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A Think & A Drink
Friday, September 23
While the kids are away, the adults will play! Dig deeper with a tour of John Waters' Absentee Landlord for adults and a related activity for children in the Art Lab (ages 5 and older). Make the most of your membership with this all-inclusive date night at the Walker.

Free for Walker members; $10 per child / RSVP: 612.375.7655 or membership@walkerart.org

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Experience all the Walker has to offer. Take in free films, lectures, art-making activities, gallery talks, and more, including happy hour specials at Gather by D'Amico. more >>

Walker Shop's New Site

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Visit the totally revamped shop.walkerart.org for an ever-changing array of aesthetically advanced, hyper-tasteful, and often quite useful products. more >>

After decades of civil war, corruption, and economic turmoil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is producing tense and cathartic art with themes that are universal and deeply human. Join us for a weekend celebration of dance, music, and film, featuring a performance by choreographer Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako with pop guitarist Flamme Kapaya, and a documentary on Staff Benda Bilili, street musicians turned international sensations.

Four Score: Must-See Events

Special Event mnartists.org's Field Trip: Silverwood Park is the site for a day of art, music & creative play, with fort- and boat-building demos, giant parachutes to play with, an outdoor sculpture show, naturalist-led tours of this spectacular new park, and more. Saturday, September 24, 12-9 pm more >>		Exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870: From sex and celebrity to violence and surveillance, more than 150 photographs explore the ways the camera has brought to light the forbidden and the taboo. Final weeks! Closes September 18 more >>
Exhibition Baby Marx: What happens when a magic microwave oven bring Karl Marx and Adam Smith back to life? Making lofty and often distorted ideas about socialism and capitalism accessible to the masses, this ongoing project by artist Pedro Reyes brings together entertainment, ideology, and contemporary art. Now on view more >>		Film Series Richard Linklater: A Day in the Life: Slacker is 20 years old. Deal with that fact by taking in this retrospective of eight Linklater films that take place in a 24-hour period—including other contemporary classics like Dazed and Confused and Before Sunrise. September 24-October 14 more >>