Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is proud to announce its record-breaking success with the three-month Frida Kahlo exhibition, which closed on September 28, 2008. Attendance during the show was the museum's highest ever, totaling 412,244an average of 4,530 visitors per day. The record was previously held by the 2003 Marc Chagall
Captain Capitalism (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
I've always suspected the communist agents of the 1960's are grinning ear to ear with their success . #22 and #23 can more or less be summed up as "The Walker Art Center."
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Sort by date with duplicates included. Zimbabwe has a deal but is the Old Crocodile waiting to bite back. Evacuated its Houston facilities Thursday in response to an order by authorities as Hurricane Ike edged closer to the area, a company Brandt mike said. By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON Reuters Lehman Brothers Holdings [...]
33 Names of Grace (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
and it wasn't the Walker . Kelly and I had some conversation about whether to go to Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra at the Walker Art Center or the Nordic Roots Festival at the Cedar Cultural Center. We decided on progressive nordic folk music instead of the nostaligic 60s jazz event. Actually, I just insisted. I've wanted to get to the Nordic Roots Festivals for years (I always seem to be doing...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
NEW YORK.- Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie (b. 1961) has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
I first encountered filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek's work in Aspen Magazine. His 1964 collaboration with Robert Morris, Site, combined dance/performance, art, and film. Performers create a physical, 3-D approximation of camera wipes and reveals using large black and white panels....
Off Center (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Maybe you’re an artist, or maybe you just consider yourself artistically inclined - in either case, there’s a plum opportunity for you to show your stuff and support the arts at the same time. Vote Yes Minnesota is accepting submissions for one more week in its Poster Design Contest (and a Walker Art Center membership [...]
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
This weekend, the Walker Art Center & the Minneapolis Institute of Arts co-host a serious Eero Saarinen retrospective via the National. Saarinen's work will come to life from infamous chair to Arch vi
Culture-buzz (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Last week, the Republican National Convention brought all its glitter and glam to Minneapolis/St. Paul. Minnesotans have not historically been the most consistent voters in terms of senators and governors (case in point: they are capable of electing Wellstone on the left, Palenti on the right, Coleman on the W. Bush, Ventura on the WWF, and I believe Franken on the SNL). However, they have not voted...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
MINNEAPOLIS.- Darsie Alexander, Senior Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), has been named Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center effective November 10. She succeeds Philippe Vergne who left the museum in August to become director of New York's Dia Art Foundation. As the Walker's Chief Curator, Alexander will work with the
Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis chose the wrong time to announce their new chief curator, the Baltimore Museum of Art contemporary art head, Darsie Alexander. Everyone is now too busy reporting another story, “Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. [...]
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Tomorrow will be the one-year anniversary of the Walker Art Center hire of then-Hirshhorn director Olga Viso. The Hirshhorn still has not found a successor.
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Don't miss the Walker Art Center's UnConvention. I wrote about this for Smithsonian magazine last year, and now there are pictures (and more): Trenton Doyle Hancock designs for Ballet Austin. Two years ago Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, AK, pop. 5,469. Take a look . Doesn't Wasilla look like '70s-era Stephen Shore? The NY Sun's Kate Taylor reports that Richard Armstrong is close to being named...
what if? (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
By 6:40AM, I was on the road. The Center of the American Experiment scheduled an informative and fascinating breakfast featuring Powerline Blog's John Hinderacker and author and speechwriter David Frum. While ever capable CAE president Mitch Perlstein moderated, John and...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
NEWPORT BEACH.- The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) has announced that Karen Moss, the Museum's curator of collections and director of public programs, has been named deputy director for exhibitions and programs. Moss will oversee the museum's curatorial and education departments. The Museum has also appointed Sarah Bancroft as curator. Bancroft comes to OCMA
