The Walker Curates the News

Holographic activists marched through the streets of Madrid recently in protest of a new law aimed at preventing Spanish citizens from demonstrating against Congress. “Our protest with holograms is ironic,” …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

In a recent interview, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei reflects on life in Beijing, motherhood, censorship, and the trends that she has observed in the art created by new Chinese …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

A “messy, wild, irreverent joy,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s traveling retrospective at the Studio Museum Harlem, Skin and Bones, pulls viewers into the artist’s surreal imagination and traces the evolution of his …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 30, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 30, 2015

The US Postal Service released five “forever” stamps commemorating the late self-taught artist Martín Ramírez last week. “Ramírez counts as a highly unusual choice not only because he was Mexican-American …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.23.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 23, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.23.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 23, 2015

When poet Kenneth Goldsmith read a modified version of Michael Brown’s autopsy report as poetry at a Brown University conference, it left many in the audience stunned and sparked a …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.16.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 16, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.16.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 16, 2015

Nonprojections for New Lovers, the new Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, showcases work by artist and experimental publisher, Paul Chan. The artist’s “nonprojections” expand the concept of the moving image as …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 9, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 9, 2015

For her contribution to New York City’s first major AIDS memorial, Jenny Holzer will share 8,992 words of Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Song of Myself” on spiralling paving stones in …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.02.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 2, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.02.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 2, 2015

The art world has reacted with outrage at the destruction of ancient Assyrian sculptures by ISIS. “This mindless attack on great art, on history, and on human understanding constitutes a tragic …

The Walker Curates the News: 02.24.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 24, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 02.24.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 24, 2015

“Serious patrons of the arts” can at last get a chance to visit James Turrell’s Roden Crater, the “naked eye observatory” the artist began working on in Arizona 38 years …

The Walker Curates the News: 02.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 9, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 02.09.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 9, 2015

A visit to the Guggenheim’s On Kawara survey prompts Ben Davis to consider how ahead of his time the conceptual artist was: “He was making art about the ‘quantified self’—the …

The Walker Curates the News: 02.02.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 2, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 02.02.15

by Walker Art Center | Feb 2, 2015

After decades of photographing dolls, Laurie Simmons is now shooting real people—only with dollish eyes painted on their eyelids. “This interruption,” she acknowledges, “is so subtle people miss it at …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.26.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 26, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 01.26.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 26, 2015

Antwerp-born painter Luc Tuymans has been convicted of copyright infringment for using photojournalist Katrijn Van Giel’s photo of rightwing Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker as the basis for a painting. Van Giel …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 19, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 01.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 19, 2015

“Even for the Oscars—even for the Oscars—this is a really, really lot of white people,” writes NPR’s Linda Holmes of the newest slate of nominees (dubbed the “whitest Oscars since 1998“). …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 01.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 12, 2015

While others at a recent New York rally chanted “Je suis Charlie,” Maus creator Art Spiegelman says he shouted, “Cartoonist lives matter!” Discussing the Charlie Hebdo tragedy and the power …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 5, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 01.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Jan 5, 2015

Artist Tania Bruguera was repeatedly detained by authorities in Havana last week. The Cuban national was planning a work, promoted as #YoTambienExijo (I Also Demand), in Revolution Square in which anyone could speak into an …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.29.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 29, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.29.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 29, 2014

From Haiti’s Ghetto Biennale to Minnesota’s Art Shanty Projects, a floating school in Lagos to Pittsburgh’s Conflict Kitchen, 32 global projects have been shortlisted for the 2015 International Award for …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 22, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 22, 2014

Like Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo, artist Renzo Martens wants to build an “extravagant and beautiful” arts center in the jungle, and next month he’ll begin to realize his five-year plan: …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.15.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 15, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.15.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 15, 2014

“Is a museum a database?” As a symbolic representation of our society, “the museum has become contingent on a metabolism that is eager to mimic the logic of the database, …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 8, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 8, 2014

Do #blacklivesmatter to the art world? Not when it really counts, writes an African American woman working in arts PR: “It’s not like my colleagues don’t know how to talk …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.01.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 1, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.01.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 1, 2014

While trying to photograph the 1,000+ CCTV cameras in London’s congestion zone this October, James Bridle found himself under citizen’s arrest. Bridle hopes to complete his project with a Flickr …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.24.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 24, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 11.24.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 24, 2014

An artist who has “figured out a way to make the perils of our time accessible,” Paul Chan has won the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize. Working in video, 2D and …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.17.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 17, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 11.17.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 17, 2014

Changing realities of the modern family have increased the need for a serious dialogue, as evidenced by the reactions to Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family. Commissioned by Ikon Gallery, …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.10.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 10, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 11.10.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 10, 2014

Created as a tool to foster understanding, Pittsburgh’s Conflict Kitchen, which serves cuisine from countries with which the US is in conflict, has shut down after receiving death threats over …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.03.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 3, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 11.03.14

by Walker Art Center | Nov 3, 2014

The Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers is calling for the ouster of Museo Reina Sofía director Manuel Borja-Villel over a show it deems “anti-Catholic.” On view through February 9, 2015, …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.27.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 27, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 10.27.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 27, 2014

Finally embraced by museums that long considered him a pariah for his critiques of institutional power, Hans Haacke’s critical eye remains unchanged: his new exhibition at Paula Cooper includes a …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.20.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 20, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 10.20.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 20, 2014

“My only commitment—my only doctrine—is to not let the dust settle,” says director/artist Steve McQueen, a sentiment that’s reinforced by his new video and sculptural works, which address racism and …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.13.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 13, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 10.13.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 13, 2014

“It’s important to give the ones who seem to be invisible the possibility to be visible, to be heard,” says artist Krzysztof Wodiczko while talking about his new Homeless Projection. …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.06.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 6, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 10.06.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 6, 2014

Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room is “one of the headiest and most beautiful things I’ve seen in I don’t know how long,” writes Claudia La Rocco in Artforum. Struggling to describe the work, she …

The Walker Curates the News: 09.29.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 29, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 09.29.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 29, 2014

“I have a problem with the idea that contemporary art can only be presented in a white box.”

The Walker Curates the News: 09.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 22, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 09.22.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 22, 2014

From Kraftwerk’s “post human” sounds to Ai Weiwei’s new Lego portraits, the Walker rounds up the latest in contemporary art news.

The Walker Curates the News 09.16.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 16, 2014

The Walker Curates the News 09.16.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 16, 2014

Artists Sam Durant, Anselm Kiefer, Nick Cave, Cindy Sherman, and more in this week’s roundup from the Walker.

The Walker Curates the News: 09.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 8, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 09.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 8, 2014

The latest in contemporary art news as told by the Walker Art Center.

The Walker Curates the News: 09.01.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 2, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 09.01.14

by Walker Art Center | Sep 2, 2014

“Do nests for humans really reduce our so-called footprint? Do we need woven wood to entice us to the forest?” Dushko Petrovich looks at the dark side of “natural architecture” …

The Walker Curates the News: 08.25.14

by Walker Art Center | Aug 25, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 08.25.14

by Walker Art Center | Aug 25, 2014

Despite friction between artist and director and budgetary bumps that stalled production, Jason Wishnow’s short sci-fi film The Sandstorm is expected to premiere soon. In his acting debut, Ai Weiwei will play a tuk …