Opinion
Sam Durant Doesn't Need Defending
In responding to the "Scaffold" controversy in Minneapolis, some art world onlookers have painted the white male artist as the victim.
Walker Art Center
In Brief
Dakota Nation Suspends Burning of Wood from Controversial Minneapolis Sculpture
Sam Durant's sculpture has been dismantled, but its materials await their fate while members of the Dakota Nation seek more input regarding the best way to dispose of them.
News
After a Dakota Ceremony, Dismantling of Controversial Sculpture Begins in Minneapolis
On Friday, Dakota elders led a ceremony that included a blessing for construction workers who then started to take apart Sam Durant's controversial installation "Scaffold."
News
Controversial Sculpture in Minneapolis Will Be Dismantled and Ceremonially Burned
After protests from the local Dakota nation, Sam Durant’s "Scaffold" will be taken apart starting tomorrow.
News
After Protests from Native American Community, Walker Art Center Will Remove Public Sculpture
Sam Durant's outdoor installation "Scaffold" references the US Army's mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota in 1862.
Art
Basking in the Legacy of Merce Cunningham at His Retrospective
Unexpectedly, as I began to watch the public performances of Merce Cunningham's choreography in conjunction with the exhibition, his work started to grow on me.
Art
The Salvaged Belongings of a 1980s Punk Drummer
MINNEAPOLIS — Nostalgia for the Minneapolis music scene of the 1980s has been at somewhat of a fever pitch of late.
Art
Slowly Dancing to an Exhibition About Love
MINNEAPOLIS — A kind of dance happens as you walk through Lee Kit’s exhibition at the Walker Art Center, appropriately titled Hold your breath, dance slowly.
Announcement
Now Streaming: A New Short Film by Leslie Thornton, Inspired by Bruce Conner
This chilling exploration of the purpose and repurposing of memory during wartime draws on oral accounts of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, and responds to artist Bruce Conner’s iconic film of the 1946 Bikini Atoll nuclear test, "CROSSROADS" (1976). [http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzY
Art
From Challenging Kant to Elevating Moss, an Artist Upends Hierarchies
MINNEAPOLIS — With just four shapes made out of crude line drawings, Andrea Büttner captures the essence of shame.
Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States
We love NYC and LA and all the art they have to offer, but we know they're only two towns of many across the country mounting great exhibitions large and small.
Art
When the Whole World Spoke Pop
MINNEAPOLIS — We do not know what we do not know. That is precisely what the Walker Art Center’s exhibition International Pop makes clear — how much, heretofore, we did not know about the scope and practice of Pop art.