This special explores Walker Art Center, a place where
everything comes together‹where paint meets pixels and
performance art. Interviews with museum scholars, choreographer/dancer
Bill T. Jones and artist Chuck Close reveal the important
international role the Walker plays as a creative catalyst
for artistic development in painting and sculpture,
performing arts, film and art education. Formally established
in 1879, the Walker Art Center began as the first public
art gallery in the Upper Midwest. The new Walker opened
in 2005, with a suite of new galleries, a refurbished
cinema, a state-of-the-art theater, and restaurants
and shop. It's the place where art meets life.
