Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center

:"This page is about the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Walker Art Gallery is in Liverpool."The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art. It was founded in 1879 by lumberman Thomas Barlow Walker and was formally established at its current location in 1927 as the first public art gallery in the Upper Midwest. The museum's focus on modern art began in the 1940s, when a gift from Mrs. Gilbert Walker made possible the acquisition of works by important artists of the day, including sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, and others.

Campus

The Walker Art Center is on a 17 acre (69,000 m²) urban campus that includes both buildings and parks. The north wing of the building opened in 1971 and was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. In 2005 an expansion designed by Herzog & de Meuron opened that doubled the size of the museum and added new galleries, a restaurant and a 385-seat theater.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, a collaboration between the Walker and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, is a sculpture park on the north side of the Walker campus. The park opened in 1988 and was expanded in 1992 to its current size of 11 acres (44,500 m²).

Programs

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary institution that includes programming in visual arts, performing arts, and film and video, as well as educational and community programs, design and new media. Its collection includes work from artists such as Matthew Barney, David Bowes, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol.

See also

*Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
*List of NPN Partners

External links

* [http://walkerart.org/ Walker Art Center]
* [http://blogs.walkerart.org/ Blogs]
* [http://collections.walkerart.org/ Permanent Collection]
* [http://calendar.walkerart.org/ Events Calendar]
* [http://galeria.elarq.com/main.php?g2_itemId=51550 Architecture gallery]


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