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In the run up to the premiere of the 2024 Choreographers' Evening, guest curator jess pretty reflects on their approach to this annual tradition of showcasing local dance. "the work of the evening is in the risk of being seen of vulnerability of choosing the encounter of facing truths of responding to the aliveness that only the present moment can create" Read on ?? https://lnkd.in/gjC-PAft

Today for Kara Walker's birthday, we're revisiting some early moments from the acclaimed artist's long history with us. Included here is a 1997 portrait of the artist with a monumental, 85-foot-long installation of cut-paper silhouettes commissioned by the Walker. In the same year, Walker became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship. A decade later, Walker returned to Minneapolis to present her first full-scale American museum survey, "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love," organized by the Walker. Photos courtesy of the Walker Art Center Archive.

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Minnesota-based playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski's "TRACES (After Sophie Calle)" is a participatory, site-specific performance that unfolds in real time across downtown Minneapolis. A new article on the Walker Reader delves into the through lines of the performance and the work of Sophie Calle on which it is based. Read on ?? https://lnkd.in/gVTUtY2V You can now spy on "TRACES"—view fragmented surveillance footage from select performances online through November 14 ?? https://lnkd.in/gBTxfVn9 Image: WaxFactory, "TRACES (after Sophie Calle)." Photo by Maria Baranova. Courtesy of the artist.

What does the soundtrack of a broken concrete utopia sound like? Gordon Chapman-Fox discusses creating music inspired by the haunting architecture of U.K. New Towns with Mattie Colquhoun on the Walker Reader. "Growing up in the tail end of the 1970s and into the 1980s, a synthesizer still sounds like the future to me. This is similar to a lot of the architecture in these New Towns." Read on ?? https://wlkr.art/3NFVMfp "Your Community Hub" from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan is available in vinyl at Idea House 3. Images: (1) Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, "Your Community Hub" (2024). Courtesy the artist. (2) Southgate Estate, Runcorn New Town, 1977.

"The Crying Jordan meme is a sign of the times; it demonstrates the increased power of (anonymous, decentralized) fan culture and a gradual erosion of the jocks vs. nerds hierarchy. But to what end?" Guest curators Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere discuss their fall cinema series at the Walker and the paradoxical nature of sports and fandom on the Walker Reader. Read on ?? https://wlkr.art/47TeadO Check out the series ?? https://wlkr.art/47SygVG

Premiering today, “Rant redux” is a rave-like performance set to a high-intensity sound score. Created by choreographer Ralph Lemon and multimedia artist Kevin Beasley, this moving image installation incorporates footage from a series of performances Lemon conducted called “Rant.” The footage is set to a sound score that features Lemon shouting texts by Fred Moten, Angela Davis, Kathy Acker, Saidiya Hartman, and himself. The exhibition runs in tandem with the premiere of “Tell it anyway, 2024” on October 4–5, and will be on display through October 13 in Perlman Gallery. Admission is free every Thursday, 5–9 pm.

That’s a wrap on Avant Garden 2024! We are grateful to all of the incredible partners and sponsors that made the event a success. Thank you to our lead sponsors: The William M. Lively Foundation and Pohlad Companies; Sotheby's, our auction partner; D'Amico Catering and Cardamom, our food partners; Dameun Strange, A-Trak, Kwey and DJ McShellen for keeping us dancing all night; Andrew Bogard, campaign designer; Ruby Stinson, event designer, and so many more! See photos: https://lnkd.in/gYTdH-g7

"When 'The Large Blue Horses' went on display, it was either a shock to museum visitors or refreshing to see this 20th-century masterwork at the top of the stairs." —Jill Vuchetich, Head of Archives & Library Read more about the history of Franz Marc's "The Large Blue Horses," now on view in our exhibition "This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection." ?? https://wlkr.art/3ZwShil

After almost 10 years, Franz Marc's "The Large Blue Horses" is on view again! Acquired in 1942, the piece quickly became a visitor favorite and is considered one of the founding artworks of the Walker's collection. Experience this beloved piece in the exhibition "This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection." ??: Franz Marc, "Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses)" (1911).