As is fitting for a series that has always brought provocative, exhilarating, unexpected theatrical experiences to the Twin Cities, Out There celebrates its 20th season by presenting four American ensembles new to the Walker Art Center and Minnesota—their breathtaking dance-theater and physical drama is helping point the way to the future of live performance art.

January tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg (opening January 12), featuring the work of the American photographer, comprising approximately 60 works that survey her 25-year career. Patrons can also take in a Frida Kahlo (closes January 20) gallery talk about the artist and her work on Friday, January 4, 6 pm.

The Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in January are highlighted by a Contemporary Art in Conversation talk with JoAnn Verburg (January 24, 7:30 pm), in conjunction with the new exhibition Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg (opening January 12).

With the Walker Art Center's popular exhibition Frida Kahlo closing on January 20, families can get one last look at the exhibition and learn more about what inspired the artist at the Free First Saturday event Finding Frida, from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, January 5.

More than 70 photographic portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, anchored by the diptychs and triptychs that have become St. Paul-based artist JoAnn Verburg's signature, will be on view at the Walker Art Center January 12–April 20.

Parents and caregivers with youngsters ages 3–5 have a fun way to find artistic inspiration with Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate, the popular Walker Art Center program designed to nurture creativity and engage a child's mind. Arty Pants programs, presented on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, feature art projects, films, gallery activities, and story readings.

Viva Nortec, la nueva frontera de la música! Made up of DJs, graphic artists, and filmmakers, Tijuana’s Nortec Collective delivers some of the freshest electro-ambient music in North America. Nortec Collective performs Saturday, December 8, at 8 pm in the Walker Art Center’s William and Nadine McGuire Theater.

The Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal wants to reconsider production, both artistically and economically, by creating immaterial and more sustainable forms of generating meaning and beauty. The solo exhibition Tino Sehgal will be on view at the Walker Art Center December 12, 2007–March 23, 2008.

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 to May 18, 2008.

Families can immerse themselves in the many elements of hip-hop at the Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday event Hip-Hop Hooray!, from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, December 1.

A special sneak-peek showcases the return of award-winning actor/playwright/director Danny Hoch, who continues his long association with the Walker Art Center (Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop; Hip-Hop Theater All Stars) with Taking Over, a series of enveloping monologues that looks at urban gentrification as a kind of neo-feudalism in the new millennium.

The 2007 British Television Advertising Awards program returns November 30–December 30 for another rousing run of screenings at the Walker Art Center, where last year more than 16,000 people saw the 2006 award-winning spots.