Walker Art Center

Artist-Designed Mini-Golf is now open! Tonight (5/23) through...

iteeth — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:11:53 -0400

Artist-Designed Mini-Golf is now open! Tonight (5/23) through Sept. 8.

installator: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo),...

iteeth — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:10:07 -0400

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo), 1991. Installation process. Image courtesy of the Williams College Museum of Art; photo by Roman Iwasiwk (curatedobject.us)

installator: Richard Prince: Spiritual America at Walker Art...

iteeth — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:14:09 -0400

installator:

Richard Prince: Spiritual America at Walker Art Center. Installation photo by Cameron Wittig (2008)

Minnesota is the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage! Gov....

iteeth — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:35:20 -0400

Minnesota is the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage! Gov. Mark Dayton signs the bill into law today, with it taking effect in August. Photo by Terry Gydesen for MinnPost.com.

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iteeth — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:43:37 -0400

Such a fascinating project. Here’s what Paul Chan had to...

iteeth — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:31:03 -0400

Such a fascinating project. Here’s what Paul Chan had to tell us about it recently.

“Meet the Schoenherrs: This Woodbury, Minn., family has...

iteeth — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:47:00 -0400

“Meet the Schoenherrs: This Woodbury, Minn., family has been selected as hosts for Fritz Haeg’s 15th and final Edible Estate, a project that transforms suburban front lawns into abundant organic vegetable gardens. Challenging the symbolism of the display yard, Edible Estates “questions the essence of what the American Dream is,” says Haeg. “Ultimately, the project is really way beyond lawn and way beyond food and gardens and the environment. It penetrates to the core of ‘How do you want to live?’”

Arthur Tress, Young Security Guard, Hoboken, 1971

iteeth — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:45:00 -0400

Arthur Tress, Young Security Guard, Hoboken, 1971

new-aesthetic: The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest...

iteeth — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:46:09 -0400

new-aesthetic:

The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest on Twitter thanks to this blog post, appears to have first been spotted in this blog post in August 2009. But there are no attributions. The latest reports pin it to Street View - not mentioned in the original posting - and it certainly appears to be Street View image, but, lacking coordinates, the halfcat seems destined to be a mystery forever, one of any number of mythical beings, lost in the Clouds.

More interesting than the halfcat’s strangeness, perhaps, is its unknowability. Someone saw the halfcat, snapped it, but the route back is lost. The databases contain such multitudes of new myths.

metamuseum: Buttons, 1990–1992 Three small buttons for visitors...

iteeth — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:46:32 -0400

metamuseum:

Buttons, 1990–1992

Three small buttons for visitors created by the Walker Art Center design department to coincide with special exhibitions

Left to right: John Baldessari (1991), featuring his famous dictate, “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”; Claes Oldenburg: In the Studio (1992); and Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism 1924–1932 (1990)

Gear up for barbecue season! George Maciunas’ Stomach...

iteeth — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:16:04 -0400

Gear up for barbecue season! George Maciunas’ Stomach Anatomy Apron (1967/1973)

A poster for Flux Vehicle Day, May 19, 1973, featuring George...

iteeth — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:10:00 -0400

A poster for Flux Vehicle Day, May 19, 1973, featuring George Maciunas’ design for the Multicycle, a “multi-tandem-bike.”

This month, Walker graphic designer Dante Carlos opens his first...

iteeth — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:21:42 -0400

This month, Walker graphic designer Dante Carlos opens his first UK show. Art & Leisure and Art & Leisure, opening May 23 at the London Centre for Book Arts, centers on an editioned book, produced by LCBA, that will be displayed in the space:

Carlos uses the form and function of a calendar and creates a casual polemic and a reorganization of days. A calendar consisting only of Saturdays and Sundays, Art & Leisure… is a book that becomes an exhibition, a proposition, a utopia, and a joke. In a social climate where the simple act of taking time ‘off the clock’ and doing something without intrinsic market—but human—value becomes something unintentionally quixotic, Art & Leisure… re-imagines our relationship to time, labour and art practices.

jennilee: Lynn Hershman - Untitled 1978-94 (via Walker Art...

iteeth — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:39:52 -0400

jennilee:

Lynn Hershman - Untitled 1978-94 (via Walker Art Center Collection Favorites)

momalibrary: Claes Oldenburg’s invitation/business card for The...

iteeth — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:30:33 -0400

momalibrary:

Claes Oldenburg’s invitation/business card for The Store (1961).

hragv: Going meta

iteeth — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:29:22 -0400

hragv:

Going meta

Online image culture started here: more than 20 years ago, this...

iteeth — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:16:00 -0400

Online image culture started here: more than 20 years ago, this poorly photoshopped image—“a homemade promotional shot for Les Horribles Cernettes, a comedy band based at the CERN laboratory near Geneva”—became the first photo uploaded to the Internet. (Via Bruce Sterling).

richardmccoy: Love this art crate stencil: don’t leave art...

iteeth — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:41:12 -0400

richardmccoy:

Love this art crate stencil: don’t leave art crate exposed to the sun. #museums (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

“There’s always been the argument: Where did punk rock start?...

iteeth — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:12:00 -0400

“There’s always been the argument: Where did punk rock start? Who cares? It’s not where did it start, it’s why did it start? —Bob Mould, 1981

Bob Mould returns to the city where Hüsker Dü began for Rock the Garden 2013. To mark the occasion, we asked journalist (and punk drummer) Jeff Severns Guntzel to dig into the local archives for a look at Mould’s musical, political, and personal roots.

Photos (top to bottom): Hüsker Dü in 1981 or ‘82 (photo: Steve Hengstler, special thanks to Annie Hengstler); printing plate for Hüsker Dü and the band’s early ’80s label, Reflex Records (photo: Minnesota Historical Society); Mould backstage at Maverick’s in Boston during Hüsker Dü’s first East Coast trip, 1983 (photo: Kathy Campbell).

RIP Roger Ebert. Pictured: Werner Herzog and Roger Ebert at the...

iteeth — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:53:43 -0400

RIP Roger Ebert.

Pictured: Werner Herzog and Roger Ebert at the Walker Art Center, April 1999 (when Herzog wrote his famed “Minnesota Declaration”)