http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts Just another Walker Blogs weblog Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:42:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Walker’s next collection catalogue will be free for the whole world. Getty has sponsored nine art museums[i] to lead the pilot stage of what has been termed the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (you’ll hear it referred to around here as OSCI). Through innovative web-based architectures, each awarded institution will present ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/11/13/walkergetty/ [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignleft" width="450" caption="Graham (left) inside "Public Space/Two Audiences" (1976)"][/caption] Dan Graham and his retrospective got robbed of the "Artist of the Year" and "Solo Show of the Year" awards at last night's First Annual Art Awards, a glitzy and somewhat tongue-in-cheek affair at the Guggenheim in New York. Here ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/10/30/dan-graham-beyond-previews-show-opens-tomorrow/ Reports on the burning of Hélio Oiticica’s work have been somewhat exaggerated: The artist's work is not a quite a near-total loss. Stories a couple of days ago cited that “90%” of the work made by Oiticica, a major figure of the Brazilian avante garde in the late 1960s and ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/10/20/bits-pieces-2/ [caption id="attachment_729" align="alignleft" width="334" caption="Artist's portrait by Cameron Wittig"][/caption] Galleries 4, 5, and 6 are getting prepped for the arrival of work from Dan Graham: Beyond, which closed on Sunday at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Los Angeles Times called this retrospective “witty, surprising, smart ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/10/13/your-10-minute-guide-to-dan-graham-at-the-walker/ [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignnone" width="411" caption="Two untitled portraits from a series by Melba Price appear on a new Walker postcard."][/caption] We recently featured the Walker’s Collectors’ Council Acquisitions Fund (CCAF) in the July/August issue of WALKER magazine. The CCAF was established in 2006 to create a way for members to participate in ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/10/06/going-postal/ For the last three weeks, a small group of individuals with a variety of expertise have been meeting twice or more weekly to participate in an experimental project with artist-in-residence, Haegue Yang. Entitled Shared Discovery of What We Have and Know Already Yang’s project involves a series of seminar workshops ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/10/02/haegue-yang-is-here/ [caption id="attachment_650" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Art Awards' version of Oscar (photo by Thomas Mueller)"][/caption]Just in time for its last few days, Waker curator Peter Eleey's exhibition The Quick and the Dead has been nominated as "Group Show of the Year" as part of the First Annual Art Awards, to ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/09/25/the-quick-and-the-dead-nominated-for-a-new-and-glamorous-art-award/ [caption id="attachment_627" align="alignleft" width="450" caption="Elizabeth Carpenter and Darsie Alexander planning the collection exhibitions. Photo: Cameron Wittig"][/caption] Darsie Alexander’s office is a mess. The walls are plastered with hundreds of photocopied images, from Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies to Beuys’ Felt Suit to a giant photograph of a boxing match by Andreas Gursky. Punctuating ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/08/29/coming-attractions/ Yes, this week everyone's talking about 1969 and some sort of summer music jamboree, but we're going to bump ahead a couple of years, into the next decade: "The paint on the walls was barely dry when Robert Irwin was invited to conceive a piece that would 'challenge' the Walker’s new ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/08/14/robert-irwins-walker-installation-were-you-there-in-71/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="450" caption="Joanna Scavone performing "Body as a Sphere""][/caption] This seems to be the summer of Bruce Nauman, at least at the the Venice Biennale, where he won the Golden Lion, and to some extent here at the Walker, where his work in The Quick and the Dead is ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2009/08/07/inside-bruce-naumans-body-as-a-sphere-walker-performers-tell-all/