Art
The outcry over Sam Durant's sculpture at the Walker Art Center has provoked reflections on past memorials for the US–Dakota War, and how Dakota Nation voices continue to be ignored.
Opinion
In responding to the "Scaffold" controversy in Minneapolis, some art world onlookers have painted the white male artist as the victim.
In Brief
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
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
After protests from the local Dakota nation, Sam Durant’s "Scaffold" will be taken apart starting tomorrow.
News
Sam Durant's outdoor installation "Scaffold" references the US Army's mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota in 1862.
Art
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
MINNEAPOLIS — Nostalgia for the Minneapolis music scene of the 1980s has been at somewhat of a fever pitch of late.
Art
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
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
MINNEAPOLIS — With just four shapes made out of crude line drawings, Andrea Büttner captures the essence of shame.
Art
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.