Parents and caregivers with youngsters ages 2–5 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.

Walker Art Center premieres Ugly by ARENA Dances by Mathew Janczewski, featuring Morton Subotnick on October 18-20.

Frida Kahlo centennial exhibition at Walker Art Center goes beyond the myth to provide an intimate look at the artist's hauntingly beautiful paintings. Touring show includes 90 photographs from Kahlo's personal albums.

In conjunction with the Walker Art Center exhibition Frida Kahlo, which draws from some 30 private and institutional collections in the United States, Mexico, France, and Japan, the Walker and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) have assembled two exhibitions for presentation in 2008 at the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico City.

From November 1–16, the Walker Art Center presents the series Cinemateca, highlighting films from the Nuevo Cine Mexicano (New Mexican Cinema) movement.

Commissioned musical portraits from Heber Springs: Bill Frisell's Disfarmer Project Pairs New Work by Guitar Genius Frisell with portraits by outsider photographer Disfarmer presented at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Attention, young moviemakers! Young people ages 11–14 can learn how to shoot, direct, and publish their own film at the Walker Art Center's studio class D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself) Director, Saturdays, October 13, 20, and 27, 9 am–12 noon, in the Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab.

A day of family fun is stirring at Move Your World, the Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday event from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, October 6.

Some artworks offer escape: fanciful worlds, soothing aesthetics, images and ideas made to calm and comfort. Others nudge us to question and reflect on realities facing us as individuals and as a society. The latter definition of art guides the Walker Art Center exhibition Brave New Worlds, which considers the present state of political consciousness, expressed through the questions of how to live, experience, and dream.

The Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in October are highlighted by the panel discussion Brave New Art: Artists and Political Consciousness (October 4, 7 pm). Featuring a panel made up of artists from Brave New Worlds (opening October 4), exhibition curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond moderate the discussion about what constitutes a brave new world, and making art as an act of courage.

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.

Tunisian-born singer and oud (Arabic lute) virtuoso Dhafer Youssef's hypnotic, Sufi-inspired music connects the ancient with the modern, the East with the West in an enticing coalescence of culture. Youssef draws on the evocative sound of his Islamic heritage, combining it with new directions in European jazz and "a voice that could stop wars" (Songlines) to create timeless atmospheres of sound.