The Walker Art Center Performs its Permanent Collection

The Walker Art Center Performs its Permanent Collection

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 06 2.1.10

by Patricia Briggs
Although we all sometimes complain about the Walker Art Center—its lack of consideration of local artists, the dry tastes of its curators, the cost of admission— we are all nevertheless obviously its beneficiaries. I don’t always like Walker programming but I am always better for having visited. I use the Walker all of [...]

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Savage Edge:  Human/Animal in Roxanne Jackson’s Recent Work

Savage Edge: Human/Animal in Roxanne Jackson’s Recent Work

Written By: Patricia Briggs Constellation 05 11.23.09

Roxanne Jackson savors images of the “the kill,” the dead, and the undead in her exhibition “We Believe in Some thing,” recently on view in the  galleries of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.  Disturbing body dismemberments and monstrous hybrids signal the violence that polices the cultural categories “human” [...]

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Constellation 09

7.31.2010

Suspect Alternatives

Blame it on summer's unexpected turbulences, but we are back with our most journalistic efforts yet. Rather than criticism, we indulged our curiousities in search of the mysterious motivations that prompt people to found, run and maintain alternative art spaces.   More...

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