Dread Scott, one of the artists featured in the Walker Art Center‘s “Radical Presence” exhibition, has written an essay for the museum criticizing the actions of police in Ferguson, and looking at the cultural ramifications of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Scott says people are increasingly questioning the legitimacy of the police and other Read more →
Tonight marks the opening of “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” at the Walker Art Center, and the museum is calling it a groundbreaking survey of the last 50 years. Read more →
Sandy Spieler, artistic director of In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre and founder of the annual May Day Parade has won the McKnight Foundation’s prestigious Distinguished Artist Award for 2014. Read more →
Liquid Music curator Kate Nordstrum is excited about the third season of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new music concert series. “These works are all new projects, the vast majority of them created specifically for the series,” said Nordtrum who curates the SPCO’s successful new music program. She described the artists being presented as “powerhouses.” Read more →
“It’s really about bringing international visionaries to the Twin Cities,” Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither said of the season he is announcing today. Read more →
The Walker Art Center has announced this summer’s round of music and movies in the park, and the films all center on the theme of time Read more →
The Katonah Museum of Art, a small museum about an hour north of New York City, has hired Walker Art Center Chief Curator Darsie Alexander to be its next director. According to the KMA, she will assume her new role March 1. Under Alexander’s tenure, the Walker presented “Benches & Binoculars” and acquired the Merce Read more →
This morning the Walker Art Center returned one of the more sizable pieces in its contemporary art collection to its rightful place — outdoors.
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The Twin Cities has lost one its most generous arts supporters. Philanthropist Sage Cowles, the wife of the late John Cowles, died yesterday. She was 88. As a couple, Sage and John Cowles had a tremendous influence on the local arts scene. Through Sage, much of that generosity went to dance. Her legacy is reflected Read more →
Minnesota has lost the other half of one of its best known philanthropic couples. Sage Cowles, for whom the Sage Awards for Dance are named, died Thursday. Read more →
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