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Skip to main content Walker Art Center Get Tickets Become a Member Search Visit Calendar Art & Artists Magazine Support Design Education Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Arts Walker News More Design Education Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Arts Art News From Elsewhere via vanityfair.com Art After Protest "On some blocks 'unity' reads like we got this, on others it sounds like calm down ." Poet Danez Smith offers a powerful meditation on the storefront art, and commerce, responding to the police murder of George Floyd. via dancemagazine.com Quarantine Dances "Limitations foster creativity." Courtney Escoyne looks at the best dance projects to come out of quarantine, including the Walker's Come On In , a digital counterpart to Faye Driscoll's first solo museum exhibition. via moma.org Masque-culotte and More In conversation with Ana Janevski, artist Simone Forti talks about how she's been occupying herself during pandemic, from making a series of paper-bag drawings to inventing the masque-culotte, a COVID mask made from underpants. via nytimes.com "Enough is Enough" LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ed Ruscha, and Carrie Mae Weems are among artists whose works will be presented publicly in battleground states ahead of election day as part of the new Enough of Trump initiative. via artnews.com Passings: Keith Sonnier Artist Keith Sonnier has died at age 78. Aiming to expand sculpture's boundaries, he used unconventional materials including fabric, foam, and neon lights "to psychologically evoke certain kinds of feelings." via artnet.com Repatriation in the Arts Acknowledging that its sits on Indigenous land, Yale Union, a decade-old art center in Portland, Oregon, has announced it will shut down and transfer ownership of its land and building to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. via brooklynrail.org Viral Media "There's something virus-like about social media, in the way it operates, in the way it taps into our physiology on a chemical level in our brain." Piotr Szyhalski on coronavirus, social media, and his daily COVID-19 Reports. via rollingstone.com Rock and Reparations "I believe everybody that is participating in the music industry today has an enormous debt to a lot of artists that were never paid." Wilco's Jeff Tweedy shares his proposals for a more equitable music industry. via artfuljaunts.com Better Monuments "I decided that rather than numbness, I'm just going to put my energy in the direction of what it is I'd like to see." Jeffrey Gibson on monuments and his new work at Socrates Sculpture Park, inspired by a pre-Columbian ziggurat. via nytimes.com Remembering Morricone "Dare we compare the five notes of his famous 'coyote call' in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with the four opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?" John Zorn on film composer Ennio Morricone, who died July 6 at 91. via mprnews.org Peace Garden Designed months before the police killing of George Floyd, Walker artist-in-residence Jordan Weber's urban agriculture project/art installation in North Minneapolis has become a space of healing and solace. via nytimes.com Passings: Milton Glaser Milton Glaser—the graphic designer behind iconic visuals including the 1977 "I ♥ NY" logo and a psychedelic poster included with Bob Dylan's 1967 greatest hits album—has passed away at age 91. via artspace.com A Black Presence Kerry James Marshall says his art doesn't address the idea of racism: "What I am doing is establishing a black presence that isn’t traumatically conditioned by its relationship to a practice or structure called racism.” via artnews.com Passings: Luther Price Experimental filmmaker Luther Price, whose films were screened at the Walker in 2013, has died at age 58. He is known for manipulating and distressing found footage celluloid to create haunting works. via kqed.org Artist Resistance Tools From KQED, "five artist-made tools that support protests on the ground, resist surveillance’s biased gaze, fight back against social alienation, and combat technologies imbued with anti-blackness." via parisreview.org Performing Whiteness "White folks, you must dig into your embodied racism, even—especially—if you think it’s not there." Sarah Bellamy, artistic director of St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre Company, on racism and the body. via latimes.com A Model for Reopening? After a "360-degree exercise" to analyze its practices, the Guggenheim Bilbao is among the first major museums to open since the coronavirus pandemic began. It may offer a template for US institutions as they move to reopen. via theartnewspaper.com What Has Changed? "The people have learned to write with fire and it is a language understood around the world." Dread Scott revisits his Artist Op-Ed from 2014 in light of global protests against police brutality. via time.com "Solace... not Hope" "This Black mother understands the fire," writes Titus Kaphar of his painting for TIME 's cover. "Black mothers understand despair. I can change NOTHING in this world, but in paint, I can realize her. This brings me solace…" via seitujonesstudio.com #Blues4George As murals honoring the life of George Floyd pop up across the Twin Cities and the world, artist Seitu Jones hopes to see even more: he's offering downloadable stencils to make memorial art on storefronts and streets everywhere. via mprnews.org Support Black Artists "The Twin Cities is home to numerous black-led arts organizations; typically such groups are chronically underfunded. Here’s a list of black-led arts organizations in the Twin Cities that could use your support." via artforum.com COVID and the Culture Economy “The field of nonprofit arts and culture is unlikely to return to its pre-Covid state for the foreseeable future, if ever.” A new report predicts the US arts and culture sector will lose $6.8 billion due to the pandemic. via dancemagazine.com Has Anyone Asked Artists What They Need? “Have you, institutions, organizations, studios, theaters, etc, taken a moment to call your artists and ask them what they need, so when you're ready to open back up, they are mentally, physically and emotionally ready as well?" via filmkrant.nl Post-Pandemic Film "Perhaps this current situation will breed a group of people who have developed an ability to stay in the present moment longer than others." Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers a speculative take on post-pandemic cinema. via onassis.org Not Another Quarantine Diary The ENTER project commissions artists like Emily Johnson, Annie Dorsen, and Radiohole to make new works over 120 hours from their homes to serve to help us "understand the present, to learn from it, to narrate and banish it." via nytimes.com Top Museum Sites During Pandemic "The truth is that a museum’s digital assets can’t duplicate its brick-and-mortar presence—and the best of them, the ones selected here, do not try." A look at the top museum websites during COVID-19 (including the Walker's). via frieze.com The Aesthetics of Zoom Many have opined over the years about "the false binary in the popular imagination between our offline and online lives. Now, the digital world is so dominant over the ‘real’ world that the distinction is become obsolete." via nytimes.com Walking LA During Pandemic "I want to see people walking our streets and not feel that their presence is somehow related to the world's falling apart." Geoff McFetridge—part of our 2013 Insights lectures—has created a meditation how pandemic has changed LA. via art-agenda.com The Online Exhibition "A successful space for people to come together right now should begin with what art institutions are already doing—online or offline—and making a space where these meet." Orit Gat on exhibitions in this online-only moment. via nytimes.com Passings: Bruce Baillie Known for lyrical landscape works, the San Francisco experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie—whose "technical tour de force" Castro Street is part of the of the Walker's Ruben/Bentson film collection—died April 10 at 88....