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All the World’s a Stage for Kehinde Wiley

July 17-October 26, 2008 The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational “The World Stage” series. Wiley is known for his stylized paintings of young, urban African-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century [...]

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The Spoonbridge and Cherry: Is Good Art?

By Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Photo: Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota is celebrating its 20th anniversary of its Sculpture Garden (with the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture). Most Twin Cities residents are so familiar with the Spoonbridge that they rarely discuss it as art - but is it art? City [...]

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Red Bull Illume Brings Best of Action and Adventure Sports to the Twin Cities

First-of-Its-Kind International Photo Exhibition Visits Iconic Stone Bridge July 10-20 MINNEAPOLIS, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Bull Illume -- the first-ever international action adventure sports photography competition -- made its Midwest debut in Minneapolis last night. The Stone Arch Bridge unveiling was witnessed by more than 2,000 spectators as twenty-five eight-by-eight foot cubes revealed...

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Becher, Sander, Hockney, CLUI, Goodreads

David Hockney — Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2 The Getty Museum I was in Los Angeles over the 4th of July weekend, and made a trip to the Getty Museum to see the photography exhibits including: Bernd and Hilla Becher - framework houses are subtle and cool. I wish the prints were bigger, but it’s [...]

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Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its Next Director

After two years of flux, the Dia Art Foundation said on Monday that it had hired a prominent contemporary-art curator, Philippe Vergne, deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as its director.

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Long-Haired Freaky People Need Not Apply

So there's a design-your-own-RNC-lawn-sign contest going on: Yard signs are as ubiquitous and familiar to the American political landscape as baby-kissing and stump speeches, combining catchy images and pithy campaign slogans to increase visibility for vying candidates and their parties’ messages. In honor of this election season, My Yard Our Message turns this tradition of political ephemera on

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Prices continue to soar as a Bacon earns £17.28 million at Christie's sale

The art market rolls on in a seemingly endless boom regardless of subject, period or medium. On Monday night Christie's sold 48 works of contemporary art for £86.24 million, or $171.87 million.

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Highbrow Mini Golf and Different Approaches to Public Art

Last week, on our way out of Minneapolis, we swung by the Walker Art Center and took a quick walk around one of its most recent additions, "Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf." Across… ... continue reading

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Ode to Vergne

It's not clear to me why the Walker Art Center hasn't issued any official statement about chief curator Philippe Vergne's departure for Dia Art Foundation (I hear they're leaving PR duties to Dia, but don't local audiences deserve some info?). So it's great to see the museum's Visual Art curators filling the gap with a nice tribute to Vergne .

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Queer Takes at the Walker

Queer Takes, a film festival taking place June 25-29 at the Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. For tickets and information, see walkerart.org. Hear an interview with Dean Otto at kfai.org. Twin Cities Daily Planet's Lydia Howell does an...

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Rock the Garden

In case you missed the fantastic Rock the Garden show at the Walker Art Center this weekend, here's a picture to make you feel worse. Bon Ivor, Cloud Cult, The New Pornographers and Andrew Bird performed during perfect weather and...

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New Dia Director Says the "Sky's the Limit"

The Dia Art Foundation announced the hire of a director yesterday; Philippe Vergne, will be joining Dia starting September 15th. Vergne co-curated the Whitney Biennial in 2006, and will be leaving his position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for the job. While Dia has one area of New York covered with a sprawling space in Beacon , their Chelsea space closed in 2004. Vergne's main challenge...

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Walker's curator leaving for NYC post

Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center, will be leaving the Minneapolis museum to accept a post in New York City.

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Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its Next Director

After two years of flux, the Dia Art Foundation said on Monday that it had hired a prominent contemporary-art curator, Philippe Vergne, deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as its director. NYT

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Oops! I Dia Again

Dia hires Philippe Vergne, chief curator at the Walker Art Center, as its director, less than one year after the organization hired Jeffrey Weiss, who resigned. [Read an interview with Weiss here.] Weiss left after nine months, saying that he...