Visitors explore the sculpture Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in the Walker Art Center's sculpture garden (the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden) after its reopening in June 2017. CC BY-SA-ND 2.0.

Walker Art Center director Olga Viso discussing the Sculpture Garden installation “Scaffold.” Viso directed WAC from 2007 until 2017. Photograph by Lorie Schaull, May 31, 2017. CC BY-SA 4.0.

View of one of the Walker Art Center’s gallery spaces. Photograph by Flickr user Susan Mollerus, July 20, 2013. CC BY 2.0

An installation view of the exhibition “Absentee Landlord,” curated by John Waters for the Walker Art Center in 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mark B. Schlemmer on May 3, 2012. CC BY 2.0.

The modern and minimalistic exterior of the Walker’s Barnes building viewed against the Minneapolis skyline, June 1, 2009. The 2005 addition by Herzog & de Meuron is visible at right. Photograph by Flickr user Matt. CC BY-SA 2.0.

A crowd gathers on the Walker Art Center's campus for the International Cat Video Festival. Photograph by Flickr user Stacy Spensley, August 30, 2012. CC BY 2.0.

The Walker Art Center’s Cargill Lounge. Photograph by Wikimedia user Wac-pr, October 2, 2009. GNU free documentation license.

Martin Friedman, longtime Walker Art Center director, ca. 1980s. Friedman directed the Walker from 1961 until 1990 and helped shape its contemporary focus.

The Walker Art Center complex. Photograph by Steve Plattner, August 6, 1975..

Exterior façade of the Walker Art Center. Photograph by Robert Jacobson, ca. 1960s.