2009 British Television Advertising Awards
Tickets Now on Sale! Brimming with creativity, these sly, sexy, hilarious, and thought-provoking British spots have been a Walker highlight for 21 years. The program this year includes dancing marionettes, monkeys, and nudists as well as Snoop Dogg, Rob Lowe, and Anjelica Huston hawking products to UK audiences. more >> | tickets >>
Local-to-Global Jewelry Artist Mart
Saturday, November 14Find unique gifts to suit unique tastes when more than a dozen international, national, and local jewelry artists and designers show their wares at the Walker.
mnartists.org
ARTmn 2009Speaking to the desire for the handmade in a world awash in technology, The Precious Object brings together 14 artists from locales throughout Minnesota in the inaugural exhibition of mnartists.org's ARTmn series. At the Minneapolis Central Library. more >>
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One of contemporary art's most innovative figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of numerous artistic developments since the 1960s. This retrospective, dubbed "a lively and revelatory exhibition" by Art in America, is the first in the United States to showcase Graham's entire body of work. |
Four Score: Must-See Events
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Sneak Preview:
Life During Wartime
Film: When it is easier to forget, why struggle with forgiveness? Writer/director Todd Solondz ( Welcome to the Dollhouse, Palindromes) explores this question in the part sequel/part variation on his acclaimed film Happiness. October 28 more >> | tickets >>
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Student Open House
School of Rock: Bang your head and throw up the horns during this one-night celebration of rock and roll and art presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC). Watch a film, screenprint a t-shirt, join a mixtape exchange, and rock out to DJs from Radio K. Free! October 29 more >>
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Free First Saturday
Rock Out!: Families go punk during a day filled with live music and activities inspired by the exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond. Learn more about this intriguing artist through a series of activities related to architecture, rock and roll, and the passage of time. November 7 more >>
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The People's Republic of Cinema
Film Series: Marking the 60th anniversary of "New China," this timely 14-film series tracks the decades of political tumult and massive cultural and economic change that followed 1949's Communist revolution. November 4 - 23 more >> | tickets >>
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Other Events
Opening-Day Talk: Dan Graham
Artist Talk
October 31, 2 pm, FREE
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Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate
Family Program
November 10, 10 am - 2 pm
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Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
Exhibition
Now on view
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Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
Exhibition
Now on view
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Dig Deeper
 Your 10-minute guide to Dan Graham at the Walker
Galleries 4, 5, and 6 are getting prepped for the arrival of work from Dan Graham: Beyond, which closed on October 11 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Los Angeles Times called this retrospective "witty, surprising, smart and engaging" (the show originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art there), and Art in America noted that it "perhaps says as much about popular culture of the last 40 years as about Graham himself."
Peter Eleey, who is organizing the Walker's presentation of this show, has noted a pretty consistent binary quality that runs through Graham's otherwise incredibly diverse body of work: It's in the low/high, inside/outside take on the ways in which Graham views culture, and in the ways viewers see Graham's work (and often in how the work itself is configured); in the artist's ideas about both the production and the consumption of culture; and in the various combinations of transparency and reflection that form the crux of many of his projects.
This oppositional way of reading his work, coupled with its lack of a signature "style," can combine to make Graham's art seem elusive. But once you tap into the frequency on which he's operating, the artist's vision really does cohere. In fact, that consistent vision, coupled with a restless curiosity--thus the "beyond" of the exhibition title--is what led the Walker to follow Graham's career and collect his work for decades, acquiring its first piece by the artist in 1978. read full article >>
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