Walker Art Center surveys radical shift in 20th Century art, film, and performance with Art Expanded, 1958-1978, opening June 2014

MINNEAPOLIS, March 12, 2014The Walker Art Center is thrilled to present Art Expanded, 19581978, drawn primarily from the Walkers diverse collection of artworks, films, archival materials, and ephemera, on view from June 14, 2014 through March 8, 2015. Charting the so-called expanded arts of the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition surveys a transformational phase in the history of 20th century art when artists around the world collectively began to challenge, critique, and upend traditional media and disciplines. This catalytic shift in attitude and practice, which remains vital for contemporary artists working today, led to a proliferation of new, hybrid art forms, such as happenings, event scores, intermedia performance, multiples, conceptual art, and participatory environments.

Some 300 works by over 100 pivotal artists, filmmakers, and choreographers will be presented, including Yoko Ono, Jasper Johns, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, George Brecht, Yayoi Kusama, Yvonne Rainer, Dieter Roth, and Tony Conrad. Iconic pieces by these and many others artists in the Walkers collection will come together with recent acquisitions, rarely seen works, and newly conserved sculptures. From room-based installations of objects and archival ephemera to an array of projected images and sound works, the exhibition will be organized into thematically groupings that occupy over 13,000 square feet in Galleries 1, 2, 3 and Perlman.

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