designed by Jayme Yen; Fig. 3: Insights 2006, designed by Scott Ponik Fig. 4: Insights 2005, designed by Chad Kloepfer; Fig. 5: Insights 2005, designed by [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/05/flat-files-7-selected-design/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/06/05/flat-files-7-selected-design/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:46:01 +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 British artist Angus Fairhurst committed suicide on Saturday, March 29, 2008. He was 41 years old. This tragedy is a tremendous loss to the art world, and of course to those who knew him. As one of the “Young British Artists” who brought international attention and excitement to a much quieter London art scene in [...] http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/01/death-artist/ http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2008/04/01/death-artist/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:59:40 +0000