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Walker Art Center Honors Trisha Brown's Career

The Walker Art Center, Northrop Dance Season, and the University of Minnesota Dance Program honor the work of Trisha Brown (b.1936), one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance, with an exhibition of her drawings and performance pieces; presentations of several early site-specific performance works; and an evening of dance.

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Women With Vision: Past/Present

During March, the Walker Art Center presents Women with Vision 2008: Past/Present, the 15th installment of this renowned film festival that annually celebrates the work of women directors, filmmakers, and artists. Sheryl Mousley, the Walker's film/video curator, often finds thematic threads connecting the films she selects.

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Walker Art Center Cinemateca Series

A reemergence of Latin American films on the international scene in recent years has resulted in a wealth of vivid, groundbreaking work. The Walker Art Center's Cinemateca film series continues its run of screenings on the last Friday of each month with a recent film from Cuba, Camila Guzmán Urzúa's The Sugar Curtain (El Telón de Azúcar), on Friday, February 29, 7:30 pm.

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Celebrate Moving Image At Walker Art Center

Families are invited to celebrate filmmaking and visionary women throughout the day at the Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday event Moving Media, from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, March 1.

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Architects Featured In Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes

The Walker Art Center series Drawn Here: Contemporary Design in Conversation continues in February and March with two architects featured in the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, premiering February 16–August 17.

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Richard Prince: Spiritual America

March tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Richard Prince: Spiritual America (opening March 22), a critical overview of the celebrated American artist’s work, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Walker Art Center Presents Theater Sensation Romeo Castellucci

Hey Girl! comes to the Walker Art Center's William and Nadine McGuire stage Thursday-Saturday, February 14–16, at 8 pm, and Sunday, February 17, at 7 pm. After directing the Theatre Arts Division of the 2005 Venice Biennale, Castellucci stands among Europe's most important performance artists and theater practitioners. His work has only rarely appeared in the United States.

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Walker Art Center's Worlds Away

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb and its catalytic role in the creation of new art, premieres at the Walker Art Center from February 16–August 17.

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Minnesota Artists Take Center Stage At Walker Art Center

Families are invited to come celebrate the work of Minnesota artists and mnartists.org, an online database of Minnesota artists and organizations from all disciplines, at the Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday event Minnesota-made on mnartists.org, from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, February 2.

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Walker Art Center Presents 'Expanding The Frame'

Through February 24, the Walker Art Center presents the series Expanding the Frame, a six-week showcase of established and emerging directors who are breaking the boundaries of film and video.

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Public Tours At Walker Art Center

February tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (opening February 16), featuring the work of 34 artists and architects who explore a variety of suburban conditions that challenge preconceived ideas and expectations about the contemporary American suburb.

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Walker Art Center Presents Karim Ainouz's Love For Sale

A reemergence of Latin American films on the international scene in recent years has resulted in a wealth of vivid, groundbreaking work. The Walker Art Center's Cinemateca film series begins its run of screenings on the last Friday of each month with a new, award-winning work from Brazil, Karim Aïnouz's Love for Sale: Suely in the Sky, on Friday, January 25, 7:30 pm.

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