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Momentum 2008 paul herwig and jennifer ilse of Off-Leash Area www.offleasharea.org Chris Schlichting We really liked Chris’s presence on stage: likeable, self deprecating, not ironic, just simply hangin’ around with the dancers - but connecting, too. We also liked the music and the pink costume and scenic elements. Really fantastic movers, super skilled, very committed performances, of course with [...]

Chris Schlicting’s love things made me ask so many questions throughout its entirety: questions that amused, alarmed and delighted me the entire time. I wondered who these people were to me, to each other, to their world. And the answers came and kept coming. Chris deftly created a world of gesture, rhythm, [...]

Momentum: New Dance Worksopens tonight and runs for two weekends. Here are some behind-the-scenes Q&As from each of the artists to give you a sneak peek on these brand new works. What will you ask them after the show? Anna Marie Shogren Are there any explicit / direct / literal moments in your work? Anna: Nastalie does all [...]

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I recently stumbled upon this amazing Flick’r set of archival photography from the Library of Congress and felt compelled to share … it’s a nice change from the knee-deep waters of riff-raff I typically find myself wading through. Outside of the aesthetic beauty, images are also meticulously captioned and the collection frequently updated. You can [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GadXJLcJ0 Sights, sounds and, if you press your nose really close to the screen, smells from the opening night of the Walker’s Summer Music & Movies series, with music from The Alarmists. The series continues every Monday, in Loring Park, through August 18. Permalink | No comments yet | Add to del.icio.us

Last month, Michael Stipe passed through the Walker a few hours before R.E.M.’s concert at the Xcel Energy Center. Now, R.E.M. is introducing a value-added offering — a museum ticket with every purchase of a concert ticket. Coincidence? We think not. The New York Times reports that those attending R.E.M.’s performance Tuesday in Dresden, Germany — [...]

The Walker’s support of local artists is unassailable when it comes to contemporary dance. Every Thanksgiving weekend, our Choreographers Evening presents about a dozen young and emerging dancemakers — many making their first appearances at the Walker. This has gone on for more than 30 years, and the Walker can cover an entire [...]

The Walker Art Center is seeking choreographers to be presented in the 36th Annual Choreographers' Evening. Auditions will be held at the Walker's McGuire Theater, 1750 Hennepin Avenue on Thursday, August 21, from 4-9 pm, Friday, August 22, from 2-7 pm, and Saturday, August 23, from 11 am- 4 pm. You must call to reserve an [...]

One lesson I’ve learned in my short time at the Walker is there’s no such thing as failure. Artists explore. They experiment. They take risks. They take paths best (and often only) left to art history PhDs to decipher, let alone interpret. Artists don’t fail. Same goes for programmers, curators and designers. That’s why [...]

As someone who’s mildly interested in new media art, I’ve always felt like I’ve been watching from afar as cool work is created and tinkered with, usually in Europe, New York, or the Bay Area. Since the demise of New Media Initiatives as a curatorial department in the Walker, the Twin Cities has seemed lacking [...]

        rest in peace   Art Forum San Francisco Gate New York Times Walker Art Center Collections and Resources (portraits by Larry Keenan)     Permalink | 16 comments | Add to del.icio.us

· One of the biggest bits of film archive news I can remember hit this week. A print of the orginal version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, thought lost since 1927, has been found in Argentina. This is incredibly exciting. It’s apparent by the images that have been released that the print [...]

There isn’t a decent web developer alive that doesn’t harbor a deep-seated hatred for Internet Explorer. For years we have dreamed about the day when we could cast off the shackles of developing for the users who are struck with a browser that predates web 2.0. We developers don’t know anyone who still uses IE6; [...]

War, energy, humanitarian intervention, public education, women’s reproductive rights, the death penalty … somewhere on the long list of policy positions among the presidential candidates is the arts. Or at least for one of them. Americans for the Arts asked the presidential candidates to provide their positions on the arts and culture in America. Barack Obama [...]

The Judge and the General http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBL8R1icxCo Flow: For Love of Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyCHdM5h0y4 Interview with Peter Galison & Rob Moss, directors of Secrecy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hiK2vdlHM The Listening project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Bn7avbqRA Permalink | No comments yet | Add to del.icio.us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eHlW2AQgs Without a vehicle like “American Idol” to discover the next great voice-over talent, programmers at the Walker turned to their own colleagues to pluck the voice for upcoming radio spots to promote the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Ocean. Here’s a glimpse from the casting couch at Wednesday’s auditions. Permalink | No comments yet | Add [...]

The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., calls Eero Saarinen “the least-known famous architect of the 20th Century.” This illuminating, illustrated primer at Slate does something to change that. So does Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, which moves at summer’s end from the National to Minneapolis, where the Walker and Minneapolis Institute of Art are [...]

Yesterday was the deadline for submitting sign designs to My Yard Our Message. We got a ton of signs over the last few days, putting us just shy of 300 signs total. We’re very happy with that number, and the quality of some of the submissions. This morning I turned the site off for a little [...]

There are only a few more days to create and submit signs for My Yard Our Message. Since the project started in May, we’ve gotten over 200 submissions, but there is plenty of room for more. It’s easy to make a sign, we’ve got templates and all you have to do is tell us a [...]