Tag Archives: Alec Soth

The Walker Curates the News: 12.07.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 7, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 12.07.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 7, 2015

Among Foreign Policy’s 100 Global Thinkers are 21 artists “bound by the belief that art serves a higher purpose,” including Cuban artists Tania Bruguera and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, playwright Suzan-Lori …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The “unselfie,” writes the New York Times’s Sam Anderson on Alec Soth’s Instagram series of self-portraits obscured by snow, leaves, pixels, and the like, “documents and annihilates. What we most …

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: 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 …