October tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Brave New Worlds (opening October 4), a groundbreaking show about art's responsibilities in times of adversity.
For a more intimate look at the Brave New Worlds exhibition, the Walker presents special artist-led tours with Armando Andrade Tudela, Mark Bradford, and Cao Fei on Friday, October 5, 2:30–4 pm, focusing on their working processes, motivations, and areas where their aesthetic interests overlap. Tours are also offered for Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need (through November 18), a new multichannel video installation that weaves a nuanced story about evolution, class, wealth and poverty, and the inequalities in our global economy through a series of immersive image and sound environments; and of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the Walker building, and ongoing collection exhibitions.
On Saturday, October 6, as part of the Walker's Free First Saturday, patrons can take part in a gallery crawl through the Brave New Worlds galleries. Also offered in October are Spotlight Gallery Talks led by Walker curators and tour guides highlighting selected artworks or artists in the galleries.
Gallery admission is $10 adults; $8 seniors (65+), $6 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.
Three Brave New Worlds artists guide visitors through the exhibition and discuss their artistic processes, the motivations behind their work, and the areas where their aesthetic interests overlap. Armando Andrade Tudela creates work that focuses on aspects of modernity and contemporary culture in his native Peru as well as modernism's attempt to erase the historical and cultural. Mark Bradford is a self-described "beauty operator" whose work—ranging from performance to collage to video—pays homage to the city in which he works. Cao Fei's Whose Utopia explores the lives and dreams of young Chinese workers who have moved from all parts of China to work in a German-owned factory in Guangzhou. -- www.walkerart.org
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