April tours at the Walker Art Center offer patrons the chance to see up close ongoing exhibitions, including Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions (through June 17), which addresses the means by which artists today are exploring notions of time, place, and narrative through the intimacy of paper, and highlights works acquired by the Walker within the last 10 years.
Many pieces even have never before been exhibited; Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (through May 13), the artist's first full-scale American museum survey, featuring her signature cut-paper silhouettes, film animations, and works on paper; and Body Politics: Figurative Prints and Drawings from Schiele to de Kooning (through July 15), featuring works from public and private collections that explore the expressive potential of the human figure in images taken from the first half of the 20th century.
Also in April, Conversations Between Collections: Kara Walker in Context is a two-part tour which features select pieces from the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) and the Walker, which are used to establish a context for Kara Walker's complex work (Part 1: April 5, 6 pm, at the MIA; Part 2: April 13, 6 pm, Walker Art Center). On Saturday, April 7, as part of the Walker's Free First Saturday, patrons can take part in a gallery crawl to see how artists have given new meaning to everyday objects. Also offered in April are Spotlight Gallery Talks led by Walker curators and tour guides highlighting selected artworks or artists in the galleries.
Gallery admission is $8 adults; $6 seniors (65+), $5 student/teen (with ID), and free to Walker members and children 12 and under. Admission is free with a ticket to a same-day Walker event, $4 with a ticket stub up to six days after an event. Gallery admission is free to all every Thursday evening from 5-9 pm and on the first Saturday of each month. -- www.walkerart.org
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