From the Archives: Claes Oldenburg’s Awakening
Martin Friedman draws on years of conversations with Claes Oldenburg to reflect on the artist's abiding preoccupation with the mouse.
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Three Museums Acquire Seven Artworks through Expo Chicago’s Northern Trust Purchase Prize
The three institutions are the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Portland Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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Amanda Hunt, Star Hire at L.A.’s Lucas Museum, Departs for Walker Art Center
She will be head of public engagement, learning, and impact at the Minneapolis museum.
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Expo Chicago Announces Expansion of Museum Purchase Prize
Curators from the Portland Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Walker Art Center will select an artwork to enter their collections at the art fair.
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Are Museums’ Young Patron Groups Meeting Calls for Diversity?
Circles geared toward patrons in their 20s and 30s have traditionally groomed the next generation of American museum trustees.
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Seena Hodges Becomes First African American to Serve as President of Walker Art Center’s Board
The trustees also elected four other women to serve as board officers.
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Objects at Rest: “The Paradox of Stillness” at the Walker Art Center
How does performance fit into the museum? A thematic exhibition highlights points of influence and ambiguity among supposedly still and time-based media.
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Long Pushed to the Margins, Pacita Abad’s Art About the Immigrant Experience Gets Global Recognition
The Walker Art Center is preparing her first U.S. retrospective for 2023.
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First U.S. Jannis Kounellis Survey in 35 Years to Open at Walker Art Center in 2022
The giant of postwar European art has rarely been showcased in such a way in the U.S.
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Walker Art Center Staff Reorganization Results in End of Museum’s Closely Followed Digital Magazine
Five positions were eliminated in the restructuring, and nine were created.
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