Walker Art Center Entertains Online
by Jennifer Dalton
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Kissing Is Fun
Cecily Barth Firestein
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The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is becoming known as one of the most cutting-edge arts institutions in the United States. The museum currently features an exhibition entirely on the web called Art Entertainment Network, in conjunction with Let's Entertain, a more traditional but unusually playful exhibition in its physical galleries.
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The physical exhibition Let's Entertain focuses on entertainment as a central force of contemporary culture--as the museum puts it, "the complex relationship between pleasure, spectacle, popular culture and contemporary art." The artworks on view incorporate disciplines from painting to video games, from sound to fashion.
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Laughter
Karen Langbauer
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The online exhibition Art Entertainment Network includes the bizarre, insightful and funny projects of many artists, several of whom specialize in projects designed specifically for the Internet. Many of these artists, such as Mark Amerika and Prema Murthy, are also showing in the prestigious Whitney Biennial exhibition, currently on view in New York City.
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Some of the highlights of this special show include Eric Zimmerman and Word.com's Sissyfight, an interactive game based on high school popularity wars, and Jenny Holzer's interactive Please Change Beliefs, where viewers can edit the word-based artwork to create their own. Even the front page of Art Entertainment Network is inventive, featuring fake advertisements and wrestling tips, and changing every time the user logs on.
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Where Do the Children Play
Lee M. Osborne, Jr.
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Lead Me Not Into Temptation, I Can Find the Way Myself
Cecily Barth Firestein
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Check it out at: http://aen.walkerart.org.
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